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Dive into the exciting world of cartooning with this comprehensive guide! Learn how to break down your cartoons into basic shapes, exaggerate features, and create 3-D structures. Discover tips for using color effectively and animating your characters. With step-by-step instructions and helpful advice, you'll be able to create a variety of characters, from goofy and cute to mean and happy. Unleash your creativity and bring your cartoons to life!
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Introduction to Cartooning www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Average Way Cool Break down your cartoon into basic but interesting shapes. www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Average Way Cool Exaggerate your eyes! They tell the soul of your character. www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Average Way Cool Think about layering your shapes in front or behind other shapes. www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Average Way Cool Create interesting, unusual 3-D structures by laying basic shapes on top of each other. www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Average Way Cool Your cartoon will look more life-like if you use 2 colors to make 1 color. www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Average Way Cool This rather complex nose shape is just 3 ovals on top of each other. www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Average Way Cool This could be a guy or a gal depending on the hair you add. www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning If you want to animate your cartoon, you will need to redraw it in different positions. Try copying it to a new slide and then reposition, rotate and scale the shapes. www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Goofy www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Stupid www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Mean www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Cute www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning Happy www.build-it-yourself.com
Introduction to Cartooning • Measures of success: • The soul is in your eyes! • Exaggerate! • Think 3D (layers and gradated colors) • Break your solution into groups that can be interchanged. www.build-it-yourself.com
Wow … This is a lot of WORK!!! • Brace yourself there, rookie. If you want to be a hot shot game designer or animator, you better be prepared to put in some long hours. • Usually, good things don’t come easy. www.build-it-yourself.com
Beam me up Scotty. No intelligent life down here! www.build-it-yourself.com
Hard work, work! Do’in my job! www.build-it-yourself.com
Be cool … www.build-it-yourself.com
Make love, not war! www.build-it-yourself.com
Dance ‘til the sun comes up … www.build-it-yourself.com
Don’t worry, be happy! www.build-it-yourself.com
Let’s try it … Goal for paper airplane alien pilot. You want to see your pilot from both sides of the paper airplane. www.build-it-yourself.com
Draw circle or ellipse. www.build-it-yourself.com
Color and then layer a pupil circle. www.build-it-yourself.com
Layer a highlight circle and group. www.build-it-yourself.com
Copy and mirror and rotate. www.build-it-yourself.com
Add head using curved line tool. www.build-it-yourself.com
Bring to back and gradiate color. www.build-it-yourself.com
Use scribble tool to add hair. www.build-it-yourself.com
Use curved line tool to make mouth. www.build-it-yourself.com
Group and shrink. www.build-it-yourself.com
Add trapazoid, bring to back and experiment. www.build-it-yourself.com