2d Digital Animation
2d animation is the art of creating movement in a two dimensional space.
2d digital animation. This includes characters creatures fx and backgrounds. The technique was the dominant form of animation in cinema until the advent of computer animation. Students will explore professional workflows as they develop animation and illustration skills working on original projects. Student will initially learn fundamental of art and design by manual drawing and then they will learn character design background painting character animation audio and video editing by using advance digital tools.
From toy story to flash cartoons animation has captivated the world for years. Student will learn all the aspects of 2d animation film making from pre production production and post production. Students will learn hands on completing a series of animated short films applying the knowledge learned as well as take a more in depth look into software adobe animate cc. By sequencing individual drawings together over time characters backgrounds objects and effects look as if they are moving.
The program allows you to create beautiful stop motion animations easily and quickly without complicated software or previous knowledge. You can plug your dslr and take the pictures with the program taking full control of all the settings in the camera. Animation is a wild thing. Traditional animation or classical animation cel animation hand drawn animation 2d animation or just 2d is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand.
Students will learn hands on the principles of 2d digital animation that are needed to bring your own characters to life and how to design and digitally animate their very own characters using adobe animate formerly adobe flash wacom tablets. Using this software you can apply geometric filters distortions gradients and transformation to your animation. Specifically 2d animation has roots in history going back to the advent of movies. The illusion of movement is created when individual drawings are sequenced together over time.
One second of time is usually divided into 24 frames. Intro to 2d animation digital illustration allows students to explore digital illustration using adobe photoshop and animation with toon boom harmony. Following asofs intro to 2d digital animation course students will learn and cover advanced animation topics over the course of a weekend. This also ties into gaming as well.