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Animation Courses

Here's some places you can go and some I'm taking myself!

A lot from Coloso, I tend to just chip into my courses over the weekend.

3 Day Bootcamp type classes and you do get a google link to the recordings after if you want to review/continue on with the homework after.

Bloop is more a generalist and learning the barebone basics and great for foundation knowledge and will also lead you through the UI of a program. Also you can't beat 90 bucks for a whole structured class.

Places that SOMETIMES have Animation classes. You gotta check every semester and just grab them when they come up.

http://www.conceptdesignacad.com/

Gumroads

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Old paintovers!

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Blender Storyboard Tool

If you're interested in storyboarding in Blender this is an absolutely must get tool!

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Online Classes for Under 300 USD

Yuming Li's Digital Painting Course - https://yuming-li.mykajabi.com/

Really solid painting course, goes indepth into value and color relationships. A really good overall on what to strive for with painting. The class is about 290 so the most pricey out of all this but legimately a solid course I reccomend anyone.

I like Coloso a lot because I can leisurely just work on a class over the weekend with my busy schedule. Also it disables Discord while I'm in class so it kind of hyperfocuses me lol.

Used to be 60 bucks but have gone up to almost 100. I get it. This is a really good site if you need to speedrun learning the UI of a program. I learn all my programs like AE, Harmony, TV Paint through here and it's why I'm so multi-displinary.

Really good for listening and working too, a subscription isn't that much and they have an app you can queue up classes and listen to them. I use this for working out or general background noise!

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Slides from a guest lecture I did on backgrounds for storyboarding for a CDA class.

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Composition trick I was taught from a CGMA BG class with James Paick!

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Little trick to cooling down shadows or warming up shadows using a neutral grey. 

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Someone asked about atmospheric painting and how colors degenerate with them receding into perspective. 

Order is usually Yellows, Reds, Blues. Color wavelengths can only bounce back into your eye to a certain distance, photons begin to degenerate and not be able to give as much clarity in color wavelengths as distances begin to deepen. Usually yellow wavelengths in photons begin to degenerate first and not be as strong, then reds, blues and things just become greyish considering how bright it is outside. Light is where the photons are and color is, so if it’s overcast there are less photons and degeneration happens faster so less color saturation everywhere. But if it’s brighter outside theres more photons and stronger color wavelengths so things are more saturated in color. 

Hope this helps!

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So this was a paintover for someone animated short so I couldn’t change the car in the FG too hard because that’s where a character lands. But I did go ham on the bg. Lowered the horizon. Tried to keep the palette they were going for but made the bg more atmospheric and thick like a swamp fog also indicating it’s daytime more clearly.

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A paintover from the Gestalt Discord, You can break up rhythms and they will still read as a rhythm! Breaking it up adds more visual interest and a more natural look.