2D Animation With No Drawing Skills in AE

2D Animation With No Drawing Skills in AE, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 82 lectures, 4 quizzes, based on 562 reviews, and has 6022 subscribers.

You will learn about Design Simple Characters Do Character Animation, expressing with body language This course is ideal for individuals who are Absolute beginners who don't have any drawing skills and would like to learn animation. or Not for students with a lot of experience in Character Animation It is particularly useful for Absolute beginners who don't have any drawing skills and would like to learn animation. or Not for students with a lot of experience in Character Animation.

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Summary

Title: 2D Animation With No Drawing Skills in AE

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 82

Number of Quizzes: 4

Number of Published Lectures: 82

Number of Published Quizzes: 4

Number of Curriculum Items: 86

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 86

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Design Simple Characters

Do Character Animation, expressing with body language

Who Should Attend

Absolute beginners who don't have any drawing skills and would like to learn animation.

Not for students with a lot of experience in Character Animation

Target Audiences

Absolute beginners who don't have any drawing skills and would like to learn animation.

Not for students with a lot of experience in Character Animation

This course is divided in 3 parts:

1. Theory(Secrets to do awesome animation with no drawing skills, and how to make interesting characters no matter how simple they look)
2. Rigging (A series of tutorials that teaches you how to rig a character step by step)
3. 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.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Start Here

Lecture 1: "Who Is Better" Short Film

Lecture 2: Introduction

Lecture 3: Two Secrets To Do Awesome Animations

Lecture 4: Example of Simple and Interesting

Lecture 5: Interesting Character in a Good Story

Lecture 6: Analyzing "Who Is Better"

Lecture 7: Review: Getting Started PDF

Chapter 2: Character Emotion

Lecture 1: Emotional Expression And Body Language

Lecture 2: Character Relationships

Lecture 3: Relationship Examples

Lecture 4: Review: Character Emotion PDF

Chapter 3: Character Design

Lecture 1: Designing Characters With Geometric Shapes

Lecture 2: Body Language From Geometric Shapes

Lecture 3: Expressing With The Mouth

Lecture 4: Working With References

Lecture 5: Designing Simple Characters

Lecture 6: Klay Tutorials

Lecture 7: Review: Character Design PDF

Chapter 4: Planning a Project

Lecture 1: Planning Your Animation With a Storyboard

Lecture 2: Hiring Voice Talent

Lecture 3: Download the Project Files

Lecture 4: Preparing for the Animatic

Lecture 5: Editing The Animatic

Lecture 6: Finished Animatic for "Who Is Better"

Lecture 7: Review: Planning a Project PDF

Chapter 5: Introduction to Rigging Tutorials

Lecture 1: Introduction to Rigging Tutorials

Lecture 2: Getting Adobe After Effects (For those who don't have it yet)

Lecture 3: New Composition in After Effects (For absolute Beginners)

Lecture 4: Creating the Body for Simple (The circle)

Lecture 5: Creating Arms and Legs for Simple

Chapter 6: Rigging The Character

Lecture 1: Automation Using Expressions

Lecture 2: Getting Duik Plug in and Project Files for the Tutorials

Lecture 3: Setting Forward Kinematics

Lecture 4: Setting Inverse Kinematics

Lecture 5: Rigging the Right Arm and Legs

Chapter 7: Prepearing Controllers

Lecture 1: Creating and Aligning Controllers

Lecture 2: Connecting the Body with Controllers

Lecture 3: Cleaning the Timeline

Chapter 8: Working with the Mouth

Lecture 1: Mouth Expression Research

Lecture 2: Drawing The Mouth Variations

Lecture 3: Prepare Mouth for Emotional Lip-Sync

Lecture 4: Animating the First Two Mouths for the Lip Sync

Lecture 5: Animating the rest of the Mouths

Lecture 6: Preparing the Mouth with Expression Controls

Lecture 7: Head Turn Effect

Lecture 8: Activating the Flip Switch to rotate the Mouth

Chapter 9: Emotional Lip Sync

Lecture 1: Emotional Auto Lip-Sync using Expressions

Lecture 2: Adding Dialogue to test Auto Lip Sync

Lecture 3: Wiggly Body for Maniac Effects

Lecture 4: Simple Shading

Chapter 10: Technical Tips to Know Before Animating

Lecture 1: Introduction to Animation Tutorials

Lecture 2: Getting EASE AND WIZZ

Lecture 3: Tips on Changing the Elbow/Knee Angles Part 1

Lecture 4: Tips on Changing the Elbow/Knee Angles Part 2

Lecture 5: Refining the Lip Sync

Lecture 6: Basic Frame Units in Animations at 24 fps

Lecture 7: Basic Frame Units for Reaction Movements

Lecture 8: Applying the 5 to 10 frame rule

Lecture 9: Basic Frame Units for Aggressive Movements

Chapter 11: Animation Tutorials

Lecture 1: Preparing the Timeline for the Posing

Lecture 2: Adding two more markers

Lecture 3: Posing the 1st Keyframe: "Like Me"

Lecture 4: Posing the 2nd Keyframe: Body, Hand and Mouth

Lecture 5: Posing the 2nd Keyframe: Left Hand and Hips

Lecture 6: Posing the 2nd Keyframe: Correcting the Left Leg

Lecture 7: Posing the 3rd Keyframe

Lecture 8: Adding Markers for Anticipation and Aftermath

Lecture 9: Animating the Anticipation of the 1st Pose

Lecture 10: Animating the Aftermath of the 1st Pose

Lecture 11: Applying Ease and Wizz

Lecture 12: Animating the Anticipation of the 2nd Pose

Lecture 13: Fixing the Left Leg

Lecture 14: Fixing the Right Arm

Lecture 15: Animating the Anticipation of the 3rd Pose

Lecture 16: Fixing the Right Hand Drop

Lecture 17: Fixing the Left Leg for Final Position

Chapter 12: Wrapping Up The Course

Lecture 1: Closing thoughts on Body Language Animation

Lecture 2: CHALLENGE: Animating 3 seconds

Lecture 3: Prepare Composition for Rendering

Lecture 4: Rendering for YouTube in After Effects

Lecture 5: Getting Adobe Media Encoder

Lecture 6: BONUS LESSON: "What's Next?"

Instructors

2D Animation 101 Courses
Animation Courses for Beginners

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 23 votes

2 stars: 10 votes

3 stars: 51 votes

4 stars: 146 votes

5 stars: 332 votes

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