Overview
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Learn how to create traditional hand-drawn animation in Adobe Photoshop.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- How to animate using Photoshop
- What you need to know
- Overview and setup
- Gestures and roughs
- Tiedown and cleanup
- Layering and coloring
- Inking
- Timeline and exposures
- Thumbnails and timing charts
- Moving and unifying layers
- Drawing keys
- Drawing breakdowns
- Plotting arcs
- Drawing inbetweens
- Coloring the character
- Thumbnailing the action
- Drawing character keys
- Arcs and breakdowns
- Drawing character inbetweens
- Coloring the character
- Grouping and changing timing
- Rendering the animation
- Next steps
