From the course: Animating 2D Characters: Harmony to Unity

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Character rigging

Character rigging

- [Instructor] When it comes to character rigging in Toon Boom Harmony there are many advantages, especially with cutout characters. Now if you're not familiar with working in Harmony I want to take a moment and give you a brief overview of the rigging process. So we have our character Nikki here and I'm using the file O3_character_rigging. Now one of the first things I wanna do is I wanna make sure the pivot point is set up correctly for each of the pieces. So if I select my transform tool, I can see, as soon as I click on this, we have this little dot in the center and that is our pivot point. So to do a quick demo of how we would rig this character I just wanna do this arm. So the first thing I would do is go over to my Advanced Animation tools and select rotate and if you don't see your advanced animation tools you'll simply go to Windows, come down to Toolbars and select Advanced Animation. So now that I have my rotate tool, I'm going to move the pivot point right up to the…

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