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Mastering 2D Animation (Udemy.com)

Learn to be a master 2D animator, using hand-drawn and digital techniques.

4.6
346 reviews

Created by: Tony White

Last updated May 2018

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What you will learn

  • "Mastering 2D Animation: 01" will cover the following topics and many more...
  • A brief history of animation.
  • The production process of traditional 2D animation.
  • Overview of equipment required to create 2D animation, traditional and digital.
  • Principles of movement including weight, charting, squash and stretch.
  • How to execute a perfect, pencil-drawn Bouncing Ball.
  • How to execute a colored, digital bouncing ball in an entertaining vector-based, ToonBoom Studio supported environment.
  • How to animate a perfect hand-drawn Generic Walk.
  • How to animate a rigged, ToonBoom Studio character, walking through a vector-based digital environment.
  • Instruction on drawing techniques for animation.

How it compares

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  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 74% of them
  • Reviews346#99 of 294 by number of reviews
  • Length6 hourslonger than 73% of them
  • Last updatedMay 2018earlier than 88% of them

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Course Description

Award-winning master animator, author and teacher Tony White offers 29 outstanding online tutorials on the core principles and techniques of 2D animation. Through extensive illustrated text-based lectures and over 4 hours of over-the-shoulder, apprentice-style video tutorials, Tony offers the finest foundation material possible in here presenting "Mastering 2D Animation"!

Each of Tony's tutorials embrace a comprehensive, step-by-step, apprentice-style of instruction, using both classically hand-drawn techniques and vector digital ones. Students should note that the core principles of movement taught in this course material however can always be applied to ALL forms of animation - from '3D' to 'Stop-frame', from 'Cut-out' to 'Claymation'!

(Note: The digital elements of this course are demonstrated using ToonBoom Studio. However, ToonBoom Technologies have since replaced 'Studio' with 'Harmony Essentials'. So students are strongly advised to obtain a rudimentary knowledge of this software before studying the digital aspects in this course. That way they will be better able to translate the 'Studio' instructions with the 'Harmony Essentials' ones without too much trouble.)

Tony believes the 'apprenticeship' style of teaching is the ONLY way to really learn animation and that the instruction offered by some of the big, for-profit animation schools and colleges around the world is entirely inadequate for the modern professional world. Consequently, by literally drawing from his own early apprenticeship experiences with three of the finest master animators of all-time - Richard Williams (3 times Oscar winner), Ken Harris (Warner Brothers) & Art Babbit (Disney) - Tony has crafted here a series of unique and defining courses that are knowledgeable, accessible and perfectly suited to studies in a home-based environment.
Who this course is for:
Suitable for students of all interests but specifically...
Anyone seeking to make 2D animation his or her career objective.
Current students who want to supplement their existing animation course with the most comprehensive animation training available.
Existing professional animators who want to raise the level of their own work.
Professional artists and illustrators who want to see their drawings move.
Animation teachers who want to expand their knowledge of animation knowledge and teaching practices in the classroom.
Home-based enthusiasts who want to animate as well as they did in the golden days of Hollywood animation.
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Instructor Details

Tony White

Tony White is a British Academy Award-winning animation director, animator, author and instructor. At the beginning of his career, he personally studied advanced animation techniques with some of the finest masters of the art-form. Specifically: Ken Harris (original lead animator of "Bugs Bunny," "Roadrunner," etc.), Art Babbit (original lead animator on "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," etc.) and Richard Williams (3 times Oscar winner and author of "The Animator's Survival Kit"). In addition to his 30+ years in the animation industry - where he made over 200 TV commercials, 2 TV Specials, several Short Films and the titles for "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" movie - Tony also has over 12 years full-time teaching experience at the highest level in the USA. Tony is founder of the "2D ACADEMY", which seeks to preserve, teach and evolve the art-form of traditional animation in this digital age. Indeed, it is Tony's ultimate ambition to provide a rare atelier-style studio/academy experience for his students, where they can gain industry experience by apprenticing with master professionals on original animated film projects. Tony's best-selling books include: "The Animator's Workbook"; "Animation from Pencils to Pixels ~ Classical Tech

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4.6

346 ratings on Udemy

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By Yashwardhan on 8/26/2020

Yes. Had a flip book as a kid, and made animations in All my text books!?

By Tae Ho Song on 8/13/2020

This course helped me have the concept about 2D animation.

By CarieandTodd on 8/13/2020

Easy to Understand and Easy to Follow...

By Ben Hall on 8/13/2020

Yes very detailed in the explanations and drawings.

By Himanshu Kumar on 6/21/2020

I started 2d animation but i don't how to start and how to animate our correcter.This lectures are really helpful for me.

By Mischa K on 6/11/2020

For getting to grips with the basics and being given the opportunity to learn from a Master.

By Saraswathi Vinod on 4/26/2020

I wasn't aware that I'd need peg bars and lighting instruments. That came as a surprise but that's not the fault of the course, it's my folly- I knew nothing about animation before this. During the lockdown it will be hard for me to procure these things, so maybe I'll skip on directly to the 3D part (I know that is not the purpose of this course but there is no denying the ease of computer animation).

By Daniel R. Miller on 4/16/2020

The course needs to be updated so its compatible with the latest version of toon boom, the interface in the videos doesn't really match up with what I downloaded. I was also expecting more instruction than just the bouncing ball and the walk. Mastering 2D animation is a bit of a stretch on this, it should be something like Introduction to 2D Animation or 2D Animation Basics.

By Tamatiihaka Ihaka on 3/25/2020

Great

By Ron Weber on 3/17/2020

Excellent Animation Instruction!

By Martin Ramos on 1/16/2020

Good info just. Boring

By Joan Moreira on 1/6/2020

Loved the animation and I cant wait to learn more

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