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