![]() ![]() A Stylish Journey: To mark the release of Harmony 22 and Storyboard Pro 22, Toon Boom commissioned Mercury Filmworks to produce the short film ‘The Duke’s Game’ by Shane Plante. The new audio levels monitor is essential for working with both scratch audio and final sound, to prevent audio clipping and more easily ensure consistent levels across a project. Native support for Apple ProRes codecs allows for consistency across macOS and Windows, and allows for rendering in high resolution without memory limitations. Improvements to conformation allow editors and directors to more accurately track scenes in their editing software and bring changes, including to camera movements and timeline markers, back into Storyboard Pro. Meanwhile, updates in Storyboard Pro 22 bring improvements to conformation with non-linear editing software, native Apple ProRes support and new quality-of-life features, such as an audio levels monitor for creating animatics with sound. With a built-in multiplane camera and support for 3D assets, Storyboard Pro can be used on any production, whether 2D, 3D, hybrid or live action. With the same industry-leading drawing tools found in Harmony, Storyboard Pro provides artists with the flexibility to sketch scenes quickly and efficiently using shorthand or draw precise, on-model poses when needed. Storyboard Pro 22: Where Every Great Story Beginsįrom seamless integration with screenwriting tools, to drawing thumbnails, revising storyboards or timing an animatic with camera movement and sound, Storyboard Pro allows creatives to get content off the ground quickly and easily. ![]() The Duke’s Game – Mouse and Nitro face off. The animate pencil texture effect node allows artists to quickly add line boil to textured vector lines, and the new bokeh blur effect allows independent artists, as well as compositing teams of all sizes, to bring cinematic effects to their projects. Python scripts can now run from Harmony’s own Python Console to access and manipulate scene data, which provide technical directors with more flexibility when developing workflows tailored to their production’s needs. Rendering operations are now performed using 32-bit floating point values, which not only enable native support for HDR color and brightness values but also improve precision and performance on heavy scenes. Harmony 22 Premium introduces new features for artists and studios alike, including full support for HDR pipelines, improved support for Python scripting, as well as new effects for animators and compositing artists. Industry artists recognize that Harmony’s industry-leading drawing engine and workflow tools provide the flexibility to produce animation in any style with organic bitmap brushes, precise vector lines, a robust color management system, an easy-to-use 3D stage and multiplane camera system, as well as tools for both traditional animation and rigged characters - while always offering artists the freedom to seamlessly draw special poses when needed for a scene. A benefit of using a consistent set of tools throughout the production process is that revisions can be made at any point, without needing to import and export scenes or compromise in quality along the way. Industry artists rely on Harmony Premium’s tools and workflows at every step of the production process, from roughs to ink-and-paint as well as 2D rigged characters and compositing. ![]() The Duke’s Game Harmony 22: Creating Worlds of 2D Animation Just in time for the busy fall season, Montreal-based software powerhouse Toon Boom has released the 22 version of its standard-setting Harmony and Storyboard Pro tools which promise to expand the possibilities of visual storytelling while giving artists more control and freedom of ease. ***This article originally appeared in the November ’22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. ![]()
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