Whether you want to increase your skills or get advice on improving the efficiency of your production, Toon Boom Training and Consulting Programs can help you achieve your goals.
Types of training
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À la Carte Training Modular Training Session (customized to fit specific studio’s needs) |
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Turn Key Training Five-Day Training Session (per animation technique)
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Overall Training 10-Day Training Session (all animation techniques) |
Consulting Services
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Digital Animation, Variable duration |
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Production Assistance, Variable duration |
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Workflow Review, Variable duration |
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Performance Analysis and Tuning, Variable duration |
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Migration Service, Variable duration |
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Custom Feature Development, Variable duration |
Contact Support to request onsite training or consulting services!
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Training Courses
Toon Boom Training is critical because you:
- Build a solid foundation on Toon Boom’s products and learn from the experts.
- Get a complete understanding of Toon Boom’s products and unlimited creative power and control.
- Increase your productivity and generate more money for the bottom line.
- Produce higher-quality output and enjoy increased value for your animation productions.
Training sessions can be organized anywhere and can be customized to your needs. In order to make the most of your investment in training, we suggest that you make sure the system is properly installed and tested prior to the trainer’s arrival. Please consider ordering OPUS System Administration Course to maximize your studio’s efficiency and your training experience.
Upon successful completion of the training session, the user will receive a Certificate of Achievement. This certifies that the user has successfully completed training for either Toon Boom Digital Pro or Toon Boom Harmony.
À la Carte Training
This custom training programme is comprised of modules that can be combined or interchanged to suit the user’s needs. The user or studio can create its own training programme depending on the amount of available time they have and the production’s requirements.Modules take one to two days, depending on the number of participants, their skills and the language in which the training is provided. Note that some modules are pre-requisites to others and will need to be combined to ensure the successful delivery of the training.
- Module 1: Introduction to the Interface and Drawing (Pre-requisite for modules 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8)
At the end of the training session, the user will be able to setup a scene, import external elements, hand-draw and navigate through the interface. This module is divided in two sub modules which are Introduction to Interface (1a) and Introduction to Drawing (1b).
- Module 2: Cut-out Character Creation
During this training session, the user will create character models and colour palettes, paint colour models, analyze character breakdowns, draw pivots and rig characters.
- Module 3: Cut-out Animation and Library Management
This training session will enable users to animate cut-out characters, apply lip-sync as well as store and reuse templates. This module is divided in two sub modules which are Cut-out animation (3a) and Library management (3b).
- Module 4: Introduction to Compositing (Pre-requisite for module 5)
This training session will enable users to setup elements in the scene, create camera moves, animate trajectories and create multiplane setups.
- Module 5: Effects
At the end of the training session, the user will be able to create basic and advanced effects and render out a scene. This module comes also with a sub module titled Introduction to Effects (5a) which covers Basic Effects and Rendering only
- Module 6: Paperless Animation and Painting
During this training session, the user will learn how to hand-draw, animate, create colour palettes as well as paint drawings. This module is divided in two sub modules which are Paperless Animation (6a) and Ink and Paint (6b).
- Module 7: Morphing and Glue Joints
At the end of the training session, the user will be able to draw, create morphing sequences using basic and advanced techniques as well as create joints with Glue. This module comes also with a sub module titled Basic Morphing (7a).
- Module 8: Traditional Scanning and Ink and Painting
During this training session, the user will learn how to scan paper drawings, vectorize drawings, clean scanned drawings, set timing in the x-sheet and paint drawings with the fast ink and paint tools. This module is divided in three sub modules which are Scanning (8a), X-sheet (8b) and Ink and Paint – Traditional (8c).
Turn Key Training
Toon Boom Professional Animation Training can be concentrated into a five-day format. The training will be mainly focused on cut-out animation, traditional animation or paperless animation following the user’s needs.Five-day training is based on the modular training components. The same objectives and requirements apply as for A La Carte Training.
Cut-out Outline Summary
- Day 1: Introduction to Interface and Drawing (Module 1)
- Day 2: Cut-out Character Creation (Module 2)
- Day 3: Cut-out Animation and Library Management (Module 3)
- Day 4: Introduction to Compositing (Module 4)
- Day 5: Introduction to Effects and Basic Morphing (Modules 5a and 7a)
Paperless Outline Summary
- Day 1: Introduction to Interface and Drawing (Module 1)
- Day 2: Paperless Animation and Painting (Module 6)
- Day 3: Paperless Animation Continuation and Morphing (Module 6a and 7a)
- Day 4: Introduction to Compositing (Module 4)
- Day 5: Effects (Modules 5)
Traditional Outline Summary
- Day 1: Introduction to Interface and Drawing (Module 1)
- Day 2: Scanning Drawing and Ink and Paint (Module 8)
- Day 3: Ink and Paint Continuation and Introduction to the Compositing (Module 8c and 4)
- Day 4: Introduction to Compositing (Module 4)
- Day 5: Effects and Revision (Module 5)
Overall Training
Toon Boom Professional Animation Training can be extended to a 10-day format. The training will cover most of the software’s features and allow time to review and practice what was learnt during the training session. The 10-day training is based on the modular training components. The same objectives and requirements apply as for A La Carte Training.Outline
- Day 1: Introduction to Interface and Drawing (Module 1)
- Day 2: Cut-out Character Creation (Module 2)
- Day 3: Cut-out Animation and Library Management (Module 3)
- Day 4: Introduction to Compositing (Module 4)
- Day 5: Effects (Module 5)
- Day 6: Paperless Animation and Painting (Module 6)
- Day 7: Morphing and Glue Joints (Module 7)
- Day 8: Cut-out Animation Continuation (Module 3a)
- Day 9: Scanning and Ink and Paint Revision (Module 8)
- Day 10: Final Revision
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Consulting
Make Toon Boom an important member of your team. With Toon Boom Consulting Services, a consultant will work with you to examine your needs and then implement recommendations that will ensure that your production runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
Digital Animation
Designed for studios producing cut-out, re-use or paperless animation, this consulting service gives a unique opportunity to mix training and production in the context of your own project. The consulting service can address the following: pre-planning and planning for re-use, character design, rigging and animating, creating templates for re-use and working with audio.Production Assistance
With Production Assistance, Toon Boom can provide you with high-level, on-site consulting at any stage in the production process. This service can help you with pre-production analysis, pipeline and crew organization, the identification of creative and quality assurance checkpoints and post-production preparation.Workflow Review
This consulting service will help you with efficient application setup through a survey of current installation needs, a pipeline analysis and hands-on implementation of all necessary recommendations.Performance Analysis and Tuning
Performance and Analysis Tuning ensures the successful delivery of high-performance solutions through comprehensive network testing, bottleneck analysis and tuning.Migration Service
The Migration Service provides hands-on assistance and expertise in the migration of your existing application and assets to the OPUS solution.Custom Feature Development
If a studio requires custom made functions that are not yet available in the software, such as:- Effect plug-ins
- Specific file format support
- Workflow Modification
- Integration with a home made asset management system and database
Toon Boom RND department can help to analyze and develop the studio’s specific requirements for an ideal Toon Boom integration in the studio’s pipeline.
