Creating a 2D Animated scene with OpenToonz (FREE Software)

Recreating the Mickey Mouse whistling animation scene from Steamboat Willie

What you'll learn
You will learn a workflow to creating a complete scene in OpenToonz
You will see and understand every step that I take and every tool I use to create the scene
You will see me painting the background, midground and drawing the character, using different tools
You will learn how to create an infinite scrolling background
You will learn how to re-use your character drawings, so that you don't have to redraw the same pose many times

Requirements
No experience is needed in animation or OpenToonz. I will explain every step that I take.
OpenToonz is free to download. I'll show you where to download it from.

Description
This course shows how you can put together a complete shot for your animation using the FREE 2D animation software, OpenToonz. The shot I chose, was to recreate the whistling scene from the classic, Steamboat Willie.I'll show how you create the project and each of the scenes. I explain why I created multiple "scenes", and why YOU might want to create multiple OpenToonz scenes for the shot and how to combine them into your finished animation.I'll draw the background, showing how you can use the Raster brushes to create an old-style pencil effect. I show how to use multiple layers to build up your background image and make it infinitely scrollable.I'll add the soundtrack, so I can time the animation to match it.Then I show the process for sketching, then inking your character animation; reusing drawings for the looping section, which saves redrawing the same action. Animation takes a long time, so you should reuse drawings when you can and take other shortcuts to speed up the process. I show as much of this as I can in this course. To help with reuse and animation, I separated Mickey into different parts and show how you can do this with your own animations.Finally, as a bonus, I'll show how you can re-work the animation to create an engaging vertical style "short" video for sharing on your socials, using your work so far, by sliding different layers into view and re-sizing the camera to fit the new layout.

Who this course is for
This course is for complete beginners to OpenToonz or intermediate users that want to change from creating simple animations to complete scenes for building up into a full cartoon.
You don't need any artistic skill to get the most of this course.