Animated Characters: Create Your First Loop in Adobe Photoshop Skillshare Staff Pick

Learn how to animate your own character dancing in Adobe Photoshop. 

After graduating in 2020 with a degree in animation and working as an animator and illustrator for nearly 6 years, I've learned how valuable a skill like animation can be. It's engaging and can communicate messages in a unique way.  It has the potential to cross the boundaries of age and language.  Animation is for everyone.

If you're an artist looking to add motion to your work, this class is for you.   

We'll go through the fundamental steps to create a frame by frame animated loop. By the time you finish this class, you’ll have a fully colored animation that you can use to share with your friends, on social media, and your website. 

This class is geared towards artists who have experience with Adobe Photoshop and are interested in adding movement to their work. Even if you have little to no animation experience, this class is a great way to kick off your animation skills. From animation principles to exporting your final animation, we'll go through the entire process together.   

I’ll share tips on: 

• Seeing animation principles in your everyday life 
• Recording a reference video
• Creating a unique character 
• Sketching keyframes
• Giving your work color and texture 
• Exporting your animation

This course is aimed for artists who may have digital art experience but haven’t experimented with animation yet or anyone who would like to try making a character move and groove.  In this class, you'll gain a strong foundational knowledge-base of principles of animation and how to incorporate them into your body of work. What you learn here can be applied to many different art and animation styles and can add a relevant and valued skill to your work.   

If you’re already dancing with excitement about learning animation, join me in animating a dance loop!