Twinimation Studios/Animation Through the Ages: Rubberhose

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Animation Through the Ages: Rubberhose

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  • 28 Lessons
  • Includes 1 additional product

Learn how to create a rubberhose style animation from start to finish. Prepare to be guided on all things 20s-30s animation. At the same time, you’ll be guided through some of the animation workflow.

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Do you love old timey, Flicher’s style animation? Do you love the video game Cuphead? Now you can learn how to imitate these styles to create your own rubberhose work of art! With Twinimation’s 22 lesson, 6 hour course, you will see the process of replicating this type of film through music, animation method, character design, and post production templates. 

Start with history! This course will begin with a history lesson to explain the notable elements of rubberhose animation, including character designs, environment, color usage, music incorporation and much more. We will also look at numerous film examples from this era to show how the learned elements have already been utilized. After that, we dive right into the film creation process. Join instructor Andria as she takes you through the process of re-designing existing characters with rubberhose qualities in mind, drawing backgrounds from reference, toned color editing, drawing storyboards, animating on ones, and adding vintage edits.

Animation Through the Age’s Rubberhose course will not only introduce you to this unique and playful style animation, but you’ll become an expert! Purchase today to travel back to the world of rubberhose!

Contents

Chapter 0: PowerPoint Introduction

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

Chapter 1: Character Design and Music

Learn how to redesign characters with rubberhose qualities in mind and find music which existed during the same era.
Character Design Part 1
Character Design Part 2
Music

Chapter 2: Background Design

How to draw a background from reference and edit separate tones on Photopea.
Background Design

Chapter 3: Storyboard and Animatic

How to create a storyboard and an animatic.
Thumbnails
Storyboards
Animatic

Chapter 4: Animation

The entire process of rough animation.
Animation Part 1
Animation Part 2
Animation Part 3
Animation Part 4
Animation Part 5
Animation Part 6
Animation Part 7
Character Animation Test 1- Rough
Character Animation Test 2- Rough

Chapter 5: Clean Up

Learn how to clean up rough animation.
Clean Up Part 1
Clean Up Part 2
Clean Up Part 3
Character Animation Test 3- Clean

Chapter 6: Color

Learn how to color using Krita's paint bucket tool.
Color Part 1
Color Part 2
Character Animation Test 4- Color

Chapter 7: Final Animation

Adding the background to Krita and assembling the final animation.
Adding Background
Rubberhose Assembly
Final Animation

Reference Materials

All drawing refences used in this course
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