Aaron Blaise - Livestreams animating in TVPaint

 One of the best online resources on animating /drawing/painting is Aaron Blaise's Creature Art Teacher .com  and his YouTube Channel Art of Aaron Blaise.

Aaron is currently animating a short film , Snow Bear .  He has been doing a series of livestreams showing his process of animating in TVPaint. This is a great way to learn, by watching a master animator at work. (it's like you get to look over his shoulder to watch him animating).

See:

 Aaron Blaise's Making-of Snow Bear livestreams on YouTube

(click that link to see all the Making-Of Snow Bear livestreams)

 

More Aaron Blaise Animation using TVPaint

UPDATE , Feb. 28, 2021: definitely check out Aaron Blaise's YouTube Channel for the many additional animation tutorials he has posted in the past six years since I first made this post. You can learn a lot about animating and using the TVPaint interface just from watching his Livestreams of him animating scenes using TVPaint.

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Check out master animator Aaron Blaise's new set of Video Tutorials on the 12 Principles of Animation , using TVPaint.   (this is really good stuff , whether you're using TVPaint or not  ... it's not software specific , it's all about basic principles .  Highly recommended) .

Here's a free sample of one of Aaron's animation tutorials using TVPaint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0i36AlJciI

Also see Aaron's recent short film "Trunk Troubles"  with Cyrano the Elephant , animated in TVPaint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i9jJsPH-L0

Also, be sure to subscribe to Aaron's YouTube Channel .  He has other free animation tutorials posted there:

https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaiseArt/search?query=animation+tutorial+

Including this great overview of the basic functions for animating in TVPaint:

TVPaint Animation, a quick start guide 

Aaron Blaise animation using TVPaint

Aaron Blaise is a former Disney animator (and fantastic all-around artist) who is using TVPaint Animation .   Check out Aaron's art tutorials on his YouTube Channel :

https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaiseArt/videos

(Subscribe to his channel !)

Creature animation walk cycle in TVPaint :




Animation pose test for proposed feature film "Art Story" by Aaron Blaise. Animated in TVPaint:




Animation tutorial on using blinks effectively in character animation , by Aaron Blaise, animated in TVPaint:



There are many more animation and painting tutorials on Aaron's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaiseArt/videos

Aaron also has a fantastic series of videos on how to animate Quadruped movement .  It's currently on sale for $40  for 3 tutorials.  Highly recommended.

http://creatureartteacher.com/product-category/tutorials-lessons/animation-tutorials/

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