Create Hand Drawn Character Animations Using Photoshop

Turn hand drawn sketches, characters, typography, and videos into looping animations.

What you'll learn
Create simple frame animations using Photoshop
Give life to pencil drawn sketches digitally.
Add color, lights, and shadows to illustrations
Turn a video into a realistic animation
Add movement to a typography illustration
Requirements
Basic Photoshop skills
Basic hand drawing, but not obligatory
Description
Update - Apr/8/2016: Added an extra section to learn to create illustration in Illustrator and Sketch 3. Each lecture can be watched individually to learn different skills (no need to watch them in order).Update - Oct/10/2015: Added a section that teaches you how to use vector shapes, smart objects and the video timeline. You'll end up with a smooth playing cat animation.
Update - Aug/2/2015: Added a lecture to reuse the assets of the cupcake animation to create a new one.
On this course you'll learn to turn hand drawn sketches into animations using Photoshop. You'll learn to add some dance moves to a pencil drawing of a robot. We'll create a happy jumping cupcake that never gets tired. We'll add some vibrancy to typography. We'll create a smooth cat animation using video timeline, vector shapes, and smart objects. And we'll create a realistic animation by tracing on top of a video.
This course will teach you basic animation principles and how to apply them using simple Photoshop tools.
The course is separated in independent sections. You can start the section that most interests you without worrying about having to take the other ones to understand the context. Each section has its own downloadable materials that you can use.
Take this course if you're curious about animation and want to have some fun creating silly GIF doodles. This is not a professional animation course! It's just to learn a cool skill.

Overview

Lecture 1 Introduction to the basic animation in Photoshop course

Section 1: Creating a jumping cupcake in Photoshop

Lecture 2 Cupcake animation introduction

Lecture 3 Creating an animated cupcake on Photoshop

Lecture 4 Adding color to an animated cupcake on Photoshop

Lecture 5 Exporting your cupcake animation as a GIF image or MP4 video

Lecture 6 BONUS: Make the cupcake jump in and out of scene

Section 2: Cat animation using video timeline and vector shapes

Lecture 7 Cat animation introduction

Lecture 8 Let's illustrate this cat with vector shapes

Lecture 9 Animate your cat using the video timeline and smart objects

Lecture 10 Export your cat animation as an animated GIF

Section 3: Turning a video into a realistic animation

Lecture 11 Introduction to realistic animation

Lecture 12 Creating a realistic animation tracing on top of a video

Lecture 13 Export your realistic animation as a GIF image or MP4 video

Section 4: Turning pencil drawn sketches into a digital animation using Photoshop

Lecture 14 Introduction to pencil drawn animation

Lecture 15 Let's draw our robot on paper

Lecture 16 Putting together your hand drawn robot on Photoshop and making it dance

Lecture 17 Exporting your dancing robot animation as a GIF image or MP4 video

Section 5: Giving life to typography by adding animation

Lecture 18 Introduction to the typography animation section

Lecture 19 Create a typography animation using Photoshop

Lecture 20 Exporting our animated typography as a GIF image or MP4 video

Section 6: The 12 basic principles of animation by Disney

Lecture 21 Introduction to the 12 basic principles

Lecture 22 The Illusion of Life (by cento lodigiani)

Section 7: Extra Content!

Lecture 23 Avatar Illustration using Adobe Illustrator

Lecture 24 Illustration of Frida Kahlo using Adobe Illustrator

Lecture 25 Cute Illustration using Sketch 3

People who want to have fun creating silly doodles,This course is for animation beginners,This course won't teach you 3D animation