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Complete Beginners 2D Character, and Background Design Course for Animation using Inkscape (Udemy Course Review)

Easy Cartoon Backgrounds and Character Design for Animation. I stumbled across Martin Belvisi's two Udemy courses, Easy Cartoon Backgrounds for Animation , and Cartoon Character Design for Animation , because I was actually looking for a beginners course to teach me the fundamentals of illustration with the free vector art application, Inkscape . Since my exact reason for wanting to learn Inkscape more thoroughly was to use it for making assets for 2D animation it seemed like a no brainer to purchase both courses. Even more so because I got both at heavily discounted prices through one of Udemy's frequent, sitewide sales.  What really sold it for me is thumbnail images used to represent each course. That background and those characters look as good as any professional, modern day, 2D animated cartoon, and they were drawn in Inkscape (which has a definite low perception problem despite it being an incredibly powerful and capable vector art tool). This stylized background looks
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My First Anthropomorphic Character with Reallusion's Character Creator 3 (Pipeline) & Reviving My TETAnimations YouTube Channel

Skateboarding Cage Monster - Heelflip. Reallusion's Character Creator 3  is a pretty incredible application for creating any kind of human digital 3D character quickly. Its power comes from the way it can totally deform a standard human base template character into a seemingly infinite number of body types and shapes. While I wouldn't recommended it as a your only 3D character sculpting tool, it is very powerful with just how much you can edit a character's form at the vertex/mesh level. I've experimented a little with CC3's Edit mesh functions, mostly using it to hide areas of an object I don't want seen. Bat Storm's cape is a good example where I used the ability to hide vertices to completely remove the assassin's hood from the neckline up. Just on a whim I wondered if I could create my Cage Monster character entirely in CC3 (with exception to his skin textures which I edited in Krita). The character is basically a stylised human body with a monster
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Jarrad Wright, The Big Lez Show - Who Would've thought Animating with MS Paint Could Take You So Far?

A friend of mine recommended I should check out The Big Lez Show after I mentioned to him I make animations for living. He said the show's creator, Australian animator, Jarrad Wright , just makes episodes from his home using MS Paint. Somewhat shamefully I hadn't heard of The Big Lez Show, but the fact that it was being made with MS Paint absolutely hooked me into checking out. If you've never heard or seen the show then you, like I was, are probably thinking how good could it be? MS Paint has kind of a cult following of hardcore animators but no one would use it as their primary animation tool on a series, right? WARNING - before going any further, you need to know The Big Lez Show and its humor contains some pretty strong language. By strong I mean it's peppered very liberally with the 'F' and 'C' words and is very every day Aussie, blue collar speak. Unapologetically, all of that, is part of why it's so good. There's a good chance you've
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After Effects for the Rest of Us - Reallusion Release Cartoon Animator 4.3 with Game Changing Export Modes

Now you can add 'After Effects' to your Cartoon Animator 4.3 projects in any video application. This blur and halftone effect was applied in Shotcut Video Editor. Reallusion released Cartoon Animator Update 4.3 with much fanfare about its new Adobe After Effects plugin which is a game changer all on its own.  The ability to export a CA4 project with its layers intact into AE for additional video compositing should be a head turner for industry pros looking to take advantage of some of CA4's more unique features and reduced workflows. For those of us not in the Adobe ecosystem (and there are a lot of you out there) Reallusion did not leave you without something to get excited about. Also in the 4.3 update is the ability to export your project as an Object Based Sequence . Essentially this exports each element of your project to its own folder, audio included. If an object has any animation on it at all it will be exported as sequentially numbered, transparent PNG files. Thi
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Stylish Stick Figures for Cartoon Animator 4.2 - New Characters by TET

Stylish Stick Figures by TET. Animating stick figures is almost a right of passage for any animator who has ever made an old fashioned flipbook or discovered the free stickman animator app, Pivot Animator . There's also the hugely popular viral stick figure animation, Animator Versus Animation  and its sequels by Alan Becker that continue to inspire variations more than 12 years later. Back when Vyond was GoAnimate they had a stick figure theme that was popular site wide despite having many other themes with much more refined Saturday morning cartoon style characters. I even had my own stick figure series, Harry Chalk , on GoAnimate. Long story short, I was looking through the Reallusion Cartoon Animator Marketplace and discovered there really weren't any well designed, traditional looking stick figure characters. That's not to say there weren't any at all but I wanted something similar to GoAnimate's stick figures which included full facial features and male and
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Shotcut - Free Open Source Video Editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Shotcut Open Source Video Editor. I've been on the hunt for a while now for the best, free, open source, video editing application out there. In Shotcut , by Meltytech , which has versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, I think I may have found a real front runner. This won't be a feature filled review, rather it will be my first impressions after having used Shotcut on a few of my YouTube videos so far. One of my key criteria for a video editor is the ability to import any video format directly into the project. This may seem like an odd focus initially but having convert video to something your video editor can use is annoyingly time consuming, and it creates a new generation of footage, potentially with a loss in quality if you don't really know much about video format specs (that's this guy right here!). Shotcut will happily work with my OBS recordings (.FLV), and .MOV, .MP4 files that I get from two different cameras. Not only that but Shotcut doesn't hold me up
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Learn 2D Animation | Tutorial for Beginners | Easy to Follow Mini Video Course for Busy People

Anime Scene by 2D Animation 101. Learn how to produce animation like this. Learn 2D animation with a tutorial for beginners that is an easy to follow mini video course for busy people. Get started by devoting just ten minutes a day to learn the step by step plan you need to make it easy to produce your own 2D animations. 2D Animation 101 presents a free 2D animation foundation course that runs you through the entire process of producing professional, cinema quality animation, from idea through to finished production using Cartoon Animator 4 as your primary animation studio. Each section of the course includes a few short videos that can be viewed in around ten minutes, with the whole course taking just five days overall (ten minutes per day). At the end of the course you'll receive three free printable workbooks to help produce your next animation using the step-by-step plan you just learned. If you've always wanted to produce your own animated cartoons but thought you could
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