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Digital Background Painting for Animation

Grouping Your Composition

A course by Susan Yung , Designer, Illustrator, and Background Painter for Animation

Designer, Illustrator, and Background Painter for Animation. Los Angeles, United States.
Joined January 2020

Learn the entire process of creating digital background scenes for 2D animations in Photoshop

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About the video: Grouping Your Composition

Overview

“At the start of this unit, we will be exploring the use of shapes to plan out the composition of your colors. We will be practicing some shape grouping to make it easier for the second lesson. ”

In this video lesson Susan Yung addresses the topic: Grouping Your Composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Background Painting for Animation. Learn the entire process of creating digital background scenes for 2D animations in Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“Grouping Your Compositions In this lesson, we'll go through how to set up your composition for your painting. I'm gonna also add a few exercises to help you on the way. Let me show you how to do that. Here, we'll be focusing on planning out your painting. We'll work on the thumbnailing part of this process. I like to recommend this to beginners to practice before starting your painting. I'll teach you to understand grouping shape elements together, and planning your colors. In this lesson, we're gonna focus on how to break down this design. Breaking down the thumbnailing process will make i...”

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Course summary for: Digital Background Painting for Animation

  • Level: Beginner
  • 98% positive reviews (236)
  • 6109 students
  • 4 units
  • 14 lessons (2h 20m)
  • 8 downloads
  • Category

    3D & Animation, Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Animation, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Susan Yung

A course by Susan Yung

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Designer, Illustrator, and Background Painter for Animation

Since a young girl growing up in Hong Kong, Susan was captivated by eastern and western animations. This sparked a profound curiosity that would send her to art college in Los Angeles, California with the intention to fulfill her dream: working in animation. Although a Design internship at a motion design studio wasn’t what Susan hoped was her first job, it was where she discovered the art of background painting.

Through tons of passion and dedication, Susan got her first job as a background painter at Nickelodeon and hasn’t looked back since. She has worked on animation series for Netflix, Green Portal Studios (Solar Opposites for Hulu), Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, and Cartoon Network.


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Digital Background Painting for Animation. Illustration, 3D, and Animation course by Susan Yung Best seller

Digital Background Painting for Animation

A course by Susan Yung
Designer, Illustrator, and Background Painter for Animation. Los Angeles, United States.
Joined January 2020
  • 98% positive reviews (236)
  • 6109 students