Course catalog

Animating 2D Characters: Harmony to Unity

Learn how to rig and animate characters in Toon Boon Harmony, and then export the characters for use in Unity's game engine.

Animating a Landscape with VUE

Create an animated digital landscape with photorealistic effects using VUE. Learn about modeling natural materials, lighting, keyframing, and rendering the animation.

Animating Cartoon Characters in Maya

Teaches simple steps to creating exaggerated cartoon animation in Maya, using principles such as squash and stretch, exaggeration, follow-through, and overlapping action.

Animating in 2D: Breakdowns and Thumbnails

Discover how to animate breakdowns and thumbnails to enhance the quality of your animation and add interest to your scenes.

Animating in 2D: Hair and Clothing

Discover a professional animator's tips for animating hair, fur, clothing, flags, and other secondary animation items.

Animating in 2D: Loosening Up

Build more natural, flexible character animation with these 2D animation tips.

Animating in 3ds Max: Constraints, Controllers, and Wire Parameters

Learn about some of the fundamental tools available in Autodesk 3ds Max for creating and controlling animations.

Animating in Photoshop

Learn how to create traditional hand-drawn animation in Adobe Photoshop.

Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

Learn to draw cartoon characters for classical cel animation, digital animation, comic books, or just for fun.

Animation Foundations: Fundamentals

Learn the basic physics and motion principles that lie behind your 2D or 3D world, and time-tested techniques for bringing your animations to life.

Animation Foundations: Gesture

Gestures make animated characters more interesting and believable. Join Pixar animator Andrew Gordon to learn how to create expressive gestures using simple animation principles.

Animation Foundations: Storyboarding

Get started in storyboard animation. Learn storyboarding techniques for illustrating action, angles, shot composition, character, and drama.

Animation Pipeline Production

Learn how to adopt a production pipeline to enhance the efficiency of your 3D animation projects.

Anthony Jones: Concept Artist

Join concept artist Anthony Jones as he shares his latest work, where he finds inspiration, and how he sees the big trends in 3D and VR developing over the next few years.

Applying the Foundations of Animation

Ready to use your animation skills in a real-world project? Learn how to apply Dermot O’ Connor’s 21 foundations of animation to create a classical animated scene.

Architectural Photography: A Fine Art Approach

Join photographer and educator Justin Reznick as he photographs some examples of Chicago's spectacular architecture, sharing creative and technical insights along the way.