Learn how to easily create a hand drawn animation in Photoshop!

Have you ever wanted to spruce up your website or social with fun, personalized animated gifs? It’s actually pretty simple! In this class, you’ll learn the basics of traditional animation and how to use the video timeline tool in Photoshop to create fun hand drawn animations. This class will be a great first step for anyone who is familiar with photoshop and wants to start learning animation.

What you'll learn:

• Fundamentals of traditional 2D animation
• Setting up photoshop file 
• Basics of the video timeline tool
• Creating layer frames to animate characters and text
• Workflow and organization of frames
• Animating with a video layer
• Exporting your animation as a video or animated gif

What you'll make:

For this project, you will be creating a custom hand drawn gif made up of three parts:

• A primary animation, which can be as simple as a character waving or a bouncy doodle
• An animated hand drawn word or phrase
• And a fun transition effect

What you'll need:

• Adobe Photoshop (free trial of the software program at Adobe.com)
• Not required but would recommend a drawing tablet or iPad with Apple pencil.