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Animation Through the Ages: Limited Animation

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  • 15 Lessons

Learn how to create a limited animation from start to finish. Prepare to be guided on all things 60s animation. At the same time, you’ll be guided through some of the animation workflow.

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Classic Cartoon Fans, Together!

If you're a fan of unique classics like the Alvin Show or Mr. Magoo, this course is for you! With Twinimation’s 13 lesson, 1 hour course, we’ll teach you how you can make your own vintage animated short film.

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Contents

Chapter 0: PowerPoint Introduction

Learn about the history of Limited animation. Note this video is an edited version from the full Animation Through the Ages PowerPoint, featuring only the Limited Animation section. There may be some abrupt cuts.
Powerpoint Introduction

Chapter 1: Character Design

Learn how to design characters in the style of limited animated productions. 
Character Design

Chapter 2: Dialogue

Here I show how to draw mouth shapes for dialogue and even do a test animation.
Animation Mouth Shapes Part 1
Animation Mouth Shapes Part 2

Chapter 3: Audio

In this video, I show how you can raise or lower the pitch of audio in Davinci Resolve.
Audio Editing

Chapter 4: Acting, Subtext, and Storyboarding

In this video we'll discuss how to plan out the acting potions of an animated shot. We'll test out a few ideas though the form of storyboards.
Acting in Animation

Chapter 5: Background and Props

Here we create a simple background with a prop for our scene using UPA films as reference.
Background and Props

Chapter 6: Animation

We animate out entire limited animation short.
Animation

Chapter 7: Clean Up

Clean Up

Chapter 8: Color

Color
Establishing Shot

Chapter 9: Final Editing

We finish off our limited animation by editing our video in post production.
Editing Part 1
Editing Part 2
Full film

Recommended Projects

Recommended Project ideas following course completion.

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Recommended Projects

Recommended materials

  • A computer/drawing tablet for digital work; paper (preferably animation paper) for traditional art.
  • A cintiq pen for digital work; pencils (preferably colored pencils) for traditional art.
  • A light table is recommended for traditional art, but is not necessary.
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