Animation software isn’t cheap if you are planning to learn it. However, you can always practice with some free software that comes with drawing and animating capability. I’ve searched on the internet for free software for Mac’s Maverick OS that you can consider if you wish to learn to create your own cartoon video. Continue reading
I had a student, Tom, who had recently completed his animation portfolio. I am very proud of him and I would like to acknowledge his effort in this post.
Over the past 2 years, with consistent 2 hours weekly of contribution to his animation skill, Continue reading
Realistic animations are what fascinates the viewer. The audience is able to fully enjoy the content and the story behind the animation because the motion is believable. One way to make our animations realistic is by adding force in the movement. Continue reading
It’s been sometime since I last posted and yes, I was busy. I’m busy writing out a FREE e-book, titled Animators Starter Kit Learn to Animate with Observation. The name is not confirmed yet but feel free to give suggestion if you have a better name! I’ve given a lot of thoughts for this book as I really want to share my ten years experience in becoming an animator from scratch. Continue reading
If you are new to learning animation, this is the best tutorial to get you started! Every animator starts to learn animation by creating a bouncing ball animation.
In this video tutorial, I’ll guide you to use an animation software called Adobe Flash (version CS4 and above) from creating the file all the way to finishing your bouncing ball Flash animation. So what are you waiting for? Start up your Adobe Flash and lets get started! Continue reading
Now that I’ve created my Flash animation on the timeline, I realized that I need to edit my animation by shifting the animation’s position. The problem here is that when I move the first keyframe, the rest of the animation did not move together. It will be very tedious and time consuming to move the entire key frames manually one by one.
This tutorial will share with you how to move, scale and rotate your entire animation as one object in Adobe Flash (Works on almost all Flash versions). Continue reading