What Will I Learn?

• Harness the power of Photoshop to make simple or complex 2-D animations.
• Animate and draw directly over video clips to enhance or completely transform them.
• Access a full array of public domain and royalty-free still image and video resources to use in your own unique projects.
• Capture and animate complex movements with ease by using video as your guide.
• Create stunning animations and video/animation combos that can be exported as stand-alone movies or brought into other programs to be combined with other 2D and 3D multimedia sources.

In this course you'll learn step by step how to:

• Harness the power of Photoshop to create simple or complex frame by frame animations, with or without using Photoshop's timeline.
• Easily turn a regular video into a stop-motion animated video by making simple frame rate adjustments.
• Apply a full range of effects to your video to create animated elements or a stand-alone animation even if you CAN'T DRAW.
• Coax Photoshop to animate objects and layers for you (without having to draw anything) by making position, size, and opacity changes, to name just a few possibilities.
• Craft multiple effects at once to create more complex final animations by using multiple layers.
• Capture complex movements by bringing in video, drawing right over it, and (optionally) throwing the video guide out so all that is left is your new animation with its sophisticated movements. (That's rotoscoping!)