Master character creation and animation in After Effects, focusing on body language and expressiveness without the need for drawing skills.
This fun course teaches you how to create and animate simple characters in After Effects! You'll learn the secrets of expressing emotions without needing drawing skills and rigging your characters step by step. It's all about having fun and exploring body language!
Learn to create and animate characters who express with body language in After Effects
This course is divided in 3 parts:
Theory (Secrets to do awesome animation with no drawing skills, and how to make interesting characters no matter how simple they look)
Rigging (A series of tutorials that teaches you how to rig a character step by step)
Animation (Another series of tutorials that teaches you how to animate body language for simple characters)
There are a couple of things you need to understand to achieve simple animations.
Shapes
Body Language
Emotional Expression
Character Relationships
What makes a good story
And for your character, you only need a Body, Arms, Legs and a Mouth. Eyes are optional.
If a simple circle has personality, people will watch it.
Our personal purpose is to help anyone interested in Animation to start practicing with little projects, simple Characters, and most of all, explore the expressiveness of their Body Language and Character Acting.
Many people seldom to start learning 2D animation because they are convinced that you need to know how to draw.
While drawing skills can help you to improve, that is not the essential skill to do animation. For animation you need to understand the most basic principles in animation, like timing, anticipation, pose to pose.
Concepts that Thomas and Johnson, 2 of the animation masters in Disney talk about in their famous book, Illusion of Life.
This course puts those basic concepts into practice and also explains step by step how to achieve great body language when a character is talking.
What you will get:
Lifetime Access to all the Lessons: This is not a membership course. We offer a 1 time payment to have full access to all the lessons, and if you claim your spot, you will have everything for free.
Downloadable Project Files: You can download the project files to follow along with the tutorials and practice on your own. Heck! You can even skip the Theory and start with Animation!
Access to Student Discussions: In here you will be able to share any ideas or projects you are currently working on with other fellow students, and even ask for help when needed.
Step by Step In Depth Explanations: The course covers everything from Theory to Practice. You will learn how to set up your characters and why; with tutorials to help you animate them.
Printable Workbooks: Thanks to all the feedback from all the students in our other courses, we decided to add Practical Guides that will help you set your characters easier.
Full HD Video Tutorials: All the lessons were recorded in Full HD so you can see every detail and every step of the process. Every click and every keyboard stroke is shown.
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With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, we are a group of animators who love to share everything we know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production. Our aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to...
Amazing course, love it
My After Effects 2021 doesn't behave exactly as told in the lecture. Apparently Adobe has changed a few things. But still, it's really great and I do recommend this course!
Simply amazing stuff being taught!!! beautiful!
Content is a little outdated, specifically the Duik content. And the source materials are incomplete..
The technical part of this tutorial is out of date. A key plug-in needed (for rigging your characters) is out of date and the new versions are very different. I got stuck and had to abandon. As far as I can tell from the Q&A Board, there is no support or updates coming from the creators. Very disapointed.
super !!
I want to start animating and this class is soooooö helpful :)
Fantastic, why not make a more easy version for beginners with Cartoon Animator and Photoshop. I know it could not be so good like this, but I would buy it for sure, because that is to my beginner level :-) Hope it came soon :-)
It is entertaining and full of useful information. I like how the subject matter was presented.
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Tanayah F.
I like the course and the speed it takes, It is slightly hard to hear for me and the captions sometimes don't match up with the video, making it harder to understand. But the overall speeds and execution of this course is great so far.