PRINCIPLES OF ANIMATION - 2D ANIMATION LESSONS
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LESSONS
NOTE: If you want to be able to work on these projects at home, unfortunately a legal version of Photoshop is not available for free but can be purchased for as little as $9.99/mo for only the months you need it here. Also, there is a program called GIMP that is available for free and is in many ways similar to Photoshop; you can download GIMP here.
ADOBE ANIMATE LESSONS
NOTE: If you want to be able to work on these projects at home, unfortunately a legal version of Animate is not available for free but can be purchased for as little as $19.99/mo for only the months you need it here. Also, there is a program called Pencil that is available for free and is in many ways similar to Animate; you can download Pencil here.
1 Start out by following this beginner level Animate tutorial. In it you will learn how to do a basic flipbook style animation by hand drawing frames and setting them up on the timeline:
2 When finished with the above tutorial, add to your animation the nesting techniques (animation within an animation) in the following tutorial:
INTERACTIVE ANIMATION
ActionScript 3.0 Tutorials
ADOBE Premier LESSONS
Editing and adding sound and music to your animations.
ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS LESSONS
NOTE: If you want to be able to work on these projects at home, unfortunately a legal version of AfterEffects is not available for free and doesn't have an open sourced alternative, but AfterEffects can be purchased for as little as $19.99/mo for only the months you need it here.