Mastering 2D Animation
Learn to be a master 2D animator, using hand-drawn and digital techniques.
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What You Will Learn!
- "Mastering 2D Animation: 01" will cover the following topics and many more...
- A brief history of animation.
- The production process of traditional 2D animation.
- Overview of equipment required to create 2D animation, traditional and digital.
- Principles of movement including weight, charting, squash and stretch.
- How to execute a perfect, pencil-drawn ‘Bouncing Ball’.
- How to execute a colored, digital bouncing ball in an entertaining vector-based, ToonBoom Studio supported environment.
- How to animate a perfect hand-drawn ‘Generic Walk”.
- How to animate a rigged, ToonBoom Studio character, walking through a vector-based digital environment.
- Instruction on drawing techniques for animation.
- Note: The course material also includes over 3 hours of digital instruction and the screening of Tony White’s 10-minute animated film homage to the rise and fall (and hopeful rise again) of the traditional animation industry – “Endangered Species”.
Description
Award-winning master animator, author and teacher Tony White offers 29 outstanding online tutorials on the core principles and techniques of 2D animation. Through extensive illustrated text-based lectures and over 4 hours of over-the-shoulder, apprentice-style video tutorials, Tony offers the finest foundation material possible in here presenting "Mastering 2D Animation"!
Each of Tony's tutorials embrace a comprehensive, step-by-step, apprentice-style of instruction, using both classically hand-drawn techniques and vector digital ones. Students should note that the core principles of movement taught in this course material however can always be applied to ALL forms of animation - from '3D' to 'Stop-frame', from 'Cut-out' to 'Claymation'!
(Note: The digital elements of this course are demonstrated using ToonBoom Studio. However, ToonBoom Technologies have since replaced 'Studio' with 'Harmony Essentials'. So students are strongly advised to obtain a rudimentary knowledge of this software before studying the digital aspects in this course. That way they will be better able to translate the 'Studio' instructions with the 'Harmony Essentials' ones without too much trouble.)
Tony believes the 'apprenticeship' style of teaching is the ONLY way to really learn animation and that the instruction offered by some of the big, for-profit animation schools and colleges around the world is entirely inadequate for the modern professional world. Consequently, by literally drawing from his own early apprenticeship experiences with three of the finest master animators of all-time - Richard Williams (3 times Oscar winner), Ken Harris (Warner Brothers) & Art Babbit (Disney) - Tony has crafted here a series of unique and defining courses that are knowledgeable, accessible and perfectly suited to studies in a home-based environment.
Who Should Attend!
- Suitable for students of all interests but specifically...
- Anyone seeking to make 2D animation his or her career objective.
- Current students who want to supplement their existing animation course with the most comprehensive animation training available.
- Existing professional animators who want to raise the level of their own work.
- Professional artists and illustrators who want to see their drawings move.
- Animation teachers who want to expand their knowledge of animation knowledge and teaching practices in the classroom.
- Home-based enthusiasts who want to animate as well as they did in the golden days of Hollywood animation.
