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The Absolute Absolute Beginners Guide to Pixel and Traditional Animation Part 1- Dots

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Overview

Welcome to Part One of The Absolute Absolute Beginners Guide to Pixel and Traditional Animation! In this first part of my animation series we are going to start at the very beginners level of animation, animating dots. In this class you will learn to animate dots in various different movements from simply creating a wandering dot that moves around the screen to a dot with advanced movements such as dashing and bouncing and how these principles apply to both pixel and traditional animation. In every lesson there is a clear exercise for you do follow along with and then repeat on your own to develop the skill in the same way athletes run drills to perfect their technique in their sport. 

This class uses Aseprite as its animation program, its a very affordable and user friendly program and offers a trial version of the program with restrictions. If you are afraid of jumping into a new program then look no further than Irving Brews class "The Beginners Guide to Aseprite" to learn all of the ins and outs of this wonderful program. Click the link below to go to "The Beginners Guide to Aseprite"

https://skl.sh/2QRml29

Syllabus

  • Animation Class Introduction
  • Animation Class Overview
  • Assignment 1- Wandering Dot
  • Assignment 2- Looping Dot
  • Assignment 3- Arcs
  • Assignment 4- Traveling and Pausing Dots
  • Assignment 5- Key framed dots
  • Assignment 6- Ease in Dots
  • Assignment 7- Multi Dot Trails
  • Assignment 8- Timing Chart Dots
  • Assignment 9 Roller coaster Dots
  • Assignment 10- Hard Knocking Dots
  • Assignment 11- Infinite Bouncing Dot
  • Assignment 12- Descending Bouncing Dot
  • Assignment 13- The Character Dot
  • Assignment 14- Dashing Dot
  • Animation Class Outro

Taught by

Parker Pierce

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