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Learning Anime Studio

Learning Anime Studio

By : Chad Troftgruben
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Learning Anime Studio

Learning Anime Studio

4.2 (19)
By: Chad Troftgruben
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Overview of this book

Written in an easy to follow manner with practical exercises, this book takes you through every aspect of Anime Studio, guiding you to create your own original cartoon. Learning Anime Studio is for newcomers to Anime Studio or animation in general. Hobbyists and newcomers with ambitions of being an animator will get the most out of this book. However, intermediate and long time users will be able to use various chapters as a reference to some of Anime Studio’s tools and features. The book also serves as a guide for the new enhancements introduced in Anime Studio Pro 10.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Learning Anime Studio
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Learning Anime Studio
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
Acknowledgments
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Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Stepping into the World of Animation
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Stepping into the World of Animation
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Constructing your animation blueprint
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Differing techniques offer various experiences
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Introducing Anime Studio
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Installing Anime Studio
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Opening Anime Studio for the first time
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Editing Anime Studio preferences
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Setting up your first document
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Summary
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Drawing in Anime Studio
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Drawing in Anime Studio
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Mouse versus tablet drawing
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Understanding the basics of vector and raster graphics
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Exploring the Draw and Fill tools
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Summary
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Exploring Layers and Timelines
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Exploring Layers and Timelines
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Simplifying layers
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Controlling layers with different tools
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Creating and working with layers
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Mapping out animation
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Changing your view of the action
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Summary
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Enhancing Your Art with the Layer Settings Panel and Style Palette
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Enhancing Your Art with the Layer Settings Panel and Style Palette
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Exploring the Layer Settings panel
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Animating layer effects
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Other general options for layers
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Applying shadows and shades to the layer
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Designing with the Style palette
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Summary
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Bringing a Cartoon Character to Life
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Bringing a Cartoon Character to Life
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Thinking about design
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Understanding the basics of bone animation
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Labeling, coloring, and hiding bones
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Animating bones
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Creating dynamic bones
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Understanding basic Smart Bone actions
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Working with Smart Bone dials
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Creating your first character
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Rigging your character
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Polishing things up
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Summary
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Developing Your Cartoon's Scenery
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Developing Your Cartoon's Scenery
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Being consistent
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Discussing scene design
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Setting up shots effectively
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Drawing your scenery
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Creating scene depth
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Polishing up your scene
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Summary
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Creating a Library of Actions and Assets
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Creating a Library of Actions and Assets
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Setting up a content folder
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Saving assets to the library
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Searching for assets and adding them to the Favorites folder
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Importing assets from the library
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Editing your library assets
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Creating variations of your library assets
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Importing a project file's assets directly
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Bringing in third-party library files
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Importing other file types
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Using built-in library assets
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Creating reusable animations using the Actions panel
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Inserting references versus inserting copies
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Working with scripts
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Summary
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Animating Your Characters
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Animating Your Characters
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Following your blueprint
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Animating characters nonlinearly
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Finding a workflow
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Putting it all together
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Opening the scene file
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Bringing in your characters and props
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Experimenting with character animation
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Incorporating facial expressions
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Creating a conversation
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Summary
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Exporting, Editing, and Publishing
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Exporting, Editing, and Publishing
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Previewing your work
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Choosing your file format
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Exporting your scenes
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Exploring different video editors
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Breaking down the editing process
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Creating titles in a video editor
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Exporting your completed project
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Finding an audience
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Index
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Index

Creating scene depth

This section deals with how the camera will react to our assets when it tracks them across the screen. Right now, everything is on one plane, indicating that all assets will react to a camera movement in the same way. This is optional as some people like to keep everything on one plane (this is also the reason why we didn't create layer depth while we were creating the assets). To create this effect, we will need to go through each layer and decide just how far back we need to push them into our document.

Depth shifting your layers

Since Anime Studio 9.5, it's now easy to adjust the distance of objects from the camera without having to do a bunch of resizing after the fact, because if you push something away from the camera, the layer will appear smaller, which can be annoying if we have everything placed the way we want it. This new method, which streamlines the process, is called depth shifting, and can be performed using the following steps:

  1. First, take the Transform...

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