CGCookie - Fundamentals of Pixel Art Animation

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Animation is a complex and intricate path to understand and this course will break down just the foundations to get you started. This pixel animation course will go through setting up Photoshop for animation so that you understand how the software handles it. The animations you will go through are blinking, idle, walking, and jumping and then you'll learn how to save out your animations as .GIFs
This course continues where the first left off. We initially set up Photoshop to be animation ready and take you through setting up frames and framerate and how to save these animations out as .GIFs. After a quick demo of animating with a green dot, and blinking, we also take a look at a flag wave animation. We then take Blender Cookie's mascot, Baker and take him through a Blinking, Idle, Walking, and Jumping animation set.