Any posts pertaining to tutorials, not merely my Lynda/Linkedin-Learning ones.
I’ve created a 30-minute course on how to draw and color characters in Photoshop. Links to the individual movies if you lose track of youtube’s wonky playlist: 1: INTRODUCTION An overview of the software and process of drawing. 2: DRAWING The gesture line is tied down, then cleaned up. 3: COLORING Using masks to…
I’ve compiled my classes into a single unified list of my Linkedin Learning tutorials. They’re organised to help you find the topics most relevant to your needs. I’ve added classes on FX (water, fire, smoke, etc), as well as secondary courses on each of the 21 Foundations of Animation. If you need to become a…
Movies from my LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering cartoon physics & exaggeration, assembled into a virtual course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! CARTOON PHYSICS 1: CENTER OF MASS Just because we call it ‘cartoon physics’ doesn’t mean it doesn’t have rules! Objects still…
Movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering anticipation, overshoot & settle, assembled into a virtual course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! 1: INTRODUCTION TO ANTICIPATION Before moving right we anticipate the action by moving slightly left for a few frames. On the…
Movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering silhouettes & reversals, assembled into a ‘virtual’ course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! 1: PANTOMIME Most classically trained animators lean towards pose to pose, as this allows them to block in the scene, starting from the…
Movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering straight ahead vs. pose-to-pose animation, assembled into a virtual course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! 1: STRAIGHT AHEAD Straight ahead is the loosest way to animate, as you move from key to key forward…
Movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering secondary action (drag), assembled into a ‘virtual’ course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! NOTE: some people like to use ‘secondary’ action to refer to background action or characters not in the foreground. All well and…
Movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering timing, spacing & easing, assembled into a virtual course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! 1: TIMING & SPACING BASIC Timing and spacing are not the same thing! By changing the timing charts or tween settings…
Movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering squash & stretch, assembled into a ‘virtual’ course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! 1: SQUASH & STRETCH Basic intro to squash & stretch – the degree of squash and stretch has a direct effect on…
Movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering opposing action & overlap, assembled into a virtual course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! OPPOSING ACTION 1: OPPOSING ACTION: BASIC A very simple foundation of animation is the opposing action. You’re likely to create it…
Movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering counterpose & leading actions assembled into a virtual course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! COUNTERPOSE / TORQUE 1: RENAISSANCE Artists have known for centuries that by rotation the hips and shoulders relative to one another,…
Movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering staging & acting, assembled into a virtual course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! 1: TWINNING A no-no (in the world of Disney/Bluth/WB style of animation is ‘Twinning’ – when a character’s limbs mirror one another…
Movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series covering dialog & accents, assembled into a virtual course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! 1: INTRO TO ACCENTS Many students and beginners focus too much on the particular mouth shapes associated with a vocal sound. Far…
One of my favourite courses in the Linkedin Learning (Lynda) library is ‘Drawing cartoon characters‘. A series of movies in my ‘Tips & Tricks’ series took many of the drawings from that course and animated them. I’ve assembled all the movies on the topics into this virtual course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going…
If you’re a Photoshop user who hasn’t watched or subbed to Texturelabs Youtube channel, please do! The guy is astonishing. I used his halftone tutorial a while back to create my ‘posters & stuff’ image to the right! It made the original hi-res image look like a scan from an old magazine, a really nice…
What is the best order in which to watch my courses? Some should be watched regardless of what software or method you choose: the universals, which are timeless. To keep up with my other tutorials subscribe to my youtube channel! Also, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources…