Toon Boom Harmony Tutorial: Easy Shading

[@iztdm]

Oooo, thanks for the tip! I have an animated short I've been working on, and so far I've been using a blend node + cutter to do the shading on characters & environments, but this looks better. It will definitely streamline my process!

[@GabyDomingos]

It took a while for me to make it work, but totally worth it! thank you so much!!

[@chumcool]

I went into Toon Boom with the notion and the suggestions and encouragement from close colleagues and friends that it was going to be a friendly program with a quick and simple nonabrasive learning curve. One year later....And... It is still the single most difficult app I have ever encountered in my 25+ years in the industry. In between tutorials and crash courses and hands on physical class labs for Toon Boom, I picked up NUKE Software on a whim and began teaching myself without any outside help in an attempt counter to the TOON BOOM Chaos. In that exact same year later, I have mastered NUKE completely down to a surgical science and have made money with it doing only compositing. TOON BOOM... still trying to figure out how to do a simple shade blend between two similar colors all while shoveling out subscription fees. I will not give up, I will master it. At least NUKE's Node workflow has a stability about it. Toon Boom is literally a guessing game inside of a labyrinth made of mirrors at the threshold of the "Hellraiser" puzzle box. Or... maybe I had a stroke along the way.

[@DMRMRT_TR]

Awesome thanks

[@lunaminstrel]

Oh my god you saved me! I can’t thank you enough for this video!

[@thedarkone5459]

I've been watching you for years and I feel like everytime I think I got a handle of toonboom you teach me something new. Now I will be implementing this in my normal routine. Thanks a bunch Onion skin. Sorry I am super poor but I definitely will find some way to pay you back in the future. Have good day/year bro. Keep up the fantastic work

[@AlphaProto]

This is useful.

[@TMJBtv]

This is so helpful thankyou!

[@jakeinaflannel]

Quick and easy to use video, thanks a ton!

[@hadjustoart8195]

BRO THANK YOU! YOU SAVE ME!

[@YusafAnimations]

Awesome

[@BIANCADANIELAMORDENO]

nice video!

[@AntFaiellaArt]

First off, thanks for the tutorial. This is very helpful, and just what I needed for my upcoming animation. And 2nd, why does the background music sound so familiar?

[@danevans4747]

That was fast, thanks for the tip

[@jonathanhanson3416]

You da man! Thanks for making videos and thanks for being you :)

[@cloudy07e]

is there any way I can apply this effect to a certain number of frames? not to every frame

[@douyin55]

Hey can you help me pls my toon boom Harmon 21 I draw but not drawing what can I do pls help me or I close the side view and other window from toon boom Harmon it closed automatically exited what I can do pls help me pls fast reply

[@chJohnJobs]

funny enough i can do this exact trick in Clip studio just havimg a duped layer and clip it then set the dup to a multiply Layer instead

[@Rav3nS]

is there a way to do this with parent pegs? you see I have a character rig and all of it is attached to a ultimately 1 parent peg for "full body" so would I need to just add this effect to each non peg

[@stargazer162]

Is there a way to exclude specific colors from being shaded?

[@K0T-Obormot]

how to make it shake like in the beginning?

[@aplanebagel]

which version of harmony lets you do this? :) thanks

[@mahaharth7398]

Hi ,can you help me please?! 😢😢😢 I came from Adobe Animate, I faced a lot of problems, such as when I make an animation inside the symbol. I bring it to timeline..it reaches a specific frame and stops, although inside the symbol there are frames that did not appear in timeline itself

[@brittanymanns961]

Is nodes a premium thing? Because I can't find it and only have essetials as thats all I can afford.

[@OnionSkin]

Afraid so. Some of these effects can be found however in the timeline view instead though! New layer > Effects

[@MsAblaikhan]

Tell me please! Does toon boom harmony work on macbook m1 pro? Thank you!

[@OnionSkin]

Don’t take it from me but I believe a patch was recently released to give it support for M1 macs

[@estellemus7180]

i hate that im broke

[@heiltotheking]

the headache i get with the nodes is unbelievable. i copy the node setup exactly but my drawing vanishes in render view. I've been fighting with the shading for a week now.

[@OnionSkin]

Join my Discord server and post a screenshot so we can help you out!

[@heiltotheking]

@@OnionSkin did :) I hope i explained it clearly enough!