From the course: Animating in Historical Styles
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1980s: Animating the scene
From the course: Animating in Historical Styles
1980s: Animating the scene
- [Instructor] I thought it would be a challenge to try to animate Saturday morning TV show characters in Adobe Animate CC or a Flash. The same challenge would be present in Toon Boom Harmony so let's see how well we can get on with a fairly decent looking puppet and I'm going to take you into the puppet and give you a guide through. So I took my original artwork took it into the program and then just lined the whole thing on different layers so we can pull the whole character apart and do all of our usual puppet stuff with that and of course the head is also a separate rig and the mouth also does its business here so it's got the A through F mouth shapes just on these layers here. Let's go back out and go back out to the main stage and then I'll run you through various variations that I created so I have my sound puppet here with the shadow so one without shadow one with and I'm not worried about that little hand…
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