If you are not yet familiar with Harmony, you should get in touch with your sales contact at Toon Boom to organize a needs analysis of your studio and production in order to make the best of Harmony and optimize your production pipeline. To perform a custom installation which fits the studio’s requirements, a proper analysis of the studio is required, such as: the type of project, the productivity expected, and the delivery date, etc. There are multiple ways of installing Harmony, as well as numerous types of hardware that can work with Harmony. This document should be taken as a guide to help you understand the preliminary steps before performing a typical Harmony installation. The client machines simply run the software and allow the members of your team to work on your production.īefore installing Harmony, refer to the Harmony and Your IT Department white paper to learn about the network prerequisites for a Toon Boom Harmony installation. The assets can be stored on the database server, or spread across different storage servers as required. The server holds the database and manages access to its assets by users. Harmony Server is a server-client configuration model allowing multiple users to work on a production together. Tablet performance may be slower on Linux than on other platforms with the same specifications.

Note that Bamboo tablets are not supported on Linux.

Note that disabling the default video driver and installing the proprietary driver for your video card is required.

CentOS/RedHat Entreprise Linux 7 base environment: GNOME Desktop.

CentOS/RedHat Entreprise Linux 6 software set: Desktop.

Harmony daemons (database server, batch processing, etc.) require SysV, which is supported by CentOS and RedHat Entreprise Linux, but not by all GNU/Linux distributions.

Harmony may not run or work properly on other distributions.

Recommended: Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 1536 MB.

4K monitors with scaling up to 200% supported.

Windows 7 (64-bit, excluding Starter and Home Basic).

The following requirements are for users of Harmony Stand Alone and client workstations of Harmony Server Harmony takes advantage of a fast multi-core CPU, high RAM capacity and high-end video cards. NOTE An Internet connection is required to activate the animation software.

Toon boom harmony computer requirements