Dynamic Animation with 2D and 3D Illustration

Digital illustration allows you to express your inner artistic world. Combining illustration with animation, allows you to bring that world to life! Willie and Jill from Advntr Studio are here to teach you how to do just that by creating engaging animations.

Uncover the secrets behind animation and learn how to use editing software to tell your own unique story. Get a complete step-by-step walkthrough from creating your illustration on paper to digitizing and animating it in software like After Effects, Cinema 4D and Octane Render.

Meet Willie and Jill Russell, founders of Advntr Studio. Hear about their creative journey and how the couple combined their talents to form their studio. They share their inspirations and the artists who influence their work.

Get inspired by exploring references of your favorite artists, studios, and websites. Think of the story you want to tell by coming up with a concept and writing a visual script. Then, take your visual script to the storyboard and start creating your scenes frame by frame in Photoshop. Willie and Jill provide a template to facilitate the process.

Dive into the production phase and start designing the protagonist of your animation. Willie and Jill guide you step-by-step from the initial sketches of your character to the finalized illustration in Photoshop. Bring your storyboard and character together to complete your frame. Next, explore the different elements of your design and decide which pieces should be 2D or 3D.

Explore Cinema 4D’s powerful digital tools by learning different techniques such as box-modeling and poly-modeling. Willie and Jill give you a walkthrough of some software essentials before demonstrating how to model a 2D design into a 3D one. Then, learn how to model the most important element of your character: the face.