If you ignore the fact that Grease Pencil exists, I kind of consider OpenToonz to be the Blender of 2D animation software.

With everything going subscription based, we need to toss some coin and become backers to these opensource tools.

Harmony = Houdini of 2D OpenToon= Blender of 2D Go for what you prefer.

Things I learnt about Opentoonz and Toon boom harmony that they both have: • They both have similar hand drawn values in animation •they both have rich art brushes that work with both raster and vector graphics • they both have mesh deformation, can use bezier handle deformation and can do cut-out animation •They have the ability to scan in paper based drawings for pencil tests and digital ink and paint •Have powerful node editors for composting and editing animation with stunning effects produced for the final render Also InspirationTuts2D, Opentoonz also has a timeline and both it and the X-sheet can be used together,Harmony also has an X-sheet but that can only be used with it's timeline to use as a guide when doing rough animation digitally or traditionally.

This is a bit off topic, but I find it interesting that one of toon booms examples featured the web series lackadaisy which got an animated pilot only a few weeks ago

Toom boom has more downloads because the industry requires toom boom skills. all animator jobs include boom boom. I haven't seen any jobs that offer: We want you to know the boom boom but if you only know open tools it will be equivalent and you can apply for our role. everyone asks only toom boom. Maybe Japan has different requirements, but in Europe and the West everyone asks toom boom. This is why there are many more downloads of the boom boom program and not because people think that open tools is a bad program.

Great comparison! I think it would be worth mentioning that Opentoonz does crash quite often. I'm not sure how Harmony compares in that way.

ToonBoom for Linux had been stopped years ago. Only the server version exists (for project resource management etc).. Actual drawing/animating, you need the client: which again is non existant for Linux anymore. Also, most things you show/talk about for Harmony, is for the premium version, so it's important to state that. You have Toonz and OpenToonz, they differ not only in pricepoint, but also in features and support options. Toonz is used by studios, while opentoonz is the light version (open sourced), that is mostly used by enthousiasts.

Thank you for making this video its very well put together and easy to understand! Definitely has encouraged me to try learning both programs when i have the time :)

You missed the main thing I love about Opentoonz. Blur Brush in Raster level palette. Toon Boom Harmony doesn't have a Blur Brush.

Minor differences aside. I think that the key difference is that one is entirely free and the other will cost you over $3000 if you go for the full featured version (potentially more if you go for the subscription model). Which boils down to OpenToonz being for small indie projects and hobbyists, with Harmony being for professional studios and people who have money to burn.

Unfortunately a few errors in the video: The lifetime subscription pricing you mention is actually an annual subscription so you have to pay $1000 for Harmony Premium each year. The smaller versions are less expensive.

7:20 why do they keep showing this when theyre talking about toon boom compositing? That isnt toon boom, that's after effects

thanks for making this!! was looking for something better then photoshop for animations lol

I have to use Toon Boom Harmony for my animated short films, mostly clean up.

You got free vs like a million dollars plus a forever price just keep up-to-date! And when they both still give professional grade level outcomes you can't really compared them the choice is simple! Opentoonz is all your ever need! I used both in the past but boy what a money pocket burning toonboom really is your paying for upgrades that you don't really need or care to want! It be much easier to donate that money to the opentoonz community to get those same features without the pressure! Animators just want to be left alone to animate and not be bombarded with nonsense! Like having someone poke you in the back saying "hey do you want to buy this poke poke" then TBoom has this so called "plans" for you to choose from! Like why can't it be just one plan? Why do you need to pick between standard and premium? Like why do some people get that special treatment while your stuck with basic crap? They could just make it one price one software for all! Then it's a subscription base too like your never own it and your be renting it for life! This why you don't fall for this opentoonz is your man! And if it isn't than you can make it so! It's open source you can modify it to what you need it for all the money your end up paying for Tboom could be invested in paying a programmer to give you those features in opentoonz then share the glory and in making it the most powerful thing on earth! Just like blender is today!

I think that OT is by far the fastest tool for colouring wast amount of cells. Many studios uses it for exactly this. Where they might do the line work and post in others.

Thanks :)

Plz make next video on it

What if I wanna make some bleach tybw animation which one to pick

the compositing section you showed was After Effects, not toon boom harmony

thank

You nailed it. I agree with you 100%. Now I believe one can rig with Open Toonz. Is this true?

Yeah they are teaching us to use toon boom in school cause that's the industry standard but open toonz is without a doubt more affordable option and if a studio like gibli uses it exclusively then it must be pretty darn good

I can't even open Opentoonz after installing it because it doesn't support my mac OS X. I need that software because I draw my animations on paper and shoot it to a computer.

Enable subtitles please. Greettings from Brazil.

ToonBoom all day baby! ToonBoom forever!!!!!

Toon Boom is sooo good

i hope next time you can make comparison Clip Studio Paint and Krita.

OpenToonz and CACANi should be next.

Plz make video ob blender vs krita vs opentoonz

Can you make an opentoonz moho comparison video?

It's sad that Toon Boom Harmony has a subscriber-price-model like Autodesk-Software and Adobe have. I like one-time purchase.

I used Opentoonz at first it crashed frequently for me. I use Toonboom nowadays.

You miss Moho Studio....

Opentoonz application failed

Opentoonz takes to long to load

Moho.

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your voice 🥴

Just use AI?

I tried OpenToon and it's awful.