Adobe Fresco: Designing Characters and Sets for Animation

Adobe Fresco is a free design application available for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. It’s best used with a stylus and touch controls. And it’s a fantastic app for designing characters and backgrounds for your animated cartoons. With the ability to export .psds, you can take your assets to most animation software and rig without issue, just as long as you have proper layer structuring. And that’s one of the key points you will learn in this course. In addition, you will learn how to:

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  • Use common Fresco shortcuts and gestures

  • Use Pixel, Live and Vector brushes

  • Import custom brushes

  • Select and Transform artwork with various tools

  • Sketch a character for animation

  • Ink a character with clean lines

  • Color, shade and texture the character

  • Add animatable groups like blinks, hand poses and mouth phonemes

  • Organize layer structure for easier animation workflow

  • Use grids to sketch out proper perspective

  • Ink, color and polish a background

  • Test Fresco assets in four different animation apps

  • Export time-lapse videos of your work

  • Animate frame by frame with a Motion Layer

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By the time you’re done you will have an understanding of how you can design your assets in Fresco and bring them into your animation software of choice.

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