Photoshop Tutorial Sites

[Jona]

Hey, everyone, I'm looking for some good sites that have tutorials for Photoshop on them. Specifically, I'm looking for tutorials on character design and animated cartoon animals. I know it can be done in Photoshop, but since I'm fairly new to the concept of character design, I have only a slight clue as to where to start--and even that I am unsure of. If anyone has any good tutorial sites concerning this, please tell me. Thanks.

(And http://thewebmachine.com/ is a good site, but mainly for text effects--not character design.)

[J]ona

[Compguy Pete]

I haven't been to all of these but there suppose to be what you need.

http://www.voidix.com/
http://www.absolutecross.com/
http://student.powerhouse.net/andreas.Oberg/
http://www.screaming-art.com/
http://www.deepspaceweb.com/
http://www.jlswebsource.com/
http://rockerboo.com/v7/tentut
http://www.adobeevangelists.com/

[Jona]

Thanks a lot, those are pretty good resources... But they aren't quite what I'm looking for. I was hoping there was a way to create an animated character, for example a bear, with human-like features (a suit, tie, it can talk, walks on its hind legs, etc.), without having to draw it with a mouse or purchase a plugin-pad to draw on.

[J]ona

[Compguy Pete]

Then what your looking for is infomation on how to use ImageReady.

It's a little side program of Photoshop's that allows for creating animated gif's Or a file to export to Premeire or Flash.

[Jona]

Originally posted by Compguy Pete
Then what your looking for is infomation on how to use ImageReady.

It's a little side program of Photoshop's that allows for creating animated gif's Or a file to export to Premeire or Flash.

It's not that I want to create animated GIFs, it's just that I want to learn how to create a cartoon character (human or animal) to export to Flash, but I don't want to draw it by hand or with a mouse.

[J]ona

[chris9902]

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then use a pen and paper

[Jona]

Originally posted by chris9902
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then use a pen and paper

Originally posted by me (Jona)
... But I don't want to draw it by hand or with a mouse.

Like I said, I don't want to have to draw it by hand (or with a mouse). I want to use Photoshop to make the cartoon character.

[J]ona

[chris9902]

so you don't want to use your hand or mouse.

???????

then you the power of your mind obi one

[Jona]

I'm Yoda!

Seriously, though, I know there's got to be a different way to use shapes and stuff to do it. I just need a tutorial on it. I found a tutorial at this one site that showed how to create a watch (very realistic, but that's not what I'm getting at), and he used the pen tool (not free-hand) with the anchor tool to make the shape of it; but it doesn't explain very well how to make the shape and it says nothing about creating a character (because it's a watch tutorial!).

[J]ona

[Dark Dragon]

Geez Jona..you don't make this too easy for us.
...you don't want to draw it in any way shape or form..so all I can say is find some clip art or find some images in comics or whatever then scan them into photoshop.

Or by using some of the links perhaps you can find a way to make what you want using basic shapes and filters..

[Compguy Pete]

Also most people will do a majority of the art in Adobe Illustrator, then import into photoshop and go from there...

[Jona]

I wasn't trying to make it "hard" for everyone...

Compguy Pete, I'll look into Adobe Illustrator. Does it automatically create some sort of character or something like that? I've never used the program, and I haven't really looked into it or anything, so I don't know much about it.

[J]ona

[Dark Dragon]

Just joking Jona..

But seriously, there is no program that I know of that will "automatically" make something for you.

Programs like Photoshop or Illustrator can add effects to things or merge images and so on but you cannot just type into a program "Cartoon Bear" and it makes it for you..though it would be interesting.

Adobe Illustrator is another graphics program like Photoshop where you can do lots of things including adding some very realistic gradient effects..sometimes better than Photoshop.....

[Jona]

I see. Hmm... Well, I looked and found that http://comicsone.com/ uses Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for its comics, so apparently they have been drawn by hand or with a mouse... I thought that you could draw them by clicking in shapes with the pen-tool, I mean, I know you can, but I thought that there was an easier way to get that to work.

But there must be some tutorial online to teach how to create an animated character in Photoshop. I had assumed it was a simple task, since there are so many people who use Photoshop for character creation online; but am I mistaken?

[J]ona

[Compguy Pete]

The thing is you could do it without a digi pad...

Illustrator has the ability to have "end points" that you can push and pull to get the curves and other shapes you want.

Most logo's are created in Illustrator and most graphic artists don't need a pen... simply just a good understanding of the program.

So give it time...