‘ANIMATION TRAINING’ Archives
Anime Studio Bone Rigging Tutorial
As promised, here's my character, split apart into pieces to show you how to rig your character's bones in Anime Studio. When rigging bones this way, there's no need to separate the pieces before adding the bones. If you separate them, it'll frustrate you every time you insert your character into a scene and he's in pieces. Step [...]
Character Setup in Anime Studio
Many people have asked me how I setup my characters in Anime Studio, so here's a tutorial. In my opinion, this is the easiest way to setup a character. See how many different body parts there are. By doing it this way, you can lay your character's body parts where they're supposed to go, and simply add the bones. You don't have to worry [...]
Animation Training 1
How to make a cartoon arm: I'll demonstrate an arm in Anime Studio, but it's the same for Creatoon, Toon Boom, or any other program. The only difference may be how you rig it. Here's what the cartoon arm looks like when it's assembled: To make the arm versatile, it should be made from 3 pieces; a hand, forearm, and upper arm. The [...]
Online Animation School- Interpolation Questions
Someone recently asked if it was possible for Creatoon to work similarly to Adobe Flash's Motion Guide. I want to set the motion path for the character, i.e. Zigzag motion without editing it frame by frame. You get where I’m heading? Not being familiar with the program mentioned, this is the best answer I can give you. Yeah. You [...]
Online Animation School- What is the fastest way to insert keyframes?
Many people don't know that Creatoon allows you to insert keyframes in real time! Learn how in this tutorial video. (more...)
Online animation school- How do I make a character talk in Creatoon?
This may seem easy for some people, but for someone new to cartoon animation and unfamiliar with their options, they may be asking, "How do I make my character talk? How do I change the mouth of my character in Creatoon?" If you've already viewed the animation school lesson How do I make eyes blink in Creatoon? , you may have some idea [...]
Online Animation School: Rendering Problems in Creatoon
Are you having problems rendering your NTSC AVI cartoon with Creatoon? I can't tell you how many times I tried to render a finished animation, only to go in each time and view what looked like a big ball of fuzz with some movement in it. After much, much, trial and error, I discovered that there are only a few settings that will render a great [...]
Online animation school- How do I make eyes blink in Creatoon?
Feel free to download this character and put him together. NOTE: You will probably have to re-size some of these parts with the translational tool to make them fit correctly. TIP: Hold the shift key while clicking and dragging the corner dot of the square of the translational tool to make the object change size in its [...]
Computer animation school- How do I make body parts and rig a character for Creatoon 3.0 or 2.5?
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Audio limitations to making cartoons with Creatoon cartoon creation program
Limitations to making cartoons with Creatoon. While I absolutely love Creatoon as a beginner's program for making cartoons, it has it's limitations. One of the big ones is that... you can't render your cartoon with sound! This is an easy work-around, of course. Creatoon will allow you to import sound to lipsync your animation to, [...]
