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Toon Boom Animate: Forward Walk Cycle [PREMIUM]

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  A walk cycle? With no legs?? In this premium Toon Boom Animate tutorial, we create a forward walk-cycle (no legs involved). This tutorial is based on anime and old-school limited animation, like Scooby Doo. Whenever you would see a character walking toward the camera, they would only be shown from the waist up. This [...]

Toon Boom Animate: Pose to Pose Animation

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This Toon Boom Animate tutorial is a simple pose-to-pose animation exercise of a stick falling over. Traditional animation terms are covered like keyframes, breakdowns, and tweens. There are two examples, showing a diference between animation, and motion graphics. Enjoy.

Multiplane Animation w/ a Wiggle

This tutorial uses Toon Boom Animate to create a multiplane landscape, in addition shows how to creating a wiggly line effect.

Stairs Walk Cycle pt2

Here is part 2 of how to animate a character walking up stairs in Toon Boom Animate. This tutorial covers basic rigging, motion tweens, z-depth, and patches.
13 minutes/31.4MB… be patient while loading :)

Stairs Walk Cycle pt1

Stairs Walk Cycle

Here is part 1 of how to animate a character walking up stairs in Toon Boom Animate. This tutorial covers basic rigging and motion tweens.
16 minutes/37.2MB… be patient while loading :)

Create Classic Cartoon Eyes in Animate

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Here is a basic Toon Boom Animate tutorial to animate cartoon eyes w/ a blink. This tutorial covers palette creation, drawing substitution, and manipulating basic shapes vs drawing them freehand. Also covered is how to proactively avoid paint fill problems. 32 minutes/71.9MB… be patient while loading click here to order & download an HD version [...]

No More Animating in Flash!

Okay, for those of you who haven’t heard, I’ve stopped using Flash for animation. Before I explain why, allow me to be clear—I haven’t stopped using Flash for other projects (web design, motion comics, etc.), I just no longer animate with it. For animation, I switched over to a product from Toon Boom called Animate [...]

A Simple Leg Hierarchy starting from a Rectangle

This is my first tutorial using Toon Boom Animate 2. In this exercise I will convert a rectangle to a leg, then animate the leg using layer hierarchy and the transform tool. If you don’t have a copy of Toon Boom Animate 2, download the FREE PLE version here and follow along. click here to [...]

New Flash Animated Commercial

Hey Campers, here is a look at the first commercial that one of my brainchildren, STUDIO 11D12, is doing for local cable in Atlanta. writing, directing, & animation: Tony Ross character design & animation: Lamont Russ All Voices : Demarcus Hill

Animating Classic Cartoon Eyes in Flash

Here is a basic Flash tutorial to animate cartoon eyes w/ a blink. This tutorial uses Graphic symbols set to Single Frame. I’m using CS4, but this technique is doable in earlier versions of Flash as well, (even before any CS version). 19 minutes/54.5MB… be patient while loading click here to order & download an [...]

Look Ma! FREE 2D Animation Software!

omG! So I was up at about 1am randomly searching Google for stuff, as I do that from time to time, and found a piece of Open Source and or FREE 2D animation software, Pencil. It ROCKS! Enough talk, let me show you. Straight on animation tutorial using Pencil. BTW, using another FREE resource to [...]