Animation

Your Online Guide for Learning How to Animate A step-by-step guide for a career in animation, or just for fun! Dramatic shot by António Vieira Considering a Career in the Animation Industry? This guide will show you what professional animators do and share how to get started on your own animation career. It will outline the skills and education you need, as well as key steps to getting a job as a professional animator. Animation Studios & The Animation Pipeline Animation is a broad discipline with many facets and specialties. Before we jump in, let’s look at some of the behind-the-scenes steps that studios go through to make your favorite animated films. First, imagine that an animation studio is a machine made up of many moving parts. In this case the parts are departments, people, and projects and together they build visual stories. You can break down the assembly line of this machine, let’s call it the Film Production Pipeline, into three large groups: • Pre-production is the earliest stage of the film, and involves things like script writing, storyboarding, visual development, and others. It’s where a lot of the story’s building blocks are created. • Production is the middle stage and includes pieces like character modeling, rigging, and animation. This is where much of the building happens, using those initial blocks to shape the story. • Post-production is the final stage, including compositing, VFX, and color correction. This last step is about the details, polishin...

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See J. Stuart Blackton's animated movie “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” With the invention of sprocket-driven film stock, animation was poised for a great leap forward. Although “firsts” of any kind are never easy to establish, the first film-based animator appears to be Haunted Hotel. In France, Émile Cohl was developing a form of animation similar to Blackton’s, though Cohl used relatively crude stick figures rather than Blackton’s ambitious newspaper-style cartoons. Coinciding with the rise in popularity of the Sunday comic sections of the new tabloid newspapers, the Mutt and Jeff) and Krazy Kat), but most soon tired of the fatiguing animation process and left the actual production work to others. Take a look at a video clip from Winsor McCay's “Gertie on Tour” The one great exception among these early illustrators-turned-animators was Dream of the Rarebit Fiend remain McCay made several other extraordinary films, including a re-creation of The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918), but it was left to Pat Sullivan to extend McCay’s discoveries. An Australian-born cartoonist who opened a studio in Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. This lesson did not go unremarked by the young Far more revolutionary was Disney’s decision to create a cartoon with the novelty of synchronized sound. Flowers and Trees, 1932), and the illusion of depth with his multiplane camera ( The Old Mill, 1937). With each step, Disney seemed to come closer to a perfe...

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One of the most common questions I get (almost on a daily basis) is: “I want to get into animation. Where do I start?” In this massive guide I try to cover (almost) everything you might need to know about animation if you're trying to get into the animation industry. I'll cover some of the basic concepts of animation, vocabulary, principles, software, hardware, books, courses as well as some of the options for people who want to get into the animation industry, but are overwhelmed or intimidated. I'll go over what is animation, what it takes to make animated movies (2D or 3D), and even how to start looking for a job in the industry. Easy to learn, hard to Master It's easier to get into animation today than ever before. Software's getting cheaper (or even free), and most modern computers can handle the more simple animation tasks (mostly 2D). The catch is that although anyone can start animating right now, the art of animation still takes time to master. The good news is... You don't need to be a Disney-grade animator to create really cool animations. You can start small and simple and slowly develop your skills and unique style. And also... We built an Animation Foundations course Learn the basic principles of character animation, including a survey of the different types of animation, basic vocabulary, and the 12 principles of animation. If you’re just starting out and want to make sure your basics are covered – this course is the best place to start. Animation is the art...

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