Character Animation 2D Skills for Better 3D (Elsevier). The Skills You’ll LearnĢD Animation for Beginners is a great workshop for artists looking to bring characters to life through traditional animation, experienced 2D animators looking to translate their skills to a digital medium, and 3D character animators looking to strengthen their posing, timing, and framing skills. Biography Character Animation Fundamentals: Developing Skills for 2D and 3D Character Animation (Reed). This workshop is not graded so that you are comfortable learning at your own pace, but we do ask that our students have a basic level of drawing ability.