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Create Your Animated Series Fast in Cartoon Animator 5

Animate More with Better Quality in Less Time

01 Getting Started with Cartoon Animator 5 (7:29)
02 Download Freepik Resources (2:52)
03 Download the Project Files (2:57)

Making Smooth and Convincing Animations in Cartoon Animator 5

04 What makes Smooth and Convincing Animations (3:31)
05 How CA5 Automates Foundational Principles of Animation (6:04)
06 New Animation Features (4:32)
07 Using Vectors for unlimited Zoom without loosing quality (no pixelation) (3:27)
08 How Springs create Follow Through and Overlapping Action Automatically (2:22)
09 How FFD makes it easier for Exaggeration and Squash and Stretch (4:00)

Producing Cool Animations Without Drawing

10 How anyone can animate without Drawing or Painting (5:42)
11 How to get ideas to Animate (4:10)
12 Getting Vector Images, Backgrounds and Characters to Animate(Free and Paid) (5:32)

QUEST 1 - SPRINGS - Water Dragon

13 Downloading Dragon and Water Background from Freepik (2:38)
14 Adjusting the Water Dragon Vector File (7:42)
15 Adjusting the Water Background Vector File (5:36)
16 Bringing Assets into Cartoon Animator (4:07)
17 Adding Bones to the Dragon (6:27)
18 Setting up the Springs for Automatic Follow Through Animation (4:48)
19 Animating the Dragon (13:02)
20 Adjusting the Timing and Keyframes (8:06)
21 Rendering to post on YouTube (3:44)
Water Dragon - Question by Jay (3:17)

QUEST 2 - FREE BONE RIG Robot in Mars

22 Get Elements from Freepik (2:06)
23 Prepare the Background in different planes (11:32)
24 Customize the Character (4:40)
25 Organizing Robot Parts into Layers (4:35)
26 How Rigging Works in Illustrator - Folder Naming and Hierarchy (10:45)
27 Bringing Robot into Illustrator Rigging Template (6:13)
28 Create Bones in Illustrator (6:22)
29 Renaming Bones (11:23)
30 Connecting the Bones inside Illustrator (19:32)
31 Import Assets into CA5 (8:56)
32 Set Up Springs for Robot (12:12)
33 Animate the Robot (8:43)
34 Refine Robot Animation (5:11)
35 Animate Camera and Render for YouTube (6:07)

QUEST 3 - FFD - Monster Dance

36 Download Freepik Monsters and Background (2:47)
37 Visualizing the Scene with Music (5:02)
38 Set up Scene in CA5 (6:53)
39 Animate 1 monster with FFD (8:13)
40 Pose to Pose Dance Animation (12:55)
41 Save Animation as Motion Clip for other Monsters (5:47)
42 Render Monster Animation (1:31)

QUEST 4 - VECTOR COLOR Customize a Character

43 Introduction to Color Adjustments with Vectors (3:05)
44 Using the SVG Group Editor (4:32)
45 Adjusting the Colors inside Cartoon Animator 5 (3:45)

Workflow for Animating a Single Scene

46 Thinking like an Animator Producer (5:50)
47 How to visualize a scene before starting (10:10)
48 Get Assets from FreePik that go well with your vision and style (7:15)
49 Adjust them with Vector Software (Illustrator or Affinity Designer) (12:18)
50 Prepare them for animation (3:56)
51 Get elements into Cartoon Animator 5 and Animate (1:28)

Workflow for a Full Animation of Multiple Scenes

52 Workflow for a Full Animation composed of Multiple Scenes (4:33)

Workflow for Animating an Animated Series of Multiple Episodes (Animations)

53 How you could Pitch your Animation Idea to Netflix (and get paid to write it) (11:50)
54 Create the Story Arc answering the basic Story Questions (10:31)
55 Overview of the Series - what is the series about (5:38)
56 Defining the World and it's rules (9:30)
57 Defining the Tone of the Series (6:11)
58 Defining the main Character Descriptions (2:29)
59 Creating Season Summaries (3:59)
60 Defining and Describing Potential Episodes (4:59)

5.1 Vector Pipeline, GIFs, APNGs, Sequences

Introduction New Updates CTA5.1 (1:14)
61 Setting up a Vector Editor for Cartoon Animator 5 (1:38)
62 Pipeline from Vector to Cartoon Animator 5 (5:19)
63 How to import GIFs (2:32)
64 Resources to get free GIFs to use in Cartoon Animator (2:48)
65 Adding FDD Motions to GIFS (2:15)
66 Importing APNGs to Cartoon Animator 5 (2:42)
67 How to Create APNGs from Scratch using Freepik (8:07)
68 Creating APNGs with APNG Assembler (3:32)
69 Creating APNGs with Photoshop as Sequence (5:08)
70 How to Create Sequences on Photoshop (5:30)
71 How to Create Sequences on Illustrator (2:08)

5.2 Motion Pilot and Paths

72 Motion Pilot RTS - Phoenix (6:44)
73 Introduction to CTA5.2 New Features (1:25)
74 Flock Puppet Motion - Floating Creatures (12:17)
75 Wave Motion - Fish (6:06)
76 Wave Motion - Car (3:43)
77 Blending Motion - Dog Walk (4:36)
78 Click Actions (6:09)
79 Path Animation - Map Navigation (8:00)

5.3 Puppet Stage, Multi-Camera, Sprite Sequences

80 Easily Control Anime Character Fight Moves (9:39)
81 Adding Prop Animation with Triggers (8:35)
82 Animate Girls- Party Dance (8:18)
83 Easily Set Up Multi-Camera scene (10:03)
84 Combining Facial Mocap with Triggers (6:26)
85 VTuber Setup v3 (8:35)
86 Smooth Sprite Sequence v2 (12:39)

What's Next?

What's Next (4:20)

Questions from Students

Tutorial for Iris - How to show the Eyewhite and Mask (10:22)
How to Troubleshoot - tutorial for Sunny (12:48)
How to troubleshoot missing Body Parts - Tutorial for Robert (6:51)
Fixing a Biped Character - Tutorial for Ricardo (27:36)

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