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  • Animate your vector characters

    Animating characters is the ultimate way of bringing them to life. Peskimo talk you through importing, setting up and animating in.

  • Character animation

    This tutorial will teach you how to use to create and animate your own animatics and 2D characters. You can bring your sketches to life and add them to your website or short film.

  • Exporting animation for mobile devices

    In the fourth and final part of our series of tutorials on cross-media design, Haley Saner talks you through exporting an animation for display on mobile devices.

  • Animating a logo with After Effects

    In the third part of our series of tutorials on cross-media design, Haley Saner brings a static logo to life with a sparkling range of special effects. The series concludes next month with designing for mobile.

  • Abstract motion

    Adding post effects to animations in Cinema 4D, will leave you with advanced and customisable results in no time. Justin Maller shows you how to use the in-built integration features to make this task less daunting.

  • A fairytale portrait

    By paying attention to the details at each stage of your modelling, texture-building and rendering process, you can really bring your character-based illustrations to life.

  • Watch the birdy

    Flight is an extremely complex thing to design, but you can start by thinking about how birds move and how to most effectively rig your model to approximate this kind of motion.

  • Poetry in motion

    Motion capture can generate incredibly realistic animation; but only if you have access to cleaned data. We explore the process of cleaning raw optical mocap data for yourself, using only the tools in

  • Patterns in motion

    Find new and interesting ways to experiment with animated vector patterns in your motion graphics work.

  • Set up a stop-frame animation

    Switch off your computer, clear your desk, grab your stills camera and get ready to have some fun with an old-school stop-frame animation.
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