Topic: effects

Create highlights, textures, shadows, patterns, signatures, and watermarks.

Tutorials about the secret side of making digital art.

This gritty animation style works well for a gangster jazz cat world set in the 1900’s.

Codecs! Alpha Channels! Bitrate! Things every animator should know, yet never get taught.

Animation tutorial on the complex style used in the Castlevania Netflix series.

This tutorial will save you a few hours of watching unabridged tutorials elsewhere.

Snakes breakdance in this terrible movie featuring a serpent who snorts sand and has a surfer dude voice. Details on how the trippy 2D/3D sequence in the middle of the film is animated.

How to animate in the rubber hose style of the 30’s like the game Cuphead.

A Toon Boom animation with its own saga, made by a very enterprising VFX animator!

Animating to sell toys and combining 2D effects with 3D animation for action-packed fight sequences.

Different ways to animate cast shadows and form shadows in 2D animations.

An introduction to animatronics (animations in real life) through Stranger Things and Kubo and the Two Strings.

Ten different developers from around the world explain how to draw art and animations for 2D, 3D, and Virtual Reality video games.

A high quality 2D animated music video that rotoscopes on top of 3D models.

Tarboy is still amazing by today’s Flash animation standards. It even makes use of the little-known 3D tools.