Have you ever had an idea, a story, or even a character that you wanted to see animated? Maybe you’ve even gotten as far as writing a story, or drawn out the characters. Well, now what do you do? Welcome to Learn Toon Boom Animate & How to Create Your Own Cartoons! In this course, I’ll show you the essentials for creating your own animation, using the professional software, Toon Boom Animate 3.

Description

Have you ever had an idea, a story, or even a character that you wanted to see animated? Maybe you’ve even gotten as far as writing a story, or drawn out the characters. Well, now what do you do? Welcome to Learn Toon Boom Animate & How to Create Your Own Cartoons! In this course, I’ll show you the essentials for creating your own animation, using the professional software, Toon Boom Animate 3.

In this course, you'll learn to:

Toon Boom is an industry leader in creating 2D animation software, and has been used for animating The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, Sponge Bob Square Pants, and even Disney’s The Frog Princess.

In 2D animation, there are basically 2 types of animation, full animation, also referred to as hand-drawn, or “Disney” animation, wherein each frame of animation is drawn… think classic Bugs Bunny cartoons. The second type of 2D animation is called limited animation, also referred to as cut-out, or Flash animation… most prime-time animation, The Simpsons, etc. use cut-out animation. The major focus of this course is cut-out animation, where we will create, rig, and animate a 2D digital puppet… our main character, Bob.

For the traditional animator, Toon Boom software has the feeling of 2D animation software, built for animators. Throughout the course, I’ll be showing you the different tools and windows, all of which are based on traditional animation terms like pegs, fields, color cards, onionskin, light tables, and more.

For the more seasoned digital animator, if you’re familiar with working with programs like Flash, throughout the course I’ll be demonstrating how Toon Boom Animate differs and what makes it a powerful program. Just one example, Animate has a camera that works in 3D space. Imagine setting up a multiplane scene in just minutes, without you having to install any additional plugins or software!

The best part of this course? Even if you don’t own Toon Boom Animate, you can download a FREE fully functioning demo. Toon Boom creates PLEs (Personal Learning Editions) for virtually all of their software.

So, if you’re ready to learn how to animate, purchase this course and let’s get started!

• This class is for you, if you are a traditional animator, looking to make the leap into digital animation
• Or if you're a digital animator, looking to learn a new & powerful animation pipeline
• If you are already working in a production environment, using Toon Boom Animate, or Harmony, this class may be too basic for you.

Course content

• Welcome
  • SNEAK PREVIEW: Look at Animate's Powerful Camera!
  • About this Course
  • Here are the Support files
  • Don't have Toon Boom Animate? Get the DEMO
• The Animate Interface Overview
  • Tools
  • Tool Properties
  • Camera & Drawing Views
  • Timeline & Xsheet
  • The Library
  • Colour Palette
  • Windows & Tool Bars
• Setting up preferences
  • Shortcut keys
  • Focus on enter
  • Full scene Anti-Aliasing
  • Customizing the workspace
• Drawing in Animate
  • My Drawing Hardware: the Wacom Intous 5
  • Colour swatches
  • Brush tool
  • Pencil tool
  • Smoothing tools
  • Paint bucket tools
  • Drawing mode overview
  • Select & Cutter tools
  • Contour Editor
• Using the timeline
  • Onionskin
  • Drawing substitutions
  • Creating Layers
  • Timeline shortcut Keys
• Animating in Toon Boom Animate
  • Using the Animate mode
  • Setting up Pivot Points
  • Using the Transform Tool
  • Using & Animating the Z- Axis
  • Motion vs Stop-Motion Keyframes
• Rigging the Head
  • Rough Sketching
  • Inking the head layers
  • Rigging the eyes
  • Setting pivot points for the head layers
  • Parenting the head layers
• Rigging the Body
  • Rough sketching the body
  • Inking the body layers
  • Rigging the arms
  • Rigging the legs
  • Parenting the body layers
  • Saving your character as a template
• Creating a Walk Cycle
  • Animating the legs
  • Animating the arms
  • Creating a walk cycle, and adding it to a peg
• Importing Images
  • Tracing Images
  • Importing Illustrator or SWFs
  • Importing Photoshop
  • Importing movie files
• Sound & Dialogue
  • Importing sounds & editing sounds
  • Mapping sounds for lip sync
  • Auto lip sync
  • Editing lip sync
  • Saving your lipsynced file to the Library
• Animating the Scene
  • Foregrounds & backgrounds
  • Animating the Camera
• Animating "The Bar Scene"
  • How to import templates
  • Moving your character based on dialogue
  • Creating a Hand-Held Camera Effect
  • Creating a Jump-Cut
  • Best practices for exporting your movie
  • Getting your cartoon ready for Youtube & the World!
• Closing Remarks
  • Welcome to the end :)