About this course
Have you ever wanted to learn how to draw ? Do you have great ideas for characters that you have always wanted to animate and bring to life ? Do you want to learn from an Award Winning animator ?
>In this course students will learn all about traditional animation. This course will cover everything from the basics of traditional animation, how characters move, facial expressions and some application such as paper & pencil animation, stop motion, and using programs such as Flash, Photoshop and After Effects.
After learning some of the traditional animation technique taught in this course, students will be able to make their own animated video using only paper, pencil, and a cell phone. In addition, students will also learn how to make stop motion videos using everyday objects.
Students will also receive Photoshop, Flash CS5 and After Effects files of the materials used in this course and follow along with the instructor who is working from the same exactly files. After the course, students can continue to use these files as examples and templates for their next big project !
What are the requirements?
- Dowload trials of Flash CS5, Photoshop, and After Effect
- Smartphone or Camera
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 43 lectures and 2 hours of content!
- Understand the basic principles of traditional animation, character expressions, walk cycle and lip sync
- Get started animating quickly without nececessarily using fancy programs, only your phone, paper and pencil
- Apply the traditional animation skills using programs such as Flash, Photoshop and After Effects ( AE )
- Get introduced to stop motion techniques, create your own armature puppet, be able to produce your own stop motion video
- Be able to create your own animation Vine completely on your smartphone and upload it directly to the website
What is the target audience?
- People who are completely unfamiliar with basic principle of traditional animation
- People who want to learn how to animate quickly
- People who want to learn how to make traditional animation and stop motion videos they can upload to Vine and Youtube
- People who want to learn how to create basic armature puppets for stop motion videos
