Toon Boom Harmony Rigging Tutorial for Beginners (PART 3)

In this tutorial, we will go over how to create our own character rig from scratch in Toon Boom Harmony, even if you've never made a puppet rig before! By the end of this tutorial, you will understand how to split your character up into parts, how to navigate the node view, and how to rig a character for your animations! This tutorial, to an extent, requires Toon Boom Harmony Premium, which gives you access to the node view. You can create character rigs without the node view, but they will be a lot more simple, and less easy to organize. I highly recommend having Toon Boom Harmony Premium to follow along with this tutorial. Character rigs, or animation puppets, are used in lots of modern animated shows like Rick and Morty, Family Guy, and South Park. Most of the television productions I have worked on have used Toon Boom Harmony Premium for their animation software, and most often it has been puppet rig animation. I feel it's important to know how to create your own character rig for animation before animating with a puppet rig! We will be going over how to animate our character rig in the next part! As always, let me know if you have any questions, want to show off what you're working, or want to talk about your ideas for your own animation, share them in the comments section below! Chapters: 0:00:00 - Introduction 0:01:58 - How To Import Your Drawing 0:02:58 - Create the Body Parts 0:06:30 - Seamless Joints (Tip) 0:09:43 - How To Duplicate Body Parts (Tip) 0:13:37 - Adding Pegs to Layers 0:18:05 - THE NODE VIEW 0:26:46 - Setting Up Our Character's Node View 0:33:37 - Auto Patch Node (Tip) 0:36:11 - Cutter Node a.k.a. Mask (Tip) 0:38:28 - Parenting Body Parts 0:45:52 - Rigging The Head 0:59:46 - Rigging Hands 1:05:17 - Rigging Basic Deformers 1:00:00 - Envelope Deformers 1:15:11 - Final Rig