Animating a 2D Character within Live Action Video in Photoshop and Premiere Pro
Pluralsight
Course Summary
This tutorial takes you through the process of creating traditional 2D animation in Photoshop to be applied over live-action video. Software required: Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
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Course Description
This tutorial takes you through the process of creating traditional 2D animation in Photoshop to be applied over live-action video. We'll discuss the planning of live-action shots with animation in mind, video editing continuity, and creating video reference for our animation. Moving on to animation, we'll then create the key poses using rough animation to complete our full movement, then create our final line images for the poses. Next, we'll be coloring our animation, applying shadows and reflections to marry our character to the environment, and editing our animation back into our live action edit. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a more thorough understanding of how to create traditional animations digitally that work successfully within a live-action video background. Software required: Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 2s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 2sAnimating a 2D Character within Live Action Video in Photoshop and Premiere Pro- 2h 16m
—Discussing 2D Animation in a Live Action Environment 3m 38s
—Editing Our Source Video 8m 42s
—The Importance of Video Reference 5m 16s
—Editing Video Reference 11m 5s
—Creating Our Animatic Key Poses 10m 32s
—Completing Our Animatic Key Poses 8m 0s
—Timing Rough Key Poses and Creating Actions 7m 15s
—Completing the Timing of Our Rough Key Poses 11m 22s
—Painting out an Element from Our Live Action Plate 9m 59s
—Replacing Animatic Key Poses with Rough Animation Keys 8m 17s
—Continuing the Rough Animation Key Poses 8m 0s
—Finalizing the Rough Animation Key Poses 13m 31s
—Creating Our Breakdown and in-between Drawings 8m 40s
—Creating the Final Line Drawings 7m 21s
—Coloring the Animation Frames 8m 16s
—Adding Shadows, Reflections, and Exporting Our Animation 6m 48s
