Instructor: Kurt Jones
Runtime: 1h 43m
Level: Beginner
Software used: Toon Boom Harmony
Video Format: FLV
Resolution: 1280×720
File Size: 390 MB
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In this Toon Boom tutorial, you’ll learn a good understanding of the tools needed to create your own character designs and walk through the process of creating a cartoon duck character to be used for cut styled animation.
Even though we’ll be using Toon Boom Harmony to design our character, everything that we’ll be covering will be applicable to both Toon Boom Animate and Animate Pro. Read more…
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Instructor: Kurt Jones
Runtime: 1h 25m
Level: Beginner
Software used: Photoshop CS6
Video Format: FLV
Resolution: 1280×720
File Size: 737 MB
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By gaining a better understanding of how we can translate lines to forms, you’ll be able to breath added-life into your own drawings and sketches.
We’ll begin this process by examining what defines a line, shape, and form. From there we’ll explore how we can use contour lines and cross contour lines to add more dimension to a flat object. Following this, we’ll learn about line weights and how we can apply them to add volume. Along the way we’ll also explore how we can capture action and movement by drawing continual gesture lines. Read more…
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Instructor: Kurt Jones
Runtime: 2h 13m
Level: Intermediate
Software used: Photoshop CS6
Video Format: FLV
Resolution: 1280×720
File Size: 1.97 GB
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We’ll begin this process by examining our original photo and walking through some specific steps to prepare it before blocking in any photographic elements or textures. Following this we’ll examine an image of some flames and explore how we can weave various parts of these flames into our photo using free transform and layer masks in photoshop. Read more…
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Instructor: Kurt Jones
Runtime: 1h 6m
Level: Beginner
Software used: Photoshop CS6
Video Format: FLV
Resolution: 1280×720
File Size: 544 MB
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We’ll begin this course by learning about some of the basic features of the video portion of the timeline panel where we’ll learn how to import video clips and do some basic editing.
From there we’ll spend the next several lessons focusing on other visual editing techniques such as using adjustment layers, smart filters, key frames, layer masks and animating with layer styles. Read more…
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Instructor: Kurt Jones
Runtime: 1h 51m
Level: Intermediate
Software used: Photoshop CS6
Video Format: FLV
Resolution: 1280×720
File Size: 1.59 GB
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By utilizing the techniques and approaches applied in this tutorial, you’ll be able to add another level of creativity to your own photo manipulation projects.
We’ll begin this process by examining our original photo containing our head sculpture which will be the main focal point of our final scene. We’ll learn how we can separate our head sculpture from it’s original background by using the quick mask tool and a layer mask. Read more…
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Instructor: Kurt Jones
Runtime: 2h 49m
Level: Intermediate
Software used: Photoshop CS6
Video Format: FLV
Resolution: 1280×720
File Size: 1.89 GB
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We’ll begin this training by starting with a sketch of our forest creature, along with visualizing the environment that our concept exists in. From there, we’ll spend several lessons using some different methods of blocking in textures to develop and evolve the look of our forest creature. As we apply our textures we’ll be working in grayscale so that we can focus on maintaining our values first. Read more…
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Run Time: 1h 2m
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Author: Kurt Jones
Required Software: Photoshop CS6
Video Format: FLV
Resolution: 1280×720
File Size: 682 MB
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We will begin this process by learning what atmosphere is by looking at some real life examples and discuss how light interacts with atmosphere. From there we’ll study some other examples of atmospheric effects such as misty and foggy conditions as well as sunsets. Along the way we’ll explore how we can incorporate these different atmospheric effects into an illustration. Read more…
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Run Time: 1h 28m
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Author: Kurt Jones
Required Software: Photoshop CS6
Video Format: FLV
Resolution: 1280×720
File Size: 1.17 GB
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We’ll begin this process by learning what a phoneme is and how we can begin to represent these different phonemes in the form of mouth expressions for character lip syncing. From there we’ll draw out ten essential mouth expressions. Each mouth expression will represent one or multiple phonemes. Finally, we’ll finish by taking some of our mouth expressions and organize them into a sequence to sound out a couple of words Read more…
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Run Time: 1h 40m
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Author: Kurt Jones
Required Software: Photoshop CS6
Format: FLV
Resolution: 1280×720
File Size: 763 MB
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Welcome to this series of tutorials focusing on creating a 2D avatar based on a photo reference. We will begin this process by discussing what an avatar is and how it can represent a user in a digital form. We’ll also examine the photo that we’ll be referencing and explore sketching a caricature based off this photo to be used as our avatar. Read more…
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