{"id":5129,"date":"2020-05-26T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T14:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:28:46","slug":"animation-stuff-a-video-series-by-andrea-gertsmann-to-help-you-get-started-creating-your-own-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/animation-stuff-a-video-series-by-andrea-gertsmann-to-help-you-get-started-creating-your-own-animations\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Animation Stuff&#8221;: A basic primer to help you get started creating your own animations"},"content":{"rendered":"Animator Andrea Gerstmann works in TV animation. In this charming little playlist, she demonstrates the basics of animation as she draws and animates a fox.\u00a0 Andrea is great at breaking down the animation process into small, easily-digestible sections, and not only explains how to do things but why she's doing them.\n<h2>How to design a fox for animation using Adobe Photoshop<\/h2>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U_86PaNHDBg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<h2>Character rotation of the fox<\/h2>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/almmGkxIUyk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<h2>Background design tips and tricks<\/h2>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDvGas5KkI0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>Painting a forest background<\/h2>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zijtkZ03XLg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<h2>Animating a fox trotting (quadruped walk cycle)<\/h2>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yl3IX6hgNss\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Learn more about Andrea<\/h1>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.agerstmann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCtT23frjDyraXQAYmmfrnJQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/andreagerstmann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2326,2325],"tags":[657,658,659,660,97,661],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","category-back-to-school","tag-animation-stuff","tag-background-design","tag-background-painting","tag-flash","tag-photoshop","tag-quadruped-walk-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}