Potato V02a 360° Toon Boom Harmony Rig

This Toon Boom Harmony potato rig was baked fresh by Matt Watts and is ready for you to enjoy! Digital Gravy Animation designed the cute little guy.

FEATURES:

• Master Controllers for torso tilts and shoe tilts.
• Happy and sad mouth swaps for the FR front, QF quarter-front, and PR profile views.
• Deformers on mouth swaps numbered 01, 02, and 06.
• Blink swaps with deformers on the closed E swap.
• Cheek swaps for mouth corners or covering the lower portion of the eyes.
• Cloned arms, legs, and eyes to avoid the need for duplicated drawing swaps; which also makes it possible to copy animation from one limb to the other in the FR view.
• Self-traced lines on the legs and shoes.
• Selection handles visible in the camera view to be used in combination with the Transform Tool with Peg Selection mode activated in Tool Properties. This makes it fast for animators to select common pegs such as Torso_Hat-MP, or Upper_Arm-MP.
• Notes about uncommon rigging techniques on the sketch layer and in backdrops.
• The sketch layer in the main backdrop of the rig is a great place to do draw-overs.
• This 360° rig is actually a dynamic 180° rig with swaps to flip all the asymmetric elements; which makes it easier to copy a pose from one side of the rig to the other.

NOTES:

I'm planning to release some tutorials in the future regarding the building process involved with this rig. It took about 3 hours to adjust the turnaround to get it ready to rig , and then 33 hours to rig and record.

To use the Master Controllers, find the mc nodes in the Node View inside the rig group on the far right. Select them and then click the Show Controls orange line button in the Camera View. Use the Transform and Animate Current Frame tools as you move the widget around. It is usually best to copy one of the main front keyframe poses on the timeline to a different frame and then use the MC's on one of the starting poses. Things get a little weird sometimes if you mess around with a bunch of deformers or posing stuff before using the MC's.

You may be wondering where the 180° V01 is. The 360° turn you get here required more nodes, that's why it is V02. Don't worry, you're not missing out on anything.

Please ask questions if more instructions in this description would be helpful. Thanks!

HOW TO IMPORT THE TPL: Unzip the Harmony file, and then in your Library window inside of Harmony Premium, click Open Library. Navigate to where you have unzipped the potato rig. You can then drag the PTO rig into any Harmony scene you have open.