Character Turnarounds: like a Pro! Photoshop Timeline

Brent and Max teach you about character design's most important job, TURNAROUNDS....one of the hardest things to do! We share awesome tips and tricks that only pros know.
A 2d character turn around is a fundamental of character design. Animation uses character turn arounds to complete traditional and puppeted animation. You can make a character turn around using photoshop and the photoshop timeline. In this video we explain how to use the photoshop timeline to rotate your 2d character.
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Awesome turnaround howto, will definitely link it to people for a clear explanation on posing to draw the other sides. Also real neat to see the rig I did in the video, I was surprised to see that!

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tiarawhy do you want the drawings we made? The turn of the girl? I could email it to you if you want.

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