Lesson 1: Getting Started in Adobe Fresco

In this Digital Doodle Club lesson we build a weird little animated scene using Adobe Fresco. The idea is simple: a monster spinning around inside a washing machine with socks, bubbles and bits of laundry tumbling around. It might sound ridiculous, but it’s actually a great way to learn a bunch of useful digital drawing techniques at the same time. In this lesson you’ll learn how to combine vec...

In this tutorial, I take the character from the previous video and turn it into a simple animation using Fresco’s Pose Tool, path animation, and frame-by-frame techniques. You’ll see how to: Fake movement quickly with the Pose Tool Use paths for gentle swaying and hovering Build frame-by-frame animation by duplicating and adjusting frames Stretch, squash, and exaggerate motion with Liqu...

In this session I draw a simple wonky character and walk through how I use Fresco’s Pose Tool, Transform options, and Liquify tools to tweak, reshape, and experiment after the drawing is done. This is about flexibility, speed, and not starting from scratch every time.The same setup will be used in the next video when we animate the character. This post is for paying subscribers only U...