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The Harmony Light Shading effect provides a proper solution to this issue.

There are a few tricks for doing simple automated highlights, but the results are not always convincing. Following that, if you want to modify your animation, you have to redraw those zones.

To do so, you must draw all the highlight zones for each frame by hand. One of the disadvantages of cut-out animation when wanting to retain the time saving factor and ability to quickly modify an animation, is the fact that you cannot easily create tones and highlights. One of the main advantages of using a cut-out puppet is the ability to reuse your characters without having to redraw them and you can modify your animations very quickly. There are probably better ways of doing this now that you should use instead however.Cut-out animation allows for great advancements and time saving in production, but it has certain limitations. Assuming you are working on rec709 imagery out of Toon Boom however, if you do encounter this problem turning it off will result in proper output.

!! Future Henry here, this obviously isn’t a best practice that you should use going forward, display colour management should absolutely be on in your pipeline. In order to make things look correct while working in After Effects we will remove this viewer transform by clicking on the colour management button below the viewer and turning off “Use Display Colour Management”. Toon Boom writes out files in the sRGB colourspace because they like it that way or something… In any case I’ve already bothered them about it on Twitter so you don’t have to. This is because by default After Effects reads in EXR files as if they are written in the linear colourspace. Once you import your footage you’ll probably realize that your colours don’t look right.

A Slight Detour Into The Wild World Of Colour Management