The largest animation and gaming studios from around the world choose Harmony to produce the highest quality animation, setting the standard for creative storytelling. Our all in one, end to end 2D animation software allows animators to create paperless and cut-out animation in every style
Harmony
Harmony Premium is designed for professional studios, freelancers, and educational institutions, providing the ultimate toolkit for creating high-quality animations. With advanced features like sophisticated cut-out rigging, lifelike character movements, and limitless special effects, it caters to any animation style. Offering an end-to-end solution, Harmony Premium integrates drawing, animation, rigging, compositing, and sound editing, making it the most comprehensive and versatile software for animators at all levels.
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Standard Features
Toon Boom Harmony is the worldwide standard for 2D animation productions; Harmony’s Drawing Engine helps our software stand out from the rest. For any animated project style, from clean and precise solid vector lines to organic textured bitmap lines, Harmony offers any creator an unparalleled assortment of advanced drawing tools. Seamlessly switch between brush to pencil, textured to solid or even from bitmap to vector with our powerful vectorization technology.
Harmony Brushes feel natural as you can access the most advanced features with our Dynamic Brushes, allowing you to customize your tips from a variety of parameters such as pressure, tilt or speed.
With Pencil lines, you have the ultimate freedom to change line thickness, tapper or texture after they have been drawn. Configure your desired transparency, import or create your line textures and draw those textures in real-time for both Brush and Pencil lines.
For the best possible results, no matter your level of expertise, Harmony lets you smooth or dynamically stabilize your lines as well as guide your drawings with rulers and perspective guides.
Take advantage of Harmony’s art layers (up to 4 in each drawing) to separate your lines from your colors or create sub-layers for a multitude of functions. No other animation software will give you this many options while working natively in vector and/or in bitmap!
When it comes time to Ink or Paint a multitude of assets for any project size, what you need is a system that will let you manage your color swatches and palettes effectively from a central place. Harmony allows you to create palettes populated with an unlimited number of swatches which can be vector or bitmap colors depending on your preference.
Each swatch is attributed a unique ID making it extremely easy to update or dynamically change for your animation and compositing needs. Want to change a character’s colors based on different lighting situations?
The colors on your already traditionally animated asset are not quite right? Harmony’s color management system will let you change those non-destructively in no time and share those changes across your entire production line.
While Harmony is used to produce 2D animated content, it has a full 3D environment allowing you to manipulate your assets on all axes simultaneously. Its native camera can be placed and animated in 3D giving us a sense of depth, effortless parallax effects that are accurate and the ability to navigate around imported 3D objects.
Bring in FBX, OBJ or Alembic files from any 3D software and animate them alongside your 2D elements. Preview your render directly in Harmony’s Camera View (this feature requires Autodesk Maya). Once done export your asset or camera animations to your desired packages and enjoy the magic of integration!
Polishing up your animation project can often be a challenge especially when you need to wait for animation to be complete before sending it to post-production for effects. With Harmony’s non-destructive pipeline you can add Effects by attaching them directly onto your rigs whether or not you are working with puppets. Thanks to the Node View where everything you create in Harmony is represented by a Node, you can attach, erase, exchange, group or modify any effect on any Node. Simply select your desired effect from the extensive Node Library and drag it over. Create groups of nodes as templates, save them to share with your team and reuse them whenever you need them.
In each Node you can access a myriad of param- eters making the possibilities practically limitless. Animate each parameter in time to show dynamic effects such as Light or Surface Shading, Particles or Color Manipulation. Try our camera lens effects such as the new Bokeh Node which, with Harmony’s Floating Point rendering system, will make your production more visually appealing than ever before with greater levels of quality.
It is often said that sound and music bring animation productions to life. In Harmony you don’t have to work in isolation. Bring in as many tracks as you need from any of the most widely used audio formats. Use audio to sync with your animated content but most importantly use voice tracks to lip-sync your characters. Harmony’s automated lip-synching technology will allow you to detect phonemes from any language, map your custom drawings to the track and voila! Re-versioning has never been easier and even manual synchronization is a walk in the park at any stage of your character’s animation process.
NEW Features
Three symmetry drawing guides have been added to Harmony 24. Vertical Symmetry, Horizontal Symmetry and Dual Axis. When active, the symmetry guides mirror the strokes drawn by the artist by duplicating it on the other side of the guide. For example, using the Vertical Symmetry guide allows artists to quickly draw characters without having to draw both sides.
The Pencil tool has been improved to support opacity variations on lines as they are drawn. Artists control the amount of transparency on lines by applying more or less pressure on their stylus, giving them more control over the look of their drawings. The resulting pencil lines have a more natural look, while still retaining the ability to be easily reshaped using the contour editor in the cleanup phase.
Drawing tools have been overhauled to allow artists to draw and modify drawings layers that have any orientation. Prior to this change, drawing tools would not work if the viewing angle was more than 5°. Now, drawing tools can be used on drawing layers regardless of the viewing angle, allowing artists to quickly sketch and add details without interruption and in context of the scene.
Rendering of 3D models using external applications such as Maya is now faster and more efficient when working in Harmony. This has been achieved by improving the communication between Harmony and the external application. It is now also possible to cache and keep the rendered frames from the external application in the Harmony scene to prevent re-rendering already rendered frames.
Pricing for Everyone.
Seeing is believing. Toon Boom offers creatives the opportunity to test drive Storyboard Pro for 21 days free of charge. You can experience first hand how Storyboard Pro can help pull together your next 2D or 3D animation project, your next live action series or your next video game.
System Requirements
An Internet connection is required to activate the software. Storyboard Pro 20 also supports Blackmagic Design playback devices when using cached playback. For a full list of improvements and new features, please see our detailed Storyboard Pro 20 release notes. System requirements can be updated or changed without notice.
Windows 11
- Windows 10 (64-bit)
macOS- macOS 14.5 (Sonoma)
- macOS 13.6.7 (Ventura)
- macOS 12.7.3 (Monterey)
| Hardware | Recommended | Minimum |
|---|---|---|
| Processor (Windows) | Intel Core i7, Xeon or better | Intel Core i5 |
| Processor (macOS) | ARM-Based Apple silicon processor or Intel Core i7, Xeon or better | Intel Core i5 |
| Memory | 32 GB | 8 GB |
| Monitor4K monitors with scaling up to 200% supported (Windows)Retina display supported (macOS) | 1920 x 1080 | 1280 x 800 |
| Video Card (Windows) | NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 (Recommended), NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3070 (Best) Vulkan 1.1 support required for optimized 3D model display. | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 |
| Video Card (macOS) | Radeon Pro 560 (Recommended) Radeon Pro Vega 64 (Best) Vulkan 1.1 support required for optimized 3D model display. | Intel HD Graphics 630 |
| Drawing Tablet | Wacom Intuos Pro or Cintiq | Wacom Intuos or Bamboo |
| Disk Space (Windows) | 1.30 GB | |
| Disk Space (macOS) | 2.5 GB |
