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Anonymous asked: What program do you use for your drawings?

Photoshop but with the aid of Kyle T Webster’s brush sets. Particularly the gouache and watercolours. Also behind the scenes there’s a ton of pencil sketches and thumbnails and chewing the ears off of nearby friends about anatomy.

TOONBOOM TUTORIALS for you - for frees

littledigits:

ok so , tumblr .. I need your help. Well ill post this other places too because I really want to make this accessible but

one of my goals for this year is to film toonboom harmony tutorials - I’ve worked with the program for years and have taught it for a year in a college as well. There are tutorials out there but as an animator that likes more of a traditional look I find theyre a bit limiting in what you can do with the damn thing. 

here are some examples of the stuff i’ve done on my own in harmony with rigs ive made myself

1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5  and heres my resume - I’ve worked in animation for awhile and I love sharing tips and tricks and help people get past the technical parts so they can start experimenting and having fun. 

THIS IS MY PROBLEM : where the HELL do I start…. 

Theres a lot to the program , and I could start at the very beginning and go through the different things and show how to do camera moves and..show what z’d depth is and how to use drawing mode and all of that. But then part of me goes - wait , well , I’m best at animation so maybe I should just skip that part and go to animation stuff. I’m not quite sure how long or short I should make them.

so this is where I need your help

What would - YOU - prefer ? 

It would help me AMAZINGLY if I could get some feedback on what people would like. Wether they prefer long tutorials of me animating whole scenes, or shorter ones based on easier questions to answer like ( how do you handle doing head turns ) or something. OR BOTH. I want to know where I can be of the most help since I dont want to add to a whole sea of tutorials that may already be out there :) I want to fill in the gaps ! .  Animation with rigs is mostly what I want to focus on though so ..if you ask me questions about composting and lighting I wont be able to provide that. But you can also suggest things about animation in general…thats always a possibility regardless if its toonboom or not ! 

I also would like to know if a monthly poll would be good - I want to do at least one tutorial a month ( although it will probably be more if they’re not long ) , if so everyone can vote on what idea they think is the most useful at the time. So my tutorials will always be driven by what most people would like to see. But thats just an idea !  ( if thats the case i would start a new toonboom specific tumblr as well ) 

If you could respond to this or send me a message with your thoughts It will help a lot. Its really something I want to do for 2016 and share my knowledge as much as I can :) ! 

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