Introduction to Traditional Animation with Photoshop

You will start the course knowing Numecaniq, who will tell you about his beginnings, motivations and vocation within the world of animation. It will also show you some of its main influences that inspire you to this day.

You will see how the first steps were to discover the principles of animation, mentioning some of the great exponents of animation, and also, where the sector is pointing.

You will continue to know your working tool: Adobe Photoshop; and the simplest way to make animations with this software. In addition, you will see coloring methods, some extensions that will be very useful and tips for exporting files.

Numecaniq will explain the basic principles of animation, then address the elements that make up an animated piece and how they interact.

Then, through a series of examples and exercises, you will learn the 12 principles of picture-by-frame animation divided into two parts: first the principles of design and then those of movement. Then you will delve into the third element, the concept, about which you will see some techniques to generate it and you will see some examples of GIF series under a theme that you can take as reference for your final project.

At the end of this course, you will have all the necessary knowledge to create animations full of life and naturalness.