Courses

Animation

    Animator Certification

https://huggingface.co/spaces/tencent/Hunyuan3D-2.1

Text to Animation
https://www.animon.ai/

2D Animation
3D Animation Use generated images as sprite sheets, for animation.

Animation - Moana, Brave, Tangled, Toy Story, Shrek, Monsters Inc
https://longstories.ai/studio

Develop a COPY LONGSTORIES.AI - APP
  1. Consistent Characters
  2. Animating Backgrounds
  3. Audio Tracks
  4. Face Swap
  5. Background Swap
  6. Character Swap
  7. Camera Motion
  8. Image to Animation
  9. Video to Animation
  10. Lofi Animation
  11. Lofi animation that uses a 3D cymatic pattern or moving mandala, or a series of visual puzzles, that trains the non-dominant hemisphere [right-brain (for right handed people)]. Same with the music, hypnotic NLP de-programing, re-programming lyrics, pulses

https://github.com/3b1b/manim
Open source Python library for animation

https://github.com/3b1b/3Blue1Brown.com
https://github.com/3b1b

control blender - llm voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InHuoGkOb2s Manim Animation, using Python Libraries
voice llm control

Blender

Most likely the best free animation software out there, Blender is a powerful open-source tool capable of delivering impressive results to users familiar with it. When it comes to animation, Blender makes use of tools like shape animations, vertex weighting, armature, and inverse kinematics, along with so many others to allow intricate, detail-oriented animation.

Advanced rigging tools include envelope, skeleton, and automatic skinning. There’s also easy weight painting, mirror functionality, and bone layers for organization. The built-in brush selection includes Crease, Clay Strips, Pinch, Smooth, Mask, Grab to help make animations ultra life-like. Advanced animators can also customize brushes to match their unique design requirements. Shape keys enable you to tweak facial expressions, model muscle parts and refine skeletal rigs. You can sculpt, model, render, and more. You can even use the Grease Pencil feature to work on 2D creations and the helpful Python API for scripting and customisation through app extensions.

Hotel Transylvania 3


Follow along with Sony Pictures Animation Hotel Transylvania 3 director Genndy Tartakovsky to draw your own Dracula.

Animation Program Curriculum

Storytelling
  • Scriptwriting for Animation: Writing scripts for animated content.
  • Character Development: Techniques for creating and developing characters.
  • Visual Storytelling: Conveying stories through visual elements.
  • Storyboard Creation: Planning and visualizing scenes and sequences.
Character Design
  • Character Design: appealing characters.
  • Character Development: backstories and personalities.
  • Costume and Props
  • Character Expressions: Techniques for animating facial expressions and emotions.
Animation Software
  • Introduction to Animation Software: Overview of industry-standard tools.
  • Adobe Animate: Using Adobe Animate for 2D animation.
  • Autodesk Maya: Basics of 3D animation in Maya.
  • Blender: Using Blender for 3D modeling and animation.
  • Toon Boom Harmony: Professional 2D animation with Toon Boom.
2D Animation
  • Drawing for Animation: Basics of drawing for motion and storytelling.
  • Traditional Animation: Techniques for hand-drawn animation.
  • Digital 2D Animation: Using software to create 2D animations.
  • Character Rigging: Techniques for preparing 2D characters for animation.
  • 2D Effects Animation: Creating special effects like smoke, fire, and water.
3D Animation
  • 3D Modeling: Creating 3D models of characters and environments.
  • Texturing and Shading: Techniques for applying textures and colors to models.
  • 3D Rigging: Preparing 3D models for animation.
  • 3D Animation: Bringing 3D models to life with motion.
  • Lighting and Rendering: Techniques for realistic lighting and rendering.
Rigging
  • Introduction to Rigging: Basics of creating skeletons for animation.
  • 2D Character Rigging: Techniques for rigging 2D characters.
  • 3D Character Rigging: Rigging 3D characters for animation.
  • Facial Rigging: Creating rigs for facial animation.
  • Advanced Rigging Techniques: Complex rigs for dynamic animation.
Motion Graphics
  • Introduction to Motion Graphics: Basics of motion design and key techniques.
  • Typography in Motion: Creating animated text and titles.
  • Visual Effects: Integrating VFX into motion graphics.
  • Compositing: Combining multiple elements into a cohesive scene.
  • Motion Graphics for Web: Creating animations for online use.

Animation Tutorials

The Wheels on The Bus - song animation, puppets. 100 million

Adobe Creative Suite
Toon Boom Harmony
Synfig Studio
Houdini
Runway ML
https://www.kapwing.com/ai/dubbing/lip-sync lip synch, like hedra
loopy lipsynch. from bytedance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrC1fP1oHcg CapCut - rainforest blue avatar educating

The Zinnny Studio - digital products, animation, kids Books

AI Advances

Atomic Gains

AI Animation

*** Project Muse

Cloud AI

ai samson

MDMZ - animation

https://www.youtube.com/@AIBunnyOfficial/videos

Advanced Animation

Adobe Animate

character swap - Unreal Engine

Blender, Maya

Being Animator - Blender, ChatGPT

Blender: A free and open-source 3D animation software with a comprehensive set of modeling tools.

