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Backgrounds and Assets for Animation in Photoshop

Learn to use Photoshop to produce the images and backgrounds for your animations with no drawing skills
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (167 ratings)
6,019 students
Created by 2D Animation 101 Courses
Last updated 9/2018
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What you'll learn

  • Create backgrounds in Photoshop with no Drawing Skills
  • Transform Images into a Drawing ready to be use as asset in your animation
  • Add texture
  • Trace image to create a background

Requirements

  • You should be able to use a PC at a beginner level
  • You should be familiar with downloading software from the internet

Description

In this course you will learn how to use Photoshop to create backgrounds for your animations.

At the end of this course you will know all the techniques to be able to create backgrounds and visual assets to produce your animations, with a complete tutorial that puts together everything you learn in this course.

This course is aimed to beginners, so I will be explaining with as much detail as possible.

And if you already know how to use Photoshop, you can just jump to the Background Tutorial to just use everything you know to start creating what you need for your animations.

Inside you will learn:

  • How to use the different drawing shapes.
  • How to modify your drawing.
  • How to work with layers.
  • How to use the masking tools to create the effect of putting one drawing inside a shape.
  • How to add texture
  • How to import reference images to trace backgrounds
  • And how to create a 3D Effect that helps you create interesting perspectives, using point distortion.

And then, after you know all the tools and techniques, we will put everything together to create a background.

So, if you want to learn how to create backgrounds using photoshop, enroll now.

Who this course is for:

  • Animators who want to learn how to create backgrounds in Photoshop for their animations
  • Beginners who want to learn how to use Photoshop

Course content

4 sections • 19 lectures • 2h 26m total length

  • Preview01:37
  • Download the Project Files
    00:02
  • Preview08:27
  • Creating a New Document in Photoshop
    06:28
  • Selection Tool
    07:30
  • Zooming and Navigation
    04:44
  • Managing Layers
    07:28
  • Merging, Grouping and Linking Layers
    08:40

  • Drawing Shapes to Design Images Using Your Mouse
    08:40
  • Designing a Futuristic Gun Using Shapes
    14:42
  • Modify Your Drawing
    09:23
  • The Brush Tool
    09:32

  • Masking Tools: How to Draw Inside a Region and Extract parts of a Layer
    07:28
  • How to “Put a Layer Inside Another Layer” Using Masks
    10:42
  • Adding Texture
    06:15

  • Importing Image to Trace Background
    07:21
  • 3D Effect: Perspective Layers Using Point Distortion
    06:41
  • Tracing a Background Tutorial
    18:39
  • BONUS LESSON: What’s Next?
    02:18

Instructor

2D Animation 101 Courses
Animation Courses for Beginners
2D Animation 101 Courses
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 8,307 Reviews
  • 133,132 Students
  • 26 Courses

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, we are a group of animators who love to share everything we know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production.

Our aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Our courses will help beginners along with intermediate users.

We have helped more than 54,000+ students to discover techniques and all the knowledge they need to start animating their projects.

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