What you'll learn in just over a month
The first week is all about getting you quickly up to speed and applying your animation principles within the software. You'll learn all about pegs and controlling movement, how to create natural arcs and finish with a polished shot in no time!
Week 2 takes you into the wonderful world of deformers using slightly more complex techniques such as overlap and follow through. By the end of this week, you'll understand how rigs move in real productions and have your first rig-driven animation.
Combine principles with production techniques to animate a prop rig. This week teaches more complex ideas like how we attach and detach elements to a rig, scene interaction and layered deformers.
Time to bring a character to life! Using a full rig, you'll block poses, animate body movement and sync the mouth shapes to the dialogue. Add emotional nuance and polish to create a short acting shot that really shows off your skills.
The final week counts as extra time to finish off your character animation scene, as it's not a quick process! Submit your shot for a personalised mini review and receive your well-earned certificate. This final week ensures you finish strong with a refined showreel piece to share.
✔️ 5 weeks of online training curriculum (lifetime access)
✔️ 40 day license of Toon Boom Harmony Premium (£135 value)
✔️ 1 x bookable one-to-one tutor call (£99 value)
✔️ Mini review of your final project (£65 value)
✔️ Support and feedback via our private Discord (lifetime access)
✔️ Rigs and scene files to download and keep
✔️ Certificate upon completion for your C.V / LinkedIn
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Course tutor
Manchester, U.K.
With over 16 years of professional experience in the animation industry, Adam was also the UK's first certified Toon Boom expert. He's worked in TV and film, both as a hand-drawn and cut-out animator, as well as teaching in higher education and as an artist-in-residence. He started the Academy in 2017 and since then has trained thousands of creative folk how to rig and animate in Toon Boom Harmony.
This course focuses on the popular 2D cut-out rigged style. This course does not teach the process of pure hand-drawn animation.
The main aims of the course are to teach you how to apply the principles of animation within the software, mastering the mechanics of movements and applying your skills to full character rigs. The final project is a short acting scene, demonstrating your understanding of the software and the animation principles. There is a chance to produce several demo reel pieces from the tasks you'll be given.
This course runs for 5 weeks from the start date. I will provide feedback on your final project up to 8 weeks from the start date.
No! Our buy once courses include lifetime access to the curriculum and all future updates.
The whole course has been designed to be as flexible as possible, so everyone can take part, no matter where in the world you live.
There is a live group call in week 5, which will normally be on a Tuesday evening UK time. Details provided at the start of each course.
We suggest a minimum of 2-4 hours a week although this really depends on your experience.
The longer you have, the more you can practice. Ideally setting aside half a day and an evening or two will give you lots of time each week to build your rig without time pressure.
You can also progress faster through certain parts of the course, if you have a chunk of free time. We've had former students complete a 5 week course in 2 weeks when they've studied full time! So again, it's very much flexible to your personal situation.
You'll be given specific instructions on how to send over your final project, and in return I'll give you personalised review. This will be via a recorded video on screen with your project and my thoughts as well as steps I'd suggest for your continued development.