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2D Animation With No Drawing Skills in AE

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 tutor...

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Course Description

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 yo...

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.

What you’ll learn
  • 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.

Covering Topics

1
Section 1 : Start Here
2
Section 2 : Character Emotion
3
Section 3 : Character Design
4
Section 4 : Planning a Project
5
Section 5 : Introduction to Rigging Tutorials
6
Section 6 : Rigging The Character
7
Section 7 : Prepearing Controllers
8
Section 8 : Working with the Mouth
9
Section 9 : Emotional Lip Sync
10
Section 10 : Technical Tips to Know Before Animating
11
Section 11 : Animation Tutorials
12
Section 12 : Wrapping Up The Course

Curriculum

      Section 1 : Start Here
1
Introduction Preview
2
"Who Is Better" Short Film
3
Introduction Preview
4
Two Secrets To Do Awesome Animations
5
Example of Simple and Interesting
6
Interesting Character in a Good Story
7
Analyzing "Who Is Better"
      Section 2 : Character Emotion
8
Emotional Expression And Body Language Preview
9
Character Relationships
10
Relationship Examples
      Section 3 : Character Design
11
Designing Characters With Geometric Shapes
12
Body Language From Geometric Shapes
13
Expressing With The Mouth
14
Working With References
15
Designing Simple Characters
      Section 4 : Planning a Project
16
Planning Your Animation With a Storyboard Preview
17
Hiring Voice Talent
18
Preparing for the Animatic Preview
19
Editing The Animatic
20
Finished Animatic for "Who Is Better"
      Section 5 : Introduction to Rigging Tutorials
21
Introduction to Rigging Tutorials
22
Getting Adobe After Effects (For those who dont have it yet)
23
New Composition in After Effects (For absolute Beginners)
24
Creating the Body for Simple (The circle)
25
Creating Arms and Legs for Simple
      Section 6 : Rigging The Character
26
Automation Using Expressions Preview
27
Setting Forward Kinematics
28
Setting Inverse Kinematics
29
Rigging the Right Arm and Legs
      Section 7 : Prepearing Controllers
30
Creating and Aligning Controllers
31
Connecting the Body with Controllers
32
Cleaning the Timeline
      Section 8 : Working with the Mouth
33
Mouth Expression Research Preview
34
Drawing The Mouth Variations
35
Prepare Mouth for Emotional Lip-Sync
36
Animating the First Two Mouths for the Lip Sync Preview
37
Animating the rest of the Mouths
38
Preparing the Mouth with Expression Controls
39
Head Turn Effect
40
Activating the Flip Switch to rotate the Mouth
      Section 9 : Emotional Lip Sync
41
Emotional Auto Lip-Sync using Expressions
42
Adding Dialogue to test Auto Lip Sync
43
Wiggly Body for Maniac Effects
44
Simple Shading
      Section 10 : Technical Tips to Know Before Animating
45
Introduction to Animation Tutorials Preview
46
Tips on Changing the Elbow/Knee Angles Part 1
47
Tips on Changing the Elbow/Knee Angles Part 2
48
Refining the Lip Sync
49
Basic Frame Units in Animations at 24 fps Preview
50
Basic Frame Units for Reaction Movements
51
Applying the 5 to 10 frame rule
52
Basic Frame Units for Aggressive Movements
      Section 11 : Animation Tutorials
53
Preparing the Timeline for the Posing
54
Adding two more markers
55
Posing the 1st Keyframe: "Like Me"
56
Posing the 2nd Keyframe: Body, Hand and Mouth
57
Posing the 2nd Keyframe: Left Hand and Hips
58
Posing the 2nd Keyframe: Correcting the Left Leg
59
Posing the 3rd Keyframe
60
Adding Markers for Anticipation and Aftermath
61
Animating the Anticipation of the 1st Pose
62
Animating the Aftermath of the 1st Pose
63
Applying Ease and Wizz
64
Animating the Anticipation of the 2nd Pose
65
Fixing the Left Leg
66
Fixing the Right Arm
67
Animating the Anticipation of the 3rd Pose
68
Fixing the Right Hand Drop
69
Fixing the Left Leg for Final Position
      Section 12 : Wrapping Up The Course
70
Closing thoughts on Body Language Animation
71
CHALLENGE: Animating 3 seconds
72
Prepare Composition for Rendering
73
Rendering for YouTube in After Effects

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