it can seem confusing & abstract...

No flimsy razzle dazzle. The puppets you make should be impressive to use, easy to maintain during production and built to last.

puppets for the real world

...and at times, tiresome & overwhelming...

That's why I wrote this Toon Boom Rigging book!

learning Toon Boom Harmony Premium can be tricky...

Start from the ground up.

Quickly understand and set the best preferences and work practices so you don’t make a puppet that will go wrong and need extensive reworking further down the line

Learn the basics

Feeling stressed? Things not working out? This cat will remind you to relax and suggest other ways of tackling a problem

Bus Stop

This very nervous cat wants to keep every one of his nine lives! He lets you know when things might go wrong.

Jollop

This cat knows his stuff and he knows that he knows it. It's best to just give in and follow his step by step guides

Bon Bon

This happy cat really wants you to be inspired and excited.

He'll help you with tips & encouragement

Aniseed

Meet The Cats!

Now that you know how to make a puppet really well, time to turn up the heat and start making it look and feel truly extraordinary.

Learn advanced techniques

(the fun way)

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This Book covers

The Toolbar

Preferences

The Timeline

The Pegs & Drawings system

Adobe Animate to Harmony

Deformers

Constraints

Palettes

Cutters

Cameras

Functions

Lip Sync

The X Sheet

The Node View

Inverse Kinematics

Groups

Expressions

Master Controllers

So where do you get it?

pages of ToonBoom Harmony Premium learning

500+

“After reading this book, my personal projects went from looking like a total noob to looking like studio quality work”

Tyler Leonard

“Instruction manuals are USUALLY written by tech people who program stuff. But as an artist, trying to interpret manuals usually makes my brain go night-night. But the lord hath smiled down upon me and brought me Oli Putland's manual. Written by an ANIMATOR for ANIMATORS and ARTISTS. It was like watching cartoons and being tricked into learning something.”

David Stodolny

Disney & Dreamworks Animator

“This must be the sexiest tutorial I've ever seen, and knowing this is ToonBoom Harmony we're talking about, that means quite something!The very graphical approach makes it not only fun and inviting to read, it also gives you a thorough understanding of all the concepts behind rigging in Harmony.”

Joris Bergmans

Artist & Rigger

“You could spend hours and hours, ransacking the internet for rigging tutorials, tips and tricks... Or you could get Oli's book and get on with life. Your book has helped me lots, I kept it open on a second monitor during my first TBH project. 10/10”