Animate CC and Character Animator are two animation programs available through Adobe’s Creative Cloud Subscription service. It’s important to understand the differences between these programs, because they offer very different feature sets and represent different approaches to making animation. In …
Animate CC (previously Flash) and After Effects are the two biggest animation programs available from Adobe. If you’re new to animation software, it might be hard for you to figure out which one is right for you. In this post we’ll …
Learning new skills isn’t something children should only do at school. There’s a lot of fun interesting topics that aren’t taught at traditional (and even more modern) schools, and it’s often the parent’s job to expose their kids to new …
Every once in while an animated movie comes out that is impossible to ignore. Spiderman Into the Spider-Verse is one of those movies. It is without a doubt one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen. Apparently I’m not …
As our courses library continues to expand I’ve been getting a lot of emails from people asking me which course they should get, based on their own needs. In this post I’ll address some common situations and try to answer …
In these 3-part video series we go over starting a project in TVPaint Animation, from storyboarding to a finished animatic. These lessons are taken from our full TVPaint Animation course. The course includes 36 HD lessons, teaching frame-by-frame animation, camera movement, 2D visual …
If you’re one of the many people looking to get into 2D animation, or are considering updating your workflow, you might be wondering: What’s the best software to use? The most common debate in the 2D realm is Toon Boom vs. Flash. In …
The 5 Types of Animation A Beginner’s Guide3DHand DrawnVectorStop MotionMotion GraphicsWhat is this guide about? The purpose of this guide is to take you through the intricacies of the different types of animation styles and techniques. It also covers the path …
Last week I wrote about taking up the challenge and just start animating. I then realized that since work has been busy lately I forgot to do it myself. Just sit and animate something short and fun for my reel. …
