Best Animation Exercise for Beginners - OpenToonz - How to Animate 2D Animation Class

Best Animation Exercise for Beginners - OpenToonz - How to Animate 2D Animation Class

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Closing gaps

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Closing gaps

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Best Animation Exercise for Beginners - OpenToonz - How to Animate 2D Animation Class

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Setting up OpenToonz
  3. 3 Plan the motion path with a lot of pleasing arcs.
  4. 4 Using the Control Point Editor
  5. 5 Changing the opacity of a layer
  6. 6 The biggest beginner mistakes in animation
  7. 7 The key to smooth animation
  8. 8 Timing charts
  9. 9 The halfing method for planning spacings
  10. 10 Onion skin
  11. 11 Creating the animation frames
  12. 12 Stretching to create motion blur
  13. 13 Keeping the volumes
  14. 14 Copying frames to stay on model
  15. 15 Copying on the timeline in OpenToonz
  16. 16 Making layer invisible
  17. 17 First playback
  18. 18 Get our cool mug!
  19. 19 Switching from Ones to Twos
  20. 20 The challenge of slower motions
  21. 21 Improvising straight ahead
  22. 22 Holding a constant speed
  23. 23 Fast motion in the spiral
  24. 24 Adding anticipation after a hold
  25. 25 Playing the loop
  26. 26 Tweaking the animation
  27. 27 Duplicating and offsetting the second ball
  28. 28 Coloring
  29. 29 Closing gaps
  30. 30 Adding different colors to the different layers

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