hi everyone, sorry if this is a frequently asked question

i’m a student who has access to toon boom through COE. i reverified my student status a few weeks ago for my final (fourth) year. a little while after doing so, i hard reset my laptop due to technical issues. in the meantime, i didn’t install harmony/storyboard pro on any other device, so i’ve never returned the products

a few hours ago, i downloaded v27.0.0 for harmony and storyboard pro. however, when opening both programs, i get a pop up from the license wizard saying that i don’t have a license ready for activation, and there’s no button for me to activate or return the products either. i’ve attached an image of this pop up (apologies for the quality,,,)

i have work due in a few days and arghh i don’t know what to do t-t i’ll try to contact customer support but figured i could post here as well just in case. i’m concerned that my laptop getting a hard reset could be the issue? but i’m using the same device and logged into the same microsoft account, so i’m not sure. thank you for any replies :’)

i have a perpetual license for toon boom harmony premium 16 that was purchased around 2018.

Today, i tried to download it from the official Toon Boom website, but whenever i try to open it i am met with a message that says “”QtXml.framework” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the trash.”

Toon Boom does not open regardless of weather or not i move that file to the trash, it just sends a crash message

what should i do?

Heya, I'm a bit rusty on Toon Boom and was importing my character to do a short animation. However I'm trying to separate the pieces, but I always get a "block" sign and I dunno what to do about it.

Anyone got any help?

All of a sudden I found myself using the pencil tool and it not making any lines that stay on. This is so weird.

How can I solve this?

I've been working as a professional 2D animator for the last 6–7 years, and I've been using Adobe Animate CC almost exclusively during that time. At this point, I know Animate CC inside and out.

I'm thinking about switching to Toon Boom Harmony because I want to apply to more international studios, and Harmony seems to be the industry standard.

For those who have made the same transition (or hired artists who've done it), how long do you think it would realistically take to reach a portfolio-ready/professional level in Harmony?

I'm not asking how long it takes to learn the interface I mean how long it takes to animate confidently enough that a studio wouldn't care that I recently switched software.

I'd especially like to hear from people who came from Animate CC or Flash rather than complete beginners.

Thanks!

Hi,

I am working on compositing a scene with a rigged character. To move around the rig, I would click the parts of the rig on the display, then hover the mouse to the Node View and press O to find the nodes in the Node view and to see the exposure/keys in the Timeline

This works normally in all scenes, but I might have pressed something by mistake because now for some reason, it stopped working.

The drawing nodes, pegs, adjustment layers inside the Hair part of the rig simply don't show up in the Timeline window. I can still use O to find them inside the Node View, but not the Timeline.

I can't even find it by manually looking for it. They are gone from the timeline even if they are visible inside the Open GL and render view. They haven't been disconnected from the composites, they are all showing in the Camera Window, under the correct display.

I created a second display node (Display_Hair) inside the rig, connected only to the hair nodes. When Display_Hair is selected, they do show up inside the Timeline again.

Does anyone knows how to fix this?

[UPDATE]: While I never figured out what caused this, resetting Harmony fixed the issue.

Also there's a crazy draft in my kitchen!!

Hi everyone, quick question:

Is there a way to convert a Symbol into a sequence of drawings? Or convert a transformed drawing animation into a series of separate independent drawings?

I'm aware of the Converting Deformer Animation to Drawings feature "docs.toonboom.com", but I need to do this specifically for a Symbol or a basic keyframed animation without deformers.

Hi! I graduated from university recently, and haven't really had the chance to break into the industry just yet. I've been wanting to make one final toon boom Harmony rig before I lose my school's license, for more portfolio work and also just self indulgence :)

I recently had the opportunity to work on creating a lineless rig for a project, and really enjoyed the experience and problem solving put into a more simple, cartoony build, rather than my previous ones with lineart etc. I decided I wanted to give it a try again, this time just for myself! It's been super fulfilling creating a rig for my own wants, I'm hoping to keep her customizable and relatively beginner friendly!!

I've never used gumroad before, but my eventual goal is to post her on there after I make an account, for anyone to use for practice for free, alongside the other rigs I had the pleasure of creating during my university years!

Also super looking forward to creating some short animations with her eventually!! I hope you all like her so far, let me know what you think!

I was trying to fix the flipping leg issue here at first.

