What you'll learn

Create fun colourful animations
Get an overview of the user interface and learn the basics of opentoonz
Use features and tools like tweening to speed up your workflow
Learn to import assets and how to export to video
Include special effects using the Fx schematic
Learning techniques like character rigging and cut-out animation

Course content

5 sections • 31 lectures • 3h 1m total length

Introduction3:51
Welcome to the course! Enjoy.
Introduction to the user interface and getting started drawing10:22
In this video we cover the basics. We will get an overview of the user interface and we will also get started drawing shapes and curves.
Excercise: The frog and the fly7:13
This is the solution to the first exercise. It includes step-by-step instructions on how to draw the frog and the fly.
Exercise: Cards3:05
This is the solution to the second exercise. It includes step-by-step instructions on how to draw the 4 suits.

Introduction0:38
Welcome to the second chapter! In this chapter we start animating.
Explanation4:43
In this video we explain how to create simple animations.
Exporting6:20
Unfortunately exporting can be slightly tricky in opentoonz. But this video gives us step-by-step instructions on how to get it done!
Exercise: Frog eats fly6:56
In this video the frog finally gets it's well-deserved snack! Congratulations Froggy, your patience has finally paid off.
Exercise: Arrow pierces heart6:48
Another walk through in which we animate an arrow piercing a heart.

Introduction0:43
In this section we will learn about:
Tweening with the animation tool.
Nested animations
Creating shape tweens
Exporting
Animation tool explained3:48
The animation tool is very useful. In brief: set the size, location, rotation etc of the initial frame as well as of the final frame and opentoonz will do all the work and calculated each frame in between.
Nested animation3:14
It's often useful to loop animations within a larger animation. Just think of a wheel rotating, or wings flapping. This video shows us how.
Shape tween (morphing)2:04
Using the animation tool has it's limitations. For example the object we are animating does not change shape. But we can use level strips to achieve this.
Exercise: a single bounce3:24
This exercise helps us get practical experience using the animation tool.
Exercise: repeating the bounce1:57
Once we've animated a single bounce we can repeat the very same bounce as many times as we want without having to recreate the tween over and over again.
Exercise: shapes growing and morhping2:10
In this exercise we practice morphing a blob.
Exercise: a rockets blows up the moon9:25
This exercise is further useful practice.

Introduction0:59
Welcome to the next chapter. In this section we will create a light sabre battle. The project will help us learn some new nifty tools and features, like the function editor, special effects and adding a sound track.
Importing5:33
We start by importing all the resources.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)
Animating8:49
In this video we do the first rough animation of the light sabre.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)
Fine tuning5:43
For the perfectionists among us, let's fine tune it a bit more.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)
Adding a glow with the Fx Schematic4:04
In this video we learn to use the Fx Schematic to add an extra glow to the light sabre.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)
Photo editing in Gimp10:48
In order to cut off my arm we'll need a bit of photo-editing. No worries, we'll just use Gimp! It's is also free and open source.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)
Animating the falling arm9:37
We can use function curves to easily animate the arm as it falls to the ground.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)
Adding a transparency mask with the Fx Schematic10:12
Now comes a little sleight of hand as we 'delete' my arm from the original footage.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)
Adding and editing the soundtrack7:16
Of course no light sabre battle is complete without the obligatory 'woosh' sounds.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)

Introduction1:58
Glad to see you made it this far! In the final sections we will create an animation in the style of South Park. We will learn about:
the stage schematic
the skeleton tool
the plastic tool
how to lipsync using papagayo
Stage schematic7:48
The stage schematic is useful when it comes to grouping layers together in a hierarchical way.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)
Skeleton tool7:20
The skeleton tool is used in combination with the stage schematic and can be used to rig characters.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)
Plastic tool10:38
The plastic tool can be used to create animations of objects that are flexible and elastic.
(If you are following along with the same resources you can download them in the introduction lesson of this section)
Lip syncing13:54

Requirements

Make sure you download and install opentoonz before getting started (it's free and open source)
This course is approriate for complete beginners: no need for any prior skills or knowledge

Description

Hello all, this is the free version of my Opentoonz course. Opentoonz is a high quality and feature-rich animation suit that has been free and open source since 2016 and has been used by studios such as Studio Ghibli and Rough Draft Studios.

In this course we will cover the following topics:

Get started using the basic drawing tools
Create frame-by-frame animations
Importing assets and exporting
Learn about advance animation tools like:
- Motion and shape tweening
- Special effects
- Adding sound effects
- Rigging a character
- Using the plastic tool for animating flexible objects
- Lipsyncing

The only down side to Opentoonz is that the learning curve can be quite steep. But don't worry! In this course we will go over everything you need to know to get started.

This course contains both 'explainer' videos which provide a lot of information as well as practical exercises designed to help the learner consolidate and remember the information and turn the passive knowledge into a valuable skill.

This course is perfect for people who are interested in taking the first steps in animation and don't want to spend much on high monthly license fees.

Who this course is for:

This course is for people who are interested in create fun and colourful animations.
This course is about using the software opentoonz. It is not a course on learning the art of animation.

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Course content

Drawing4 lectures • 25min

Basic Animation5 lectures • 25min

Further animation tools8 lectures • 27min

Project: light sabre battle9 lectures • 1hr 3min

Project: cut out animation5 lectures • 42min

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