Jesse J. Jones' Animation Course - Animation for Everyone!

Animate with Krita, a free program, using a 1920 by 1080 canvas and onion skin. Master frame-by-frame timelines, straight-ahead and pose-to-pose workflows, and export as GIF or MP4 with ffmpeg.

Learn to animate a blink and build basic character animation in Krita using layers, onion skin, and frame-by-frame tweaks, then export the blink and prepare for a 360-degree head turn.

Create a 360-degree head turn by drawing front, profile, three quarters, and back views, then copy, flip horizontally, and refine timing with onion skin in Krita.

Learn to animate a head turn with arc motion, keyframes, and in-betweens, using guidelines, onion skin, and hold frames to create believable expressions.

Learn to craft expressive animation by building anticipation, overshoot, and settle poses between keyframes. Use easing to shape timing and spacing, including ease in, ease out, and in-betweens.

Master lip sync by using a mouth chart to map dialogue to frame-by-frame mouth shapes, refine with onion skin, and export the animated lip sync as mp4 with audio.

Master thumbnailing for character animation by quickly sketching rough poses to match audio, using line of action, anticipation, eye direction, and simple duplicates for efficient, expressive dialogue scenes.

Clean up keyframes from frame one to the final pose using onion skin, a reference layer, and a model sheet to keep the head, line of action, and proportions consistent.

Learn to craft smooth animation through keyframes, breakdowns, and in-betweening, using spacing charts, slow ins and outs, and easing to control timing; includes lip sync and exporting rough animation.

Learn to clean up and color an animation in Krita, import a background, set up clipping masks, and align keyframes with onion skinning for on-model clean linework.

Organize the animation into cleanup and color layers in Krita, then paint the character with the paint bucket, using grow selection and hue-saturation to fine-tune colors and avoid halos.

Shade animation using cel shading and blur effects, with clip-to-alpha layers and frame-by-frame shading on a shade group to achieve clean, controlled results.