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Creating a 2D Animated scene with OpenToonz (FREE Software)
Recreating the Mickey Mouse whistling animation scene from Steamboat Willie
What you will learn and gain
You will learn a workflow to creating a complete scene in OpenToonz
- You will see and understand every step that I take and every tool I use to create the scene
- You will see me painting the background, midground and drawing the character, using different tools
- You will learn how to create an infinite scrolling background
- You will learn how to re-use your character drawings, so that you don't have to redraw the same pose many times
What our students are saying
This course shows how you can put together a complete shot for your animation using the FREE 2D animation software, OpenToonz. The shot I chose, was to recreate the whistling scene from the classic, Steamboat Willie.
I'll show how you create the project and each of the scenes. I explain why I created multiple "scenes", and why YOU might want to create multiple OpenToonz scenes for the shot and how to combine them into your finished animation.
I'll draw the background, showing how you can use the Raster brushes to create an old-style pencil effect. I show how to use multiple layers to build up your background image and make it infinitely scrollable.
I'll add the soundtrack, so I can time the animation to match it.
Then I show the process for sketching, then inking your character animation; reusing drawings for the looping section, which saves redrawing the same action. Animation takes a long time, so you should reuse drawings when you can and take other shortcuts to speed up the process. I show as much of this as I can in this course. To help with reuse and animation, I separated Mickey into different parts and show how you can do this with your own animations.
Finally, as a bonus, I'll show how you can re-work the animation to create an engaging vertical style "short" video for sharing on your socials, using your work so far, by sliding different layers into view and re-sizing the camera to fit the new layout.
Requirements
- No experience is needed in animation or OpenToonz. I will explain every step that I take.
- OpenToonz is free to download. I'll show you where to download it from.
Who this course is for:
This course is for complete beginners to OpenToonz or intermediate users that want to change from creating simple animations to complete scenes for building up into a full cartoon.
You don't need any artistic skill to get the most of this course.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Heroic Universal Concept All About?
Heroic Universal Concept International is an ICT firm and a vision-driven movement aimed at harnessing the ingenuity of young people with the use of motivational and ICT tools, thereby helping them achieve their ultimate goal.
We offer ICT services and champion talent development programmes for young people.
Is your training online or physical?
Our training is online. We have hundreds of downloadable tutorial videos on different ICT courses hosted in our website.
As soon as you pay and register, you will be given access to the tutorial videos. You can download them and commence training, offline.
While you're learning, I will be guiding you from here whenever you need my assistance.
Where is your location?
We're based in Kasoa, Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria but our training is online. So, you can access our courses from anywhere you are while we will be coaching you from here.
Do you have a physical class?
No, we don't.
Our training is 100% online.
What is your mode of teaching?
We teach with tutorial videos.
We have hundreds of downloadable tutorial videos on various ICT courses in our website.
You will have access to download them and learn with them as soon as you register for your desired course.
We made all the tutorials downloadable to help you save data and be free from challenges of poor internet connection.
Do you have online community where your students converge to exchange ideas?
We have Heroic Students WhatsApp group where our students converge and exchange ideas.
Information about Heroic Academy and other Heroic innovations are discussed in the group.
Do you mentor your students?
Sure, I do absolutely!
I'm always available Whenever my students need my attention.
I supervise their projects and tackle their challenges.
Can ICT courses be learnt online effectively?
Of course! The more convenient way to learn ICT skills these days is online.
There are some courses you may never have the opportunity of learning if you're waiting for opportunity to learn them physically.
Professionals are fast moving online. Very few of them will still have time to teach physically.
Programming is one of those skills you can easily learn online.
All you need is a good and experienced coach, and I'm here to help.
Is programming difficult?
It depends on who is coaching you and the time you dedicate to learning it.
If you're being coached by a very experienced and gifted coach, if you give it enough time, programming will be fun for you.
However, if you're struggling to learn by yourself or you're being coached by an inexperienced coach, you will find programming difficult.
Can I learn coding with my phone?
Yes, you can start learning with your phone if you don't have a laptop. Just buy a phone external keyboard, I will direct you on how to use it to start programming.
How do you mentor your students?
I mentor my students by; answering their questions and helping them solve some problems whenever they call my attention.
If my student need my attention, I usually ask them to send me a screenshot of the issue or a zip file of their work to enable me analyse their job and debug the error.
I usually make a new video to point out their errors if the situation is complex.
How can you convince me that you're genuine?
Chat me on Whatsapp via +2348037747461 and express your concern.
I will try my best to clear all your doubt.
I'm not used to online training, I'm afraid it won't work for me.
Online training is great when a gifted teacher is handling it. Look for a gifted teacher. You will be missing opportunity to acquire great skills if you ignore online training.
Some skills are not common. Online training make them accessible.
If you have tried online training before and it didn't work for you, try again, this time, concentrate on getting a good teacher.
I tried my best to simply my lectures. You can chat me to see my students testimonials. They're testifying that I made my courses very simple.
Don't you think that poor internet connection can disrupt online training?
I made all my tutorials downloadable to win against poor internet connection.
You can download all your tutorials when the internet connection is ok and learn offline without worrying about network fluctuations.
What if I insist on one-on-one training. What's your advice?
Online training would have made learning a lot easier for you but if you insist on physical training, you have to take the pain of looking for someone or centers where the skills are taught.
The centers might not be close to you, so be ready to spent heavily on transportation.
I wrote an article where I compared online and physical training. You can chat me on Whatsapp to request for it.
I'm interested, how do I get started?
Go ahead and order for the course. If you need assistance, chat me on Whatsapp via +2348037747461.
Will I get certificate after the training?
Of course. Our organization is registered. We give our students certificate on completion.
I'm interested in the courses but I don't have money
If you can't afford the expensive courses, there are some cheap courses you can start from.
Just pay for the ones you can afford and get started instead of waiting.
You will gradually raise money to pay for the rest.
Are all your tutorial videos downloadable?
All the tutorials the Admin of this platform, Uche Joe created by himself are downloadable but the tutorials created by other expert partners created might not be downloadable.
However, you will surely enjoy the learning process.
About the Instructor
I'm a massive animation enthusiast and always have been. I started, as many of us did, by animating in the corner of my school exercise books and in flipbooks. I dabbled with animation software over the years, but it was never quite useful enough, so I stopped animating. That was until OpenToonz was released. And I fell in love with its traditional approach.
I have been training newcomers to OpenToonz for over 3 years since it was first released as open-source, with thousands of happy trainees. And with over 20 years of software experience, both writing and teaching, I know how to present software in a relate-able way.
Allow me introduce you to this great software and let you begin your adventure into animation.
