ANIMATION TUTORIALS PAGE

 

The following is a growing list of tutorials that you may find helpful as you explore new processes or need to refresh on old ones.

These are NOT assignment documents. If you are working on a weekly animation assignment please refer to the Weekly Class Schedule

as there are will be additional details you will need to complete any given assignment.

 

 

FEATURED TUTORIALS

 

How to Submit a Helpdesk Ticket

 

Free Downloadable Digital Painting Tutorials

 

 

 

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Bridge

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Premiere Pro & Premire Rush

Chronosync

Dragonframe

Lasercut Animation Workflow

Motion Control

Quicktime 7

Smart Phone Animation

Story App

Storyreel

Six-Second Film Strip

Toon Boom

TV Paint

Zoom Pixilation

Miscilanious Tutorials

 

 

 

 

Adobe After Effects

 

Jazz Lip-Sync/After Effects: Composite Tutorial Videos (10 minutes)

 

 

 

 

Adobe Bridge/Image Sorting

 

Re-Arrange and Batch Rename in Adobe Bridge

 

Bridge-Reversing Image Sequences in Adobe Bridge.pdf

 

Bridge-Sorting Images in Adobe Bridge.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Adobe Photoshop

 

Animating GIFs in Photoshop.pdf

 

Batch Resizing Using Photo Shop.pdf

 

Exporting Photoshop Layers Sequence Files.pdf

 

Sweeten, Frame, Convert and Export Pitchable Panels (Video 03:12)

 

Corrie Frances-Parks: Photoshop Animation Workflow (Video 20 minutes)

 

Free Downloadable Digital Painting Tutorials

 

 

 

Adobe Premiere Pro

 

Six Panel Story: Simple Story Reel Edit in Premiere Pro (6 Videos 12 Minutes)

 

Premeire-Quick Start Guide.pdf

 

Premiere-Project Set Up, Edit and Export.pdf

 

Premiere-Beginner How-to Video Editing Techniques.pdf

 

How to Reduce Video File Size in Premiere Pro

Six Panel Fiction - Premiere Pro Workflow

 

 

Adobe Premiere Rush

Adobe Premiere Rush Turorials Page

Creating a Black Screen in Adobe Rush

Six Panel Fiction - Adobe Rush Workflow Adobe Rush to Premiere Pro

 

 

Chronosync/File Management

 

Chronosync Video Tutorials: Complete Playlist (3 Videos 6 Minutes/1 PDF)

 

Project File Structure Workflow and Organization.pdf

 

01: Set Up Personal Hard Drive 01:03

 

02: Sync Personal Hard Drive to Network/Class Folders 02:45

 

03: Setting up a Sync Container 01:57

 

 

Dragonframe

 

Dragonframe-Quickstart Guide for Downshooters-Set Up, Animate and Export.pdf

 

Dragonframe-Lipsync_X-sheetTutorial.pdf

 

EOS Live-viewcalibration cap.pdf

 

CMU Dragonframe-Setting up and Exporting in 4K

 

 

For a whole library of official Dragonframe video tutorials go here. . .

 

www.dragonframe.com/tutorials

 

DF Audio/Lip Sync Tutorials

 

Dragonframe Basics (01:53)

 

Audio Workspace Overview (05:55)

 

Track Reading (13:01)

 

Creating a Face Set (04:24)

 

 

Lasercut Animation Workflow

 

Converting Toon Boom Animation to Illustrator for Lasercutting

 

 

Motion Control

Dragonframe Spectrum - Real Time Interface

Dragonframe TB3 Set-up

eMotimo TB3 Detailed Setup

eMotimo TB3 Manual Trigger Mode

TB3 Motion Control Assembly

eMotimo Precision Turntable Overview

eMotimo Turntable Instructions - Three Configurations

eMotimo Precision Cart Overview

eMotimo TB3 with Slider - 3 Axis repeatable motion

 

 

Quicktime 7

 

Quicktime 7 Pro-Converting an Image Sequence.pdf

 

Creating an Image Sequence in Quicktime 7 Pr0.pdf

 

 

 

Storyreel

 

StoryReel 1 - Thumbnails to Action Beats - all videos 45 min.

StoryReel 2 - Set Up Camera Tool in Photoshop - all videos 4 min.

StoryReel 3 - Simulating Camera Moves - all videos 30 min.

StoryReel 4 - Shot Labels and Time Code - 10 min.
 

 

Smart Phone Animation

 

Smart Phone Animation Instructions

 

Stop Motion Studio - Overview Page

 

Stop Motion Studio - Tutorial Page

 

DYI Table-top Smart Phone Downshooter

 

DYI Downshooter with a Selfie Stick

 

DYI Cardboard Downshooter Stand

 

 

 

 

 

 

Story App Web-Page & Video Tutorials

 

Offical JSL Story App Page

 

Story App Tutorials: Complete Playlist (5 Videos 11 minutes)

 

 

 

 

 

Six-Second Film Strip

 

Six-second Film Strip Page

 

 

 

 

 

Toon Boom

 

ToonBoom_Activation & Support Page

 

ZeBirdBrain Tutorials

 

Toon Boom Harmony

 

JSL - Harmony Tutorial Page

 

ART220 - Harmony Tutorial Page

 

ART320 - Harmony Tutorial Page

 

Toon Boom Harmony E-learning Courses

 

ART220 - Demo Page

 

Alter Ego Lipsync - Demo Page

 

 

 

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro

 

ART 308 Storyboard Pro Tutorial Page

 

Ze Bird Brain Youtube Storyboard Pro Playlist

 

Storyboard Pro E-learning Courses

 

Storyboard Pro Storyboarding Artist Journey

 

 

Toon Boom Layout

 

Assemble Scene from a Photoshop File


How to Export a Storyboard Pro Scenes to Harmony Project

 

Flying Machine - Z-Depth & MultiPlane Demo

 

 

 

 

 

 

TV Paint

 

1.Introducing the Interface

 

2.Create and Save a Project

 

3.Animation Basics

 

4.Inbetween and Light Table

 

5.Coloring with CTG Layers: the Basics

 

Storyboarding/Storyreel in TV Paint

 

Exporting Story Thumbnail Pages in TV Paint

 

TVP Keyboard Shortcuts 2018

 

 

 

 

Miscilanious Tutorials

 

Free Downloadable Digital Painting Tutorials

 

How to Submit a Helpdesk Ticket

 

Formatting Hard Drive to Mac/PC in Three Easy Steps

 

How to Reserve a Downshooter

 

Setting up a VPN

 

Syncing your Phone to Google Photos

 

BCA_Check-out System Video Training Page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stephan Leeper/Central Michigan University 2020