Maya: A professional-grade 3D animation software.

3ds Max: 3D modeling, animation, and rendering, catering to various industries including gaming and architecture.

Houdini: 3D animation software known for its use in major animation productions like "Zootopia," "Frozen," and "Rio."

Animation Tools

LivePortrait, alternative to Hedra

https://huggingface.co/spaces/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait

Hedra - facial animation, lip synching

Video to Animation - expensive as yet.

https://domoai.app/ - Video to Animation

Blender

Adobe Creative Suite

https://civitai.com/models/118086/3d-animation-diffusion

Runway ML

Adobe Character Animator

https://app.animaker.com/editproject/xVgFZVRPKu2H8YSz

https://stock.adobe.com/sg/search?k=cartoon%20background
Animated Overlays
video on a animated background that loops
Copyright-free stock footage or animation
Free Animated, Magical Effects
Free Animated Backgrounds
Can create animation on backgrounds
Education - Learn Engineering Animations, medical animations
animated greeting cards
vector-based image morphing used in animation

Examples

50 most-viewed independent animated shorts, YouTube

Dog-training School - 500 Million views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJdJIwCF_Y - guacamole, dice animation - 450 milion views

Rainforest Educational Documentary

Rainforest Animation

1. ChatGPT, https://claude.ai/, script prompt: Please write me a monologue for a cartoon character that is exploring the rainforest. Make it educational and include a part about a waterfall and a stream.

2. ClipChamp - Google login, generate text to voice

Create a new video
Record and Create
Text to Speech, 10 mins max, can use in pieces
Other languages, see if has API, or automate can bdo in bulk, with same animation.
download as mp4, lowest setting

3. Adobe Character Animator - Adobe Express, Google login

character tab at right, choose one
background tab, Choose Green Background
browse, under character main display
choose mp4 audio file we made in ClipChamp
record
download

4. Vecteezy - animated backgrounds, stock footage, images, login with Google

main search, drop down to 'videos'
search for 'rainforest animated'
license type on left menu - choose free license

Pre-recorded animation snippets or backgrounds

Use animation snippets within larger animation - Avatars move and express emotions via pre-recorded animations, or routines that can be multi-purposed. for example, a crying girl, a walking dog, a girl turning around, reaching her arms up, pointing, kicking.

Moving backgrounds, where appropriate, add to the animation. Use care not to overwhelm the main actor. Can animate static backgrounds for more control.

AI Voice overs, using text in English to create voice in other languages for free.

https://speechelo.com/

https://openai.com/api/
ChatGPT


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCMcyYAtRzw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABwQ5_LuYU&list=PLqNnERHGj6jAwoycLlCEz4wAGDg-eXBBl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9pzmzXj03A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYW3De9Rq1s

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consider:


KdenLive - https://kdenlive.org/en/download/
https://www.avid.com/media-composer/learn-and-support#Tutorials

DaVinci Resolve - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbqmZjJEsBw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UguJiz9AYM8

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OpenShot - animated effects
HitFilm Express


Chroma Key

iMovie
Calvary

DaVinci Fusion

Adobe After Effects

PowerDirector Essential

Adobe Premiere Elements
VSDC
Lightworks
VideoPad
Olive
Blender
Avidemux


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Free Images, GIFs, Backgrounds, Animations, Effects

https://www.freepik.com/

https://pixabay.com/

https://www.vector4free.com/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/697635798546967610/

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https://www.vecteezy.com/free-videos/animals

https://www.freeimages.com/search/cartoon-background

https://stock.adobe.com/sg/search?k=cartoon%20background

https://unsplash.com/wallpapers/art/cartoon


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Animations

Free Animations
Free Animated Effects
Free Animated Backgrounds

Turn Videos into animation

source TikTok viral videos from China, and repurpose them as animations, with different backgrounds, different audio.

Changing videos into animations by overlays, face swaps.

extract subjects from a video

--> turn animations into new animation using style guides

Character Design

  • appealing characters.
  • Character Anatomy: Understanding human and creature anatomy.
  • Character Development: Creating backstories and personalities.
  • Costume and Props: Designing costumes and props for characters.
  • Character Expressions: Techniques for animating facial expressions and emotions.

AI-assisted Animation

Cascadeur is a standalone 3D animation software that combines traditional keyframe animation with advanced physics and AI assistance, enabling animators to create realistic and expressive character movements efficiently.

Keyframes are critical points in the movement, such as the beginning, peak, or end of a particular action (e.g., the extreme points of a jump, like takeoff, midair, and landing). Tweening interpolates the motion between Key Poses

Physics-based animation.

Lofi Girl

    Lofi Girl
Looping Animation, hand drawing or tools, soundtrack (Licensing) comment section peaceful relaxing soothing 105 million views

kk - Lofi Girl

uu - 100 million views - Lofi Girl Midnite Study Session

Multi-hour animated videos, with long looping time, and different loops with random events, original mellow music, which itself loops. Passive game. Sexy manga and anime.



Lofi is about the music tracks, not the animation, which are just to look good. Simple animation-like effects or overlays, or backgrounds that appear to move left to right, panning, or zoom in or out. animations on a loop, with automated, random decision trees. Image effects