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Introduction to Cartooning

Justin DikeLessons: 19Length: 5.6 hours
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Introduction to Cartooning

Introduction

04:58
In this series, Justin Dike introduces you to cartooning. We’ll look at drawing heads, backgrounds and lots of other cartoonish elements. Now let’s get to it!

1.Introduction
1 lesson, 04:58

1.1
Introduction
04:58

2.Flash Drawing Basics
4 lessons, 1:13:09

2.1
Why I use Flash to Draw
09:38

2.2
The Flash Interface / Preferences
09:23

2.3
Vector and Symbol Basics with Flash
24:45

2.4
Adding Filters, Gradient and Shading
29:23

3.Heads
3 lessons, 1:17:29

3.1
Facial Expressions
24:01

3.2
Head Turns
18:53

3.3
Hair
34:35

4.Bodies
3 lessons, 50:41

4.1
Anatomically Correct Slim & Fat Bodies
17:17

4.2
Cartoonishly Correct Kid, Teen, Adult Bodies
11:19

4.3
Clothing Tips
22:05

5.Backgrounds
3 lessons, 54:45

5.1
Drawing Cartoon Backgrounds
23:35

5.2
Perspective
17:52

5.3
Parrallax Scrolling / Repeating Backgrounds
13:18

6.Cartooning Elements
4 lessons, 1:06:31

6.1
Comic Strip Elements
17:53

6.2
The Illusion of Movement
08:04

6.3
Explosions
19:36

6.4
Other FX
20:58

7.Conclusion
1 lesson, 06:14

7.1
Conclusion
06:14

Justin Dike
Justin Dike
Justin Dike is the founder of CartoonSmart.com, one of the internet's first video training websites. He is a long-time illustrator and animator, focusing mostly on Adobe Flash, and experienced programmer with Actionscript 3, Objective C and Cocos2d. For CartoonSmart he has recorded hundreds of hours of video tutorials and recently published his first full length book titled iOS Programming with Xcode and Cocos2d available in the iBookstore.
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