Create Background Art in Adobe Photoshop

Learn how to Create Art for Animation

5.00 (235 reviews)
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Create Background Art in Adobe Photoshop
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3.5 hours
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Sep 2020
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$69.99
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What you will learn

Become an Animation Background Artist

Create Colour Concepts for Background Art and Design

Learn the techniques of digital art and concept painting

Learn Principles for background art and design

Create a background painting for animation

Learn digital art techniques

learn perspective

Create a background art painting for a scene from start to finish

Why take this course?

Background design, concept art, digital painting. All of these skills come together in this course.

Welcome to the world of background art and environment design! This course is going to teach you the fundamentals of creating art for animation, including concept art, color keys, layout drawing and final background painting.

This is your chance to learn the skills and concepts to become a background designer!

You are going to learn how to paint digitally, how to draw backgrounds and how to develop a sketch to a fully realized background for a scene.

In this course you’ll work on 2 background projects that I’ve crafted for you so that you can learn and practice different and varied styles of background art. 

Along the way you’ll also learn all about the principles of background design for animation, as well as tips and tricks that I’ve used as a background artist throughout my career in the animation industry.

In the first project, you’ll get to learn:

• all about the color wheel, and explore color harmony rules.

•You’ll learn about lighting, and how to use light and shadow in your painting.

•You’ll learn to use a specific brush pack and show you brush and painting techniques.

•You’ll also learn how to create amazing atmospheric effects in your paintings and paint up a concept art fantasy scene.


Then, we’ll dive into the world of creating a background for a scene in an animated film. The second project is based on my Pirate Project and for this, we’re going to choose a scene from the storyboard, I’m going to show you how to draw a detailed rough layout with all the elements and props. Then I’ll walk you through my entire process of painting this up to a finished background, step by step. I’ll teach you how to block in flat colours, how to craft shapes and objects within the scene and then how to add layers of textures and effects to make the final painting look like you can step into it and experience it yourself.


This course is packed with insights into the creative process of designing artwork for animation. I’ve worked really hard to make sure that in every video you can learn something new, from practical photoshop tips and techniques, to advice on how to speed up your workflow and be a better, more efficient background artist.


When you join, you’ll have access to the downloads I’ve left for you, you’ll also be able to contact me directly, get feedback on your work and ask me any questions that you have.


This course distills everything I’ve learned over my 15 years experience creating art for animation. I’ve worked as a professional background designer for animation studios in Dublin, and Vancouver, for clients such as Disney, Sony Pictures, HMH Publishing and I’m really passionate about teaching the skills and processes that took me on that journey, so that your can have the opportunity to learn this amazing skillset. In my opinion background art is the best job in animation, it’s rewarding, highly creative and above all it’s easy and enjoyable!

So I hope you are ready to start your journey to becoming an animation background artist.

See you in the course! :)

Siobhan.



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Reviews

Pedro
May 13, 2023
The teacher speaks and explains very well. The course has a really good pace to it and it helped me a lot!
David
December 22, 2022
I was able to take the techniques within this course and apply it to the background within my comic strip. I love the results, it looks so amazing.
Stefani
August 22, 2022
Truly beginner friendly. Never used Photoshop before in my life (though I've got a little experience with other programs), so every little detail helps so much. Explanation is so easy to understand too, there's no moment too confusing. Thank you.
Michael
August 11, 2022
I took this course for fun, and I loved it! The instructor presents each section very clearly and it is easy (and fun!) to follow along. I've learned so many great techniques that will be useful to both break down complicated background pieces as well as build them up in an organized step-by-step way, and I am looking forward to referring back to this treasure trove of lessons while working on my own projects. Thank you so much!
Fellipe
June 16, 2022
Uma experiência agradável e objetiva, me abriu a percepção para diversos detalhes durante a criação e montagem das cenas. Recomendo! ; )
Mitchell
March 15, 2022
As a slow learn im getting better and better within every lesson i still struggle with light interacting with objects and how to create depth without reference.
Laura
March 9, 2022
I love how all the technical and theoretical aspects of digital painting are explained in a way that's concise, compact, informative, and to the point. The emphasis is on learning by experience and getting to try things out yourself as soon as possible, which I really appreciate!
Alfredo
February 1, 2022
I am developing an original project that requires colorful original backgrounds, This course is so far the perfect match for the ideas I want to convey. The teacher is very clear and the results I am seeing are amazing . Very happy so far.
Gayle
January 17, 2022
This is a very interesting subject, the teacher is very detailed in explaining how to use the hot keys while shading, I found her pleasant and easy to follow... Gayle
Beverly
November 23, 2021
I appreciate how the instructor included a video of herself. It feels more engaging. The techniques taught are very valuable. I enjoyed learning from this course.
Henriette
November 7, 2021
This course is amazing. I found it very helpful and I learned a lot so far. I'm terrible at backgrounds, that's why I have taken this course. I wanted to get better at it and also at the same time understand how it all works. The course is very clear and shows you in easy to follow steps how to master this skill. I really enjoyed it.
Robert
October 13, 2021
I was amazed how using the pen tool and lasso tool is so effective at painting such subtle and beautiful artwork. I really learned a lot!
Hamoen
September 20, 2021
the guidance for the second assignment is more thorough. Something I definitely appreciate. Exactly what I wanted.
Coman
July 25, 2021
It really gave me a great understanding of how backgrounds are shadowed and textured now even watching cartoons i can see the linework and how it was done this has really helped me make professional level backgrounds and apply this process to any of them i highly recommend it thank you so much for this i really appreciate it
Vincent
June 23, 2021
Amazing so far. Love the class and using the iPhone 12 Pro to watch this was a breeze. No issues what’s eve. I would have loved a more stronger connection with airplay to send to the AppleTV. All in all, minor issues and ones that I could live without being fixed! Good job Udemy team!

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