Adobe Fresco Designing Characters and Sets for Animation by Chad Troftgruben

Adobe Fresco is a free design application available for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. It’s best used with a stylus and touch controls and is a fantastic app for designing characters and backgrounds for your animated cartoons. With the ability to export .psd files, you can take your assets to most animation software and rig them without issue, as long as you have proper layer structuring. This is one of the key points you will learn in this course.

Additionally, you will learn how to:

• Use common Fresco shortcuts and gestures
• Utilize Pixel, Live, and Vector brushes
• Import custom brushes
• Select and transform artwork with various tools
• Sketch a character for animation
• Ink a character with clean lines
• Color, shade, and texture the character
• Add animatable groups like blinks, hand poses, and mouth phonemes
• Organize layer structure for an easier animation workflow
• Use grids to sketch out proper perspective
• Ink, color, and polish a background
• Test Fresco assets in four different animation apps
• Export time-lapse videos of your work
• Animate frame by frame with a Motion Layer

By the time you’re done, you will have an understanding of how to design your assets in Fresco and bring them into your animation software of choice.