My latest course for Lynda has gone online – and it’s the most fun yet! The course teaches the classic animation drawing techniques, which are also applicable to comic books. This was a 28 year long ‘brain dump’, in which I included everything that I could remember from working for Don Bluth in the late…
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Any posts pertaining to tutorials, not merely my Lynda/Linkedin-Learning ones.
A SUPERIOR ANIMATEcc PALETTE
It’s not news that the default palette for Flash is dreadful. There’s not much that you can do with this, other than pretend it’s not there: I made my own early in the 2000s; it’s much more subdued (maybe a bit too subdued) but you’ll find it much more useful than the default. Here’s an…
HAND DRAWN ANIMATION IN FLASH
My fifth course for Lynda.com is online. It’s called ‘Hand Drawn Animation in Flash’. If you don’t have a Lynda.com membership, you can get a free 1-week trial here, and watch it. A preview of the two main scenes that the course will demonstrate: And the thumbnails that were used as reference – first, the…
2D ANIMATION PRINCIPLES
UPDATE (2019): this course is fine, but has been superceded by my new course on the 21 Foundations of Animation, which is also on linkedin learning and lynda.com: It’s online! My fourth Lynda course has just been uploaded. If you don’t have a Lynda.com membership, you can get a free 1-week trial here, and watch…