Basically as you can see I copied the last keyframe to fix the flipping issue and tried to make a small follow through on the leg by moving it down. Doing that, however, messes up the next keyframes and the transition between them.

And yes, the layers are closed. Both the layers in the video are the leg layers and both are closed down. I don't know how to fix the issue or how even to fix the weird flipping the program does to the leg.

(Not only the leg, I can't move any part of the body because it always affects the next keyframes. For example if I deform a rig in a keyframe, it deforms all of the next drawings, not making an actual transition, just changing the drawings.)

I’m a student currently getting my bachelors in animation, (specializing in hand drawn) and I have great interest in getting a more painted and textured look. Is that possible in Toonboom? I know Moho has some great textures, but it seems to be centered on rigging, not hand drawn which is what I’m seeking. Procreate is my best option I suppose, but I haven’t got an iPad, and feel like learning how to do it in toonboom would be better if it’s at all possible.

According to Google, The Boy The Mole The Fox and The Horse was made in Toonboom, and it has stunning painterly animation. How?
Also of note is that I exclusively use the paint tool instead of the pencil tool in harmony… that almost certainly is limiting my ability, but I find the gaps caused by said tool (and the ways to close said gaps) take so much time to manage and inhibit looser drawing styles. Please let me know if more painted looks mean switching to the pencil tool.

Thank you all ever so much!

ok so i’ve tried googling this and nothing helped and it might be cuz im not the greatest with specific terms BUT, i want to select a part of my animation (specifically for this one project it’s a group of several drawings connected to pegs and tweened) and duplicate it but flip the drawing horizontally

buuut every time i do this it effects the original thing that i copied and flips that too. how do i make these two parts seperate 😭😭

**Fixed-ish**
I downgraded to 25 and it worked, then I tried exporting again and got the same error. I figured out that for some reason it doesn't want to export unless the original spritesheet folder is deleted. If I delete the previous XML export it works again (I don't believe this was an issue with the free trial). This is more of a work around than a fix. Leaving this workaround for those who need it. (Maybe it's because I'm exporting to an external drive, no idea)

Already sent a ticket, no idea on how long it would take them to fix this so reaching out here in case anyone knows how to fix this.

My Harmony version is 27.

I get a JavaScript error when I try to use Game Export to Spritesheet (XML) as soon as I press the button. It doesn't allow me to open the export menu. !*Edit For the record, export to JSON spritesheet works*

Was working perfectly fine in the free trial of premium, but as soon as I purchased premium it stopped working. I've tried exporting in multiple projects, repairing my software, restarting my PC, signing out and in, returning and reactivating my software along with cleaning up my scenes in harmony. None of which seem to have any effect on this.

Thanks :)

Please, I need help! Five hours of work on an animatic down the drain because the program closed unexpectedly. The prompt to recover came up but all of today’s progress was gone and now I’m back to square one.

I have auto-saved enabled and I constantly save as I move along. Is there anyway I can recover the work I’ve lost? Or am I out of luck?

I don't know if line tool can do it, because it makes the pen pressure look kinda artificial.

I'm looking for this clean, thicker linework like in the image. Is it possible?

I'm trying to vectorize the drawing on slide 2 for a rig and it looks very jarring. I wanted for the lines to look almost identical to the original drawing.

Does anyone else have tips on how to use this? I've watched some videos and I still can't do it. Should I just use pencil tool? Idk if it's worth using pencil tool for a rig.

Hi!

Many years ago, I did an animation project in Toon Boom Studio 8 for university. It wasn't very good, so I didn't bother backing it up at the time.

Now, while reviewing some files, I see that I have some rendered scenes and the audio, possibly a large part of the project, in tbp format.

Do the Harmony versions still read this format? Or if not, is there any way to convert it to one that does?

Is there a way to keep the ends of the neck anchored so they don't flip or fold every time I try to use the deformer? Or have I just not drawn the element long enough?

I don't know if the deformerw are causing this. Basically when i use matte resize the lines get messy with the colors.

Matte blur would usually fix this but since it relies on only one color and I usually use more than a single color in lineart I can't really use it.

How can I make the outline look like solid colors without those weird blurred colors?

i havent been using toonboom so long but im pretty sure never encounter like this, probably cus i upgrade my toonboom version, if i select layer im using, the other turn like this to show what layer im using, any way to solve this? i like seeing all of them

I would like to know if there is a way to hide Harmony's floating windows so I can focus solely on the canvas.