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Rig Your 1st Character In Toon Boom Harmony (FOR BEGINNERS)
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Rig Your 1st Character In Toon Boom Harmony (FOR BEGINNERS)

In order to lend a helping hand to beginner 2D riggers like yourself, I have put together, easy-to-follow tutorial video
Created byElvis Wairia Kagwe
Last updated 8/2025
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What you'll learn

  • Learn how to rig a character's full body!
  • Learn what designs are needed when preparing a character for rigging in 2D Animation!
  • Learn how to use the drawing substitutions, deformation tools and the Node view, to rig a character in Toon Boom Harmony!
  • Learn how to rig a TV production quality Toon Boom Harmony rig!

Course content

5 sections • 11 lectures • 8h 52m total length

  • Body Rigging Part I1:00:39

    Learn to build a basic rig in Toon Boom Harmony, including setting up a color palette, reference image, pivot guides, and master controllers, with lip sync basics and scene setup.

  • Body Rigging Part II1:00:12

    Learn to organize and build a Toon Boom Harmony head rig for beginners, including auto-patch, composites, pegs, masking with cutters, and detailing eyes, ears, nose, and hair.

  • Body Rigging Part 358:02

    Build the torso and head rig in Toon Boom Harmony, using front and back shirt pieces, collar, and peg hierarchies for the neck and arms, with masking.

  • Body Rigging Part 41:05:19

    Learn arm rigging in Toon Boom Harmony by placing pivot points across the arm and hand with guides and autopatch, then set up hips, shorts, and legs with pegs.

  • Body Rigging Part 51:07:36

    Master Toon Boom Harmony rigging by adding deformers to a cutout character, using display nodes and drawing substitutions, then cloning and flipping parts for a lightweight setup.

Requirements

  • Some basic prior knowledge of Toon Boom Harmony is needed. Watch my Introduction to Toon Boom Harmony First, to know your way around the software, then watch this.
  • A Toon Boom license (There's a 28 day free trial for 1st time users ), A laptop (That meets Toon Boom's hardware requirement) Check there website for this information) and finally, a simple drawing tablet

Description

Rigging your 1st character in Toon boom Harmony can be intimidating at 1st. Finding properly made, step by step, and affordable learning material is another challenge.

In order to lend a helping hand to beginner 2D riggers like yourself, I have put together, easy-to-follow tutorial videos that are around 8hrs and 53min long and are beginner friendly, in order to equip you with the required set of skills and knowledge to rig a production level character in Toon boom.

Just make sure that you already know your way around the software. Make sure to watch my beginner's guide to Toon boom Harmony on Udemy.


What you get with the course:


  • -11 detailed videos on how to rig a basic character in Toon Boom Harmony.

  • -The rig made in the videos will be free to download (The Toon Boom file contains all the sketches and designs).

  • -All videos have been captioned, for clarity.


This class is suitable for beginner and intermediate riggers/animators, who are still learning how to use Toon Boom Harmony or people who are already experienced animators who want to move to/learn a different animation software. Toonboom Harmony is used on most 2D animated productions worldwide, so knowing how to use the software will be a huge asset to your career in the animation industry.

Just make sure to have the latest version of Toonboom Harmony (First time users of the software get a 28 day free trial), a PC/Laptop and a drawing tablet (a mouse is acceptable for this course, but for future courses, a simple drawing tablet will come in handy)

Who this course is for:

  • Rigging your 1st character in Toon boom Harmony can be intimidating at 1st. Finding properly made, step by step, and affordable learning material is another challenge. In order to lend a helping hand to beginner 2D riggers like yourself, I have put together, easy-to-follow tutorial videos that are around 12hrs long and are beginner friendly, in order to equip you with the required set of skills and knowledge to rig a production level character in Toon boom. Just make sure that you already know your way around the software. Make sure to watch my beginner's guide to Toon boom Harmony on Udemy. In case anything is not clear, please feel free to private message me. THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT!

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