Adobe Fresco: Designing Characters and Sets for Animation
Adobe Fresco: Designing Characters and Sets for Animation, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 5, with 50 lectures, based on 1 reviews, and has 35 subscribers.
You will learn about How to use the tools and features of Fresco How to design a character with proper layer structure to be imported into Animate, After Effects, Character Animator or Moho How to set up a 2-point perspective grid to sketch, ink and color a background that can be imported into your animation How to export in a variety of formats, including images, .pds, videos for time-lapse capture and image sequences for your frame by frame animations This course is ideal for individuals who are Seasoned or beginner animators looking to design their assets in Adobe Fresco It is particularly useful for Seasoned or beginner animators looking to design their assets in Adobe Fresco.
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Summary
Title: Adobe Fresco: Designing Characters and Sets for Animation
Price: $49.99
Average Rating: 5
Number of Lectures: 50
Number of Published Lectures: 50
Number of Curriculum Items: 50
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 50
Original Price: $99.99
Quality Status: approved
Status: Live
What You Will Learn
- How to use the tools and features of Fresco
- How to design a character with proper layer structure to be imported into Animate, After Effects, Character Animator or Moho
- How to set up a 2-point perspective grid to sketch, ink and color a background that can be imported into your animation
- How to export in a variety of formats, including images, .pds, videos for time-lapse capture and image sequences for your frame by frame animations
Who Should Attend
- Seasoned or beginner animators looking to design their assets in Adobe Fresco
Target Audiences
- Seasoned or beginner animators looking to design their assets in Adobe Fresco
Adobe Fresco is a free design application available for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. It’s best used with a stylus and touch controls. And it’s a fantastic app for designing characters and backgrounds for your animated cartoons. With the ability to export .psds, you can take your assets to most animation software and rig without issue, just as long as you have proper layer structuring. And that’s one of the key points you will learn in this course. In addition, you will learn how to:
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Use common Fresco shortcuts and gestures
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Use Pixel, Live and Vector brushes
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Import custom brushes
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Select and Transform artwork with various tools
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Sketch a character for animation
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Ink a character with clean lines
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Color, shade and texture the character
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Add animatable groups like blinks, hand poses and mouth phonemes
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Organize layer structure for easier animation workflow
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Use grids to sketch out proper perspective
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Ink, color and polish a background
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Test Fresco assets in four different animation apps
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Export time-lapse videos of your work
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Animate frame by frame with a Motion Layer
By the time you’re done you will have an understanding of how you can design your assets in Fresco and bring them into your animation software of choice.
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction
Lecture 1: Welcome to Fresco!
Lecture 2: Gaining Access to Fresco
Lecture 3: Configuring App Settings
Lecture 4: Overview of Common Gestures
Lecture 5: Using Primary and Secondary Shortcuts
Lecture 6: How to Access Course Files
Chapter 2: Getting Started with Documents and Brushes
Lecture 1: Creating, Organizing and Saving Fresco Documents
Lecture 2: Inviting Others to Work
Lecture 3: Exporting File Types
Lecture 4: Using and Adjusting Pixel Brushes
Lecture 5: Using Live Brushes
Lecture 6: Using Vector Brushes
Lecture 7: Organizing and Importing Brushes
Lecture 8: Smudging, Filling and Erasing Artwork
Chapter 3: Working with Layers
Lecture 1: Selecting and Transforming Artwork
Lecture 2: Copying, Cutting and Pasting
Lecture 3: Fresco's Layer Types
Lecture 4: Working with Blend Modes and Other Layer Features
Lecture 5: Masking with Layers
Chapter 4: Designing a Character for Animation
Lecture 1: Sketching a Character
Lecture 2: Refining the Sketch
Lecture 3: Inking a Character's Head
Lecture 4: Inking a Character's Body
Lecture 5: Sketching and Inking the Hands
Lecture 6: Applying Basic Coloring to a Character
Lecture 7: Duplicating Limbs
Chapter 5: Adding More Detail and Functionality to Your Character
Lecture 1: Adding More Clothing Details
Lecture 2: Drawing and Grouping Mouth Poses
Lecture 3: Creating a Blink Pose
Lecture 4: Shading the Character
Lecture 5: Highlighting the Character
Lecture 6: Adding Texture
Lecture 7: Organizing, Merging and Naming Layers
Lecture 8: Exporting Character for Animation
Lecture 9: Examining a Character with Head Turns
Chapter 6: Drawing a Background for an Animated Scene
Lecture 1: Using Grids to Sketch the Background
Lecture 2: Adding Basic Colors
Lecture 3: Coloring in More Details
Lecture 4: Inking a Background
Lecture 5: Applying Effects and Polish
Lecture 6: Organizing and Naming Layers
Lecture 7: Exporting Background for Animation
Chapter 7: Animating Your Fresco Artwork
Lecture 1: Testing Assets in Character Animator
Lecture 2: Testing Assets in Animate
Lecture 3: Testing Assets in After Effects
Lecture 4: Testing Assets in Moho Pro 14
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Lecture 1: Organizing and Polishing Assets with Photoshop
Lecture 2: Using the Time Lapse Feature
Lecture 3: Animating Frame-by-Frame with Fresco Layers
Lecture 4: Final Thoughts
Instructors
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Chad Troftgruben
Freelance animator and screencaster
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