Harmony Reviews & Product Details

I like the ease of the rigging tools and deformers available with this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the price of Harmony. I feel like it's not accessible enough to students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unlike After Effects and Flash, Harmony was designed not just with character animators in mind, but specifically character animators working on serial projects, who will need to reuse assets over and over again. It's the ultimate vector animation software package (though, yes, the newest versions do include raster brushes). The color process is infinitely better than Flash and Photoshop. You can create palettes for scenes and the color filled areas are linked to those palettes. Update the palette, and every instance of that color is also updated. This saves a massive amount of time (vs. animating in Photoshop using AnimDessin and AnimCouleur extensions). Harmony is also accessible to learn in a self-guided context -- the training material on the Toon Boom website is deep, and well written. If you're new to Harmony, you can learn the basics in about a month of working through the material. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The raster brushes are decent, but sometimes I do miss my Photoshop brushes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rig animations look super polished and clean and very traditional-like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be tricky to use unless you have a Harmony expert by your side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harmony is fantastic for seeing the bare bones of the animation process and putting it in action. It’s incredibly easy to play back movement and export information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harmony does not make file-sharing easy. Especially with a program like Storyboard Pro where numerous people touch one file, it would be much more beneficial if there was a way for multiple people to view a file but only one with the ability to “check it out” (and edit) at a time. None of the programs are inherently intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harmony has so many different options for character animation. I love how convenient it is to color things in and not have to waste so much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish it was alittle more user friendly. Even watching tutorials I still get confused on some of the options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This program has proven its value. It she assign mouth shapes. It is a strong full production option for 2D art. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s clunky. No 2D program is user friendly but I found this one confusing. I kept loosing my windows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I had no previous experience with Toon Boom Harmony when I began to work on a project (Pig, Boat, Banana, Cricket for Nickeledeon), and it was very intuitive and easy to learn. It has many characteristics a classic animator, who learned to animate on pencil and paper, appreciate, and at the same time it has similarities and characteristics of a 3D animation software, like Maya. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Character builds can get very complicated to use and make, and at the same time there are features a 3D animator would expect on a rig that cannot be achieved on a 2D rig.

The thing I dislike the most about Harmony is the price: it is too expensive for an independent animator out of the industry to consider, but I still thing it is definitely worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harmony's versatile toolset is extremely beneficial to all. It works with Storyboard Pro, allowing you for about 80% of the animation pipeline to occur within the two programs. It's rigging/cut-out animation tools are high above all others, also! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm not too keen on the way that Harmony's brushes work out of the box. It takes a lot to make them look more natural, in my experience. Unfortunately, the more textures you add up, the more resource-heavy your file will become. On older systems, you may notice some lag while animating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At Michigan State, they offered a semester-long course on this program. Although I'm no pro, if anyone is serious about animation, this is the program to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tedious to learn, but that's like every program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When I first started college we created our animations in flash. A few years later we were introduced to Harmony and I can not even begin to tell you how much better it is using Harmony. I also have experience doing traditional pencil and paper animations and this is the tool that every animator should be using. It's fairly easy to learn the basics to be able to start animating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wouldn't say it's a dislike but there is a pretty decent learning curve, which is understandable because it is a powerful tool, loaded with features. As long as you keep that in mind when you purchase it, you will be fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.