Prepare your students for the digital jobs of tomorrow with Toon Boom!
In our digital age, storytelling and communication are accomplished with animated characters, interesting graphics and realistic special effects. Toon Boom Harmony and Storyboard Pro are the worldwide leaders in animation and storyboard software. With these Toon Boom products you can lead your students into the future with strong career paths in many fields. Contact us for more information!
As an educator teaching 21st century skills, you are preparing students and learners for a rapidly changing future demanding skills in critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. Whether teaching K-12, university level, or at a CTE institution, Studica and Toon Boom are dedicated to supporting your education goals. Give your students a competitive edge with 21st century skills. Studica, as a Diamond Level Toon Boom reseller, has the resources to help you find the solutions that best fit your needs.
Notable schools and companies using Toon Boom software include Academy of Art, Art Institutes, Austin Community College District, Chapman, Columbia College Chicago, Columbus College of Art & Design, CSU Long Beach, Huntington University, Los Angeles Film School, Loyola Marymount, New Mexico State University, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design), SVA (School of Visual Arts) NYC, USC School of Cinematic Arts, & Woodbury University, along with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation, Pixar, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers Animation, Fox, Rough Draft Studios, Nelvana, Xilam, Mercury Filmworks, China Central Television, Toonz India Ltd, Digital eMationand Gaumont Animation.
Studica provides monthly webinars providing an overview of the Toon Boom offerings. To sign up for the “Explore Career Pathways with Toon Boom Animation for High Schools” or “Toon Boom Animation in Education for Colleges & Universities” please visit our News & Events page under the Webinars Tab or Contact us for more information.
Product Offerings for Education
For over 20 years, Toon Boom software has been the industry standard for creating award winning animation. If you can imagine it, Toon Boom software will help you create it. Because Toon Boom software is used throughout the motion picture, television, and animation community, career opportunities for those skilled in the software are plentiful.
Toon Boom Harmony is a family of three separate software products, Essentials, Advanced and Premium which provide professional-quality 2D animation production capabilities while Storyboard Pro delivers everything needed for episodic, advertising, film, and other creative projects.
Student Certification
Toon Boom understands that many states require schools to show their students have passed a competency test. Toon Boom offers Certification Exams for students providing an industry standard of excellence that provides reliable validation of skills and knowledge. The exams are aligned with high school curriculum and appropriate for high school students however they can also be used by colleges for entry level animation courses. Toon Boom Certification Exams will validate your students technical ability and demonstrate their proficiency in digital content and animation. Toon Boom supplies free curriculum and courses, study guides and practice tests to complement the exams.
- Toon Boom Educational Curriculum (Harmony - All versions)
- Toon Boom Storyboard Artist Journey
- Toom Boom Exam Prep Study Guides
- Toon Boom Practice Tests
Instructional Materials & Educational Resources
Toon Boom is dedicated to providing the best learning resources available to make you and your students successful. Toon Boom offers Professional Development as remote on-line web sessions or in person on-site training sessions. In addition, Toon Boom offers a range of ready-made instructional materials and educational resources to help you teach. Learn how to incorporate Toon Boom Animation software with free journeys, courses, modules, topics, and downloadable assets from the Learn Portal.
- Toon Boom Complete Learning Resources
- Toon Boom Journeys Learning Guide (Complete Skills)
- Toon Boon Courses (Specific Subjects)
- Toon Boom Modules (Specific Lessons)
- Documentation (Guides & How-tos)
- Toon Boom Webinars
Integration with 2D – 3D Software
Toon Boom Harmony offers the animation tools to maximize your creativity with impressive 2D-3D integration possibilities for Unity 3D and Maya. The plug-ins for Unity 3D and Maya are completely free and complimentary from Toon Boom with full instructions on how to install. Toon Boom also offers free support for installation at support@toonboom.com along with providing you with the correct plug-in for each program. The importing and exporting is seamless within setting some variables and adjusting the node view.
- Toon Boom and Animation for Games
- Exporting a 3D Object from Maya
- Importing a 3D Object from Maya to Harmony
- Importing Harmony Files into Unity
- Export Harmony Animations to Unity
- Export Harmony Sprite to Unity
The Toon Boom Community
Toon Boom is committed to making sure you and your students get the most out of your Toon Boom software. They have created an extensive Toon Boom Community where users can connect and share their ideas through the Showcase, Forums, Blog and YouTube Channels.
- Toon Boom Community
- Toon Boom Showcase
- Toon Boom Forums
- Toon Boom Blog
- YouTube Channel Toon Boom Animation
- YouTube Channel Toon Boom Storyboard Pro
- YouTube Channel Toon Boom Tips
More Information:
- Success Stories
- Toon Boom and Bento Box
- Toon Boom Job Connections
- Animation for Schools
- Animation for Educators
