Following up on last week’s Tip of the Week series Rigging a Head in Animate Pro or Harmony animation tutorials our resident expert and Professional Product Manager, Lilly Vogelesang, will continue to explain the best and most efficient way to Rig a Character’s Head in our professional software. This process will work equally well in Toon Boom Animate Pro and Harmony.
Did you watch the first two rigging videos? You can see them by clicking here Week 1 Rigging a head in Animate Pro or Harmony
So get comfortable, watch the video and learn how to experience a better way to more efficient and satisfying animation, with our Tip of the Week.
Week 2 of Rigging a Head in Animate Pro or Harmony
There are three videos:-
PART1 – Rigging a Head in Animate Pro or Harmony
In the first video which lasts around six and a half minutes, Lilly uses an avatar of herself to discuss:- preparing your Artwork; The rest of this video deals with how to work with the nose using underlay layers.
Part 2 – Rigging a Head in Animate Pro or Harmony
In the second part which lasts 11 minutes , Lilly will continue by explaining:- How you can rig the eyes; How to add a Peg to the drawings; She will then go on to discuss Using a Pass-Through composite to gather drawing layers together; You will find out about Cutting the facial features off with the face; As the video continues you will learn about Adding the Layer Properties as a docked window; Animating the Facial Features with peg hierarchies; and finally, you will learn about Grouping together the eye and eyebrow under a peg.
Part 3- Rigging a Head in Animate Pro or Harmony
In the final part of the tutorial,which lasts 9 minutes and 21 seconds, Lilly concludes the videos by explaining:- How to prepare the nose; Cutting off the front part of the nose with the back part; Animating the nose off the face; Rigging the eyebrow; and some examples of head rigs on other characters.
More Animation Resources from Toon Boom
When you have watched our latest Tips of the Week we have much more for you to learn about. Make use of these great animation resources to become the very best.
Visit our Toon Boom Tips Channel on YouTube and watch all of the Tips of the Week.
Become a better animator by visiting our Toon Boom Professional Animating Resources:
- Producing a 3DStereoscopic Project – Turn your project into a 3D Stereoscopic animation. Instructions and material.
- Templates – Professional-quality templates for Animate, Animate Pro and Harmony, everything from Sunrises to Particle Effects.
- Video Tutorials – Expert animation tutorials to help you begin and then progress to the highest level of animation expertise.
- Community Video Tutorials - These in-depth animation tutorials are created by some of Toom Boom’s industry power users.
- Visit our User Forums - We answer your questions. Work with other users and our experts to get answers to your animation and storyboarding questions.
