Toon Boom Studio Tutorial – Cartoon Animation Made Simple

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: 01. Introduction

Lecture 1: Important – Working Files – Download These First

Lecture 2: 0101 Introduction

Chapter 2: 02. Interface

Lecture 1: 0201 Exploring Workspaces

Lecture 2: 0202 Customizing Workspaces

Lecture 3: 0203 Toolbars And Views

Lecture 4: 0204 Timeline – Adding Elements

Lecture 5: 0205 Onion Skin And Light Table

Lecture 6: 0206 Shortcut Keys

Chapter 3: 03. Drawing Tools

Lecture 1: 0301 Shape Tools

Lecture 2: 0302 Polyline Tool

Lecture 3: 0303 Pencil Tool

Lecture 4: 0304 Brush tool

Lecture 5: 0305 Pen tools

Lecture 6: 0306 Contour Editor

Chapter 4: 04. Optimizing Drawings

Lecture 1: 0401 Smoothing

Lecture 2: 0402 Cutting And Erasing

Lecture 3: 0403 Converting Lines To Fills

Lecture 4: 0404 Grouping Drawings

Lecture 5: 0405 Flattening

Chapter 5: 05. Color Palette

Lecture 1: 0501 Color Basics

Lecture 2: 0502 Custom Colors

Lecture 3: 0503 Closing Gaps

Lecture 4: 0504 Using Gradients

Lecture 5: 0505 Applying Textures

Lecture 6: 0506 Palettes And Styles

Chapter 6: 06. Importing Files

Lecture 1: 0601 Importing Bitmaps

Lecture 2: 0602 Importing Illustrator And PDF Files

Lecture 3: 0603 Importing Sound

Lecture 4: 0604 Import And Vectorize

Lecture 5: 0605 Importing Movies

Chapter 7: 07. Animating In Toon Boom Studio

Lecture 1: 0701 Frames And Keyframes

Lecture 2: 0702 Pivot Points And Rotation

Lecture 3: 0703 Easing

Lecture 4: 0704 Layers And Hierarchies

Lecture 5: 0705 Pegs

Lecture 6: 0706 Motion Tool

Lecture 7: 0707 Using The X-Sheet

Lecture 8: 0708 Straight Ahead Animation

Lecture 9: 0709 Pose to Pose Animation

Lecture 10: 0710 Creating Cycles

Chapter 8: 08. Drawing By Hand

Lecture 1: 0801 Rough Animations And Clean-Up

Lecture 2: 0802 Rotoscoping

Lecture 3: 0803 Annotation Notes

Lecture 4: 0804 Power Painting

Chapter 9: 09. Cutout Characters

Lecture 1: 0901 Best Practices For Cutout Characters

Lecture 2: 0902 Cutting Up A Character – Body

Lecture 3: 0903 Cutting Up A Character – Head

Lecture 4: 0904 Assembling Characters

Lecture 5: 0905 Pivot Points

Lecture 6: 0906 Hiding Hinges And Joints

Lecture 7: 0907 Animating With Cutout Characters

Lecture 8: 0908 Drawing Substitutions

Lecture 9: 0909 Storing Your Characters

Chapter 10: 10. Animating With Bones

Lecture 1: 1001 Adding Bones

Lecture 2: 1002 Bone Setup And Influence

Lecture 3: 1003 Deformable Textures

Lecture 4: 1004 Bone Animations

Chapter 11: 11. Stop Motion

Lecture 1: 1101 Image Capture Settings

Lecture 2: 1102 Light Table

Lecture 3: 1103 Time-Lapse Using Auto Capture

Lecture 4: 1104 Keying Out Background Color

Lecture 5: 1105 Animating With Stop Motion

Chapter 12: 12. Building Scenes

Lecture 1: 1201 Using Z-Space

Lecture 2: 1202 Using Z-Space With Bitmaps

Lecture 3: 1203 Using The Camera

Lecture 4: 1204 Animating The Camera

Lecture 5: 1205 Camera On A Path

Chapter 13: 13. Lip Syncing

Lecture 1: 1301 Lip Sync Recording – Best Practices

Lecture 2: 1302 Setting Up Phonemes

Lecture 3: 1303 Automatic Lip Sync

Lecture 4: 1304 Editing Lip Sync

Chapter 14: 14. Adding Effects

Lecture 1: 1401 Filters

Lecture 2: 1402 Animating Filters

Lecture 3: 1403 Force Of Nature Effects

Lecture 4: 1404 Shadows And Highlights

Lecture 5: 1405 Adding Blur

Chapter 15: 15. Exporting Files

Lecture 1: 1501 Saving Your Movie

Lecture 2: 1502 Saving For Youtube Or Facebook

Lecture 3: 1503 Export PDF

Chapter 16: 16. Wrap-up

Lecture 1: 1601 Beyond The Basics

Lecture 2: 1602 Exploring Other Toon Boom Studio Software