Hand Drawn Animation: Creating a personalized gif in Photoshop

Have you ever wanted to spruce up your website or social with fun, personalized animated gifs? It’s actually pretty simple! In this class, you’ll learn the basics of traditional animation and how to use the video timeline tool in Photoshop to create fun hand drawn animations. This class will be a great first step for anyone who is familiar with photoshop and wants to start learning animation.

What you’ll learn:

• Fundamentals of traditional 2D animation
• Setting up photoshop file 

• Basics of the video timeline tool

• Creating layer frames to animate characters and text

• Workflow and organization of frames
• Animating with a video layer

• Exporting your animation as a video or animated gif

What you’ll make:

At the end of the class, you will have created a personalized hand drawn gif that will impress others, as well as some useful skills to create additional personalized animations.

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