![]() For instance, if I am teaching, I am not going to show anyone Harmony Premium’s Node View for probably the first day or two. ![]() Tutorials can be intimidating I find so you need to ease students into the program. Can you make something like that for us?” Tony: I saw that Toon Boom Harmony Premium’s trial is 21-days, so I thought, “why don’t I make a 21-day bootcamp?” What I love about Toon Boom is that you guys are big enough to be awesome but you’re small enough to listen. Toon Boom’s Head of Marketing, Stephanie Quinn, reached out and said: “We saw your bootcamp. ![]() What is in the new on-demand course and what are some of the techniques you cover? Toon Boom Animation’s Montreal office served as inspiration for the scene. I would like to take credit for the bitmap backgrounds, mostly, but I would say that the character design was a team effort from all of us.Ĭhris Cartledge and Lamont Russ were responsible for backgrounds. I’ve done 2D animation, character design, all of that stuff, but I’m strongest at creating backgrounds, so that’s where I placed myself. We also handled a little bit of the character design with a couple of other artists that we had on board. ![]() My role on this project was to handle the background artwork. He has been teaching me for a very long time and I’ve been driving him crazy for just as long. It was interesting to get on Toon Boom Harmony because it was the first program that I got that functioned like traditional hand drawn animation.Īlso, Tony was my teacher too, so we go way back. Over the years, for animation, we switched to programs that were a lot easier and it made our pipeline become more streamlined. So I learned the very old school way of doing it and I actually worked in studios doing the traditional stuff. When I started, we were still doing 2D animation by hand on pegs. I started out with Adult Swim and Cartoon Network as a 2D animator, and a background painter on multiple shows from those networks. Lamont: I have been working in the entertainment industry since about 2007. But I think my gift, and curse, is that my background is in teaching. I’ve done some little one-offs for clients here and there. I’ve technically never worked on a production. You’re not having to trick the program into doing something. What I love about the software is that it allows you to animate. My relationship with Toon Boom has been a little over ten years now. My relationship with animation has been a long one. I learned Photoshop when it didn’t even have layers. I’ve been teaching computer graphics and animation software for around two decades. Please introduce yourselves, your history in animation, and your role on this project. Tony Ross and Chris Cartledge developing the storyboards for the tutorial scene in You Can Animate in Harmony. This is a transcript adapted from our livestream interview, which you can watch in its entirety on Toon Boom’s YouTube channel. We invited Tony Ross and Lamont Russ to discuss the work that went into creating the tutorial series, the design process behind C-Note, as well as their advice to artists who are just starting out in animation. The star of the show is a cartoon cat, named C-Note, who helps guide artists and animators through the ins-and-outs of animating a cutout character over the course of 21 days. Now available on The Animation Study, the self-directed tutorial series, You Can Animate in Harmony, covers the industry-leading software’s drawing tools, as well as rigging, animating with pegs and deformers, the basics of cutout animation, and working with Harmony’s multiplane camera. How quickly can artists learn how to animate cutout characters? To find out, Toon Boom Animation commissioned Tony Ross and the Tony Teach team to develop training materials designed to quickly get artists up to speed in Harmony Premium.
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