Quentin Cordonnier

Volumes and shapes studies from live footage.

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HOW TO ANIMATE 2D FIRE :

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This course is about how to animate fire frame by frame.

How to design fire ? how to animate it?

Fire is one of the most commun 2D effect any animation studio will ask you to create on their show. Weither you are being asked to animate a cosy chimney fire or an evil magic fireball, we are going to learn a simple way of animating fire, that will help you for any kinds of shots involving fire.

We are going to learn the very basics of physics, and how to apply these rules to stylised handrawned animation.

We want it to be simple and efficient but not cheap! We will just talk about what we need to know. Nothing more, nothing less.

NOTHING BEATS PRACTISE ! So if your first animations are not awesome, it is normal. Animation is just like music or sport: you have to practise to get better. You have to practise untill the knowledge becomes intuition.

This course is composed of videos of animation process, we will animate together :

-Fire particles and embers

-Fire rising

-Windy Fire

-Fire bouncing ball

-Fireball moving twirling

-A flame thrower shooting

We will review some animations together, trying to understand "why is that animation not working great, and why is this one awesome ?"

You will have access to some PNG sequences of my animations with notes.

We will review the main mistakes to avoid, talk about some basics rules of 2D animation (spacing, timing, exposure,...)

Required equipement:

1-A tablet,

2-A 2D frame by frame animation software (toon boom harmony is the best for this course, but adobe animate, TVpaint, procreate or Krita are fine too)

3-a treatement software such as After Effect or Nuke is a plus.

So this loop is a remake of an old animation I did back in 2016.

the 2016 one is more looking to the basic idea of a fire than the new one.  And therefore can be more efficient for some projects more focus on communication than animation quality. On the other hand, the new one is more appealing, volumetric. Gonna try a mix the two in 2022

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Fire or....rose ?

Waterball animation, made frame by frame on tvpaint

More of my work here:

Here is one of the few water shot I animated for the movie  Klaus. It is straight ahead animation like I use to animate vfx. While in production, you often don't have the time to go that far in details. For this one we luckily had time to try stuff and go a bit crazy so I took that opportunity and enjoyed every single minute spent on that shot...

Things are going serious betwwen clans in Klaus...

Tis is the moment Jasper is introduce to local traditions of Smeerensburg

One of the most enjoyable shot I animated at The Spa Studios