Exporting an Animation from Toon Boom Harmony into Blender Grease Pencil

In this video, I’m going to show you how to export an image sequence/frames from Toon Boom Harmony so you can import an animation into Blender using the Import Image as a Plane addon. I use this workflow so I can create and animate a cutout/puppet style character in Toon Boom Harmony and then build the environment around the character in Blender using 3D objects and tracing them in Grease Pencil.

0:00 – Intro

0:12 – Video Overview

1:01 – Exporting an Image Sequence from Toon Boom Harmony Overview

1:39 – Toon Boom Harmony Write Node

2:03 – Toon Boom Harmony Write Node Properties

3:30 – Toon Boom Harmony Write Node Export

4:16 – Importing an Image Sequence into Blender Overview

4:26 – Enabling the Blender Import Images as Planes Addon

5:02 – Blender Import Images as Planes Addon Options

6:24 – Scaling the Image Plane

7:07 – The Image Plane Interacting with Blender Grease Pencil Objects

7:50 – Changing the Image Plane Blend Mode

9:15 – Outro