#toonboom tutorial

[littledigits]

HELLO EVERYONE

Tomorrow is lesson 2 to my toonboom classes. To those of you who didnt need the refresher lesson one this is great to start. Its all focusing on clean posing workflow and tips/tricks I use to keep my keys clean and consistent! It starts at 1PM EST on my twitch channel.

HOWEVER here is a you tube channel for anyone who cant make it, and I will be storing all my lessons here moving forward. My streams are a lil jenky but I hope you can learn something from them

Littledigits Tutorials

Hey. I'm Meg/littledigits. I like to teach toonboom ! This is a place for me to upload my tutorial streams. They are unedited and streamed o

We will be using the SMILEZ rig which is great! you can download and follow along if you like

Smilez - Beginner Toon Boom Harmony Rig

UPDATE!!!Since there has been so much support and feedback for Smilez i've given him a bit of a face lift! so SMILEZ V02 is here! It's been

[somecynicalanimator]

Module - Specialist Animation Studies

I took part in another ToonBoom lecture in which we covered basic lip syncing, using this template from ToonBoom’s website. We then used a sound clip from 11 Second Club to begin animating.

I imported the image into Harmony as a ToonBoom Bitmap Drawing, then used the Cutter tool to create Drawing Substitutions out of the images. Turning on Safe Area overlay, I was able to create a marker highlighting the middle of the drawing area. I then started placing the mouths in the middle of the image, as the pivot point from the original image was still present in all the cut outs I made, with each cut out being in a different place in relation to the pivot points that they all share between key-frames.

Link to Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/397456149

We were shown how to set a Lip Sync Map (Right-click on the audio once it’s imported), and how to Auto-Lip Sync. However, the auto-lip sync wouldn’t work for me, so I tried to do it manually. Using a sheet of mouth shapes and matching sounds I tried animating the segment myself. I found that the lip sync set didn’t have the right mouths I wanted for each syllables of the words in the audio piece, and the character talks very fast in the clip I chose, but I made an honest attempt at animating it anyway. I think these skills will be very useful for my research project, given the importance mouths play in facial expressions, especially when talking.

[littledigits]

Uploaded the stream I did today on youtube! I'm a pretty low key person so I dont do anything too fancy but you can keep an eye out for the rest of the streams im going to be doing for the next 3 months here.

[littledigits]

TOONBOOM TUTORIALS for you - for frees

ok so , tumblr .. I need your help. Well ill post this other places too because I really want to make this accessible but

one of my goals for this year is to film toonboom harmony tutorials - I’ve worked with the program for years and have taught it for a year in a college as well. There are tutorials out there but as an animator that likes more of a traditional look I find theyre a bit limiting in what you can do with the damn thing. 

here are some examples of the stuff i’ve done on my own in harmony with rigs ive made myself

1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5  and heres my resume - I’ve worked in animation for awhile and I love sharing tips and tricks and help people get past the technical parts so they can start experimenting and having fun. 

THIS IS MY PROBLEM : where the HELL do I start.... 

Theres a lot to the program , and I could start at the very beginning and go through the different things and show how to do camera moves and..show what z’d depth is and how to use drawing mode and all of that. But then part of me goes - wait , well , I’m best at animation so maybe I should just skip that part and go to animation stuff. I’m not quite sure how long or short I should make them.

so this is where I need your help

What would - YOU - prefer ? 

It would help me AMAZINGLY if I could get some feedback on what people would like. Wether they prefer long tutorials of me animating whole scenes, or shorter ones based on easier questions to answer like ( how do you handle doing head turns ) or something. OR BOTH. I want to know where I can be of the most help since I dont want to add to a whole sea of tutorials that may already be out there :) I want to fill in the gaps ! .  Animation with rigs is mostly what I want to focus on though so ..if you ask me questions about composting and lighting I wont be able to provide that. But you can also suggest things about animation in general...thats always a possibility regardless if its toonboom or not ! 

I also would like to know if a monthly poll would be good - I want to do at least one tutorial a month ( although it will probably be more if they’re not long ) , if so everyone can vote on what idea they think is the most useful at the time. So my tutorials will always be driven by what most people would like to see. But thats just an idea !  ( if thats the case i would start a new toonboom specific tumblr as well ) 

If you could respond to this or send me a message with your thoughts It will help a lot. Its really something I want to do for 2016 and share my knowledge as much as I can :) !