Adobe Fresco- Designing Characters and Sets for Animation

Adobe Fresco: Designing Characters and Sets for Animation, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 5, with 50 lectures, based on 1 reviews, and has 35 subscribers.

You will learn about How to use the tools and features of Fresco How to design a character with proper layer structure to be imported into Animate, After Effects, Character Animator or Moho How to set up a 2-point perspective grid to sketch, ink and color a background that can be imported into your animation How to export in a variety of formats, including images, .pds, videos for time-lapse capture and image sequences for your frame by frame animations This course is ideal for individuals who are Seasoned or beginner animators looking to design their assets in Adobe Fresco It is particularly useful for Seasoned or beginner animators looking to design their assets in Adobe Fresco.

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Summary

Title: Adobe Fresco: Designing Characters and Sets for Animation

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 5

Number of Lectures: 50

Number of Published Lectures: 50

Number of Curriculum Items: 50

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 50

Original Price: $99.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to use the tools and features of Fresco

How to design a character with proper layer structure to be imported into Animate, After Effects, Character Animator or Moho

How to set up a 2-point perspective grid to sketch, ink and color a background that can be imported into your animation

How to export in a variety of formats, including images, .pds, videos for time-lapse capture and image sequences for your frame by frame animations

Who Should Attend

Seasoned or beginner animators looking to design their assets in Adobe Fresco

Target Audiences

Seasoned or beginner animators looking to design their assets in Adobe Fresco

Adobe Fresco is a free design application available for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. It’s best used with a stylus and touch controls. And it’s a fantastic app for designing characters and backgrounds for your animated cartoons. With the ability to export .psds, you can take your assets to most animation software and rig without issue, just as long as you have proper layer structuring. And that’s one of the key points you will learn in this course. In addition, you will learn how to:

Use common Fresco shortcuts and gestures

Use Pixel, Live and Vector brushes

Import custom brushes

Select and Transform artwork with various tools

Sketch a character for animation

Ink a character with clean lines

Color, shade and texture the character

Add animatable groups like blinks, hand poses and mouth phonemes

Organize layer structure for easier animation workflow

Use grids to sketch out proper perspective

Ink, color and polish a background

Test Fresco assets in four different animation apps

Export time-lapse videos of your work

Animate frame by frame with a Motion Layer

By the time you’re done you will have an understanding of how you can design your assets in Fresco and bring them into your animation software of choice.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome to Fresco!

Lecture 2: Gaining Access to Fresco

Lecture 3: Configuring App Settings

Lecture 4: Overview of Common Gestures

Lecture 5: Using Primary and Secondary Shortcuts

Lecture 6: How to Access Course Files

Chapter 2: Getting Started with Documents and Brushes

Lecture 1: Creating, Organizing and Saving Fresco Documents

Lecture 2: Inviting Others to Work

Lecture 3: Exporting File Types

Lecture 4: Using and Adjusting Pixel Brushes

Lecture 5: Using Live Brushes

Lecture 6: Using Vector Brushes

Lecture 7: Organizing and Importing Brushes

Lecture 8: Smudging, Filling and Erasing Artwork

Chapter 3: Working with Layers

Lecture 1: Selecting and Transforming Artwork

Lecture 2: Copying, Cutting and Pasting

Lecture 3: Fresco's Layer Types

Lecture 4: Working with Blend Modes and Other Layer Features

Lecture 5: Masking with Layers

Chapter 4: Designing a Character for Animation

Lecture 1: Sketching a Character

Lecture 2: Refining the Sketch

Lecture 3: Inking a Character's Head

Lecture 4: Inking a Character's Body

Lecture 5: Sketching and Inking the Hands

Lecture 6: Applying Basic Coloring to a Character

Lecture 7: Duplicating Limbs

Chapter 5: Adding More Detail and Functionality to Your Character

Lecture 1: Adding More Clothing Details

Lecture 2: Drawing and Grouping Mouth Poses

Lecture 3: Creating a Blink Pose

Lecture 4: Shading the Character

Lecture 5: Highlighting the Character

Lecture 6: Adding Texture

Lecture 7: Organizing, Merging and Naming Layers

Lecture 8: Exporting Character for Animation

Lecture 9: Examining a Character with Head Turns

Chapter 6: Drawing a Background for an Animated Scene

Lecture 1: Using Grids to Sketch the Background

Lecture 2: Adding Basic Colors

Lecture 3: Coloring in More Details

Lecture 4: Inking a Background

Lecture 5: Applying Effects and Polish

Lecture 6: Organizing and Naming Layers

Lecture 7: Exporting Background for Animation

Chapter 7: Animating Your Fresco Artwork

Lecture 1: Testing Assets in Character Animator

Lecture 2: Testing Assets in Animate

Lecture 3: Testing Assets in After Effects

Lecture 4: Testing Assets in Moho Pro 14

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Organizing and Polishing Assets with Photoshop

Lecture 2: Using the Time Lapse Feature

Lecture 3: Animating Frame-by-Frame with Fresco Layers

Lecture 4: Final Thoughts

Instructors

Chad Troftgruben
Freelance animator and screencaster

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