Easy Illustration and 2D Animation (Udemy.com)

Overall if you stop and rewind a whole lot you can glean some good information and techniques from this course, The guy is knowledgeable but talks too fast and makes a lot of assumptions. It's a little misleading in that the prerequisites are in fact Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, and the Duik Plugin but is seems to be geared toward beginners when you definitely need to know what you are doing on several levels to keep up. the Duik plugin installation alone is a bear and he gives no direction let alone the version he uses is different so you have to use the online manual to keep up. It took me 20 min just to add the controller because he has a button that says "controller" but the updated version is a symbol with no I.D. It difficult to say he teaches you how to make an "easy" flat character. he talks you through the shapes but give know understand of shadows, gender identification, position change ( other than a speed run he does at the end) that gives no info. Bottom line you have to have a decent amount of understanding of these programs and plugin before you start this, that needs to be made very clear in the description. Otherwise it's not bad.

Luckily I know Ai, but you skip over so many steps. First, we don't even know what your new file dimensions are. Then, throughout, you use option drag to duplicate and don't explain it, and you use comm-g a lot, and don't even tell us you're grouping. This may be a beginner character. But the teacher does not teach to beginners. I am very new to Ae. I am nervous if I'll even be able to follow in that program.

The strong accent might be discouraging. But if you need to learn how to animate in AE fast, its worth it. The course is short and straight to point. I only got confused during inverse kinematics part as I was following instructions step-by-step, but if I didn't stop the video and watched it whole I would get enlightened in 10s. If you're thinking about buying this "tutorial" during a discount, it's a clear choice.

Great course, short and focused, straight to the point! The After Effect part was a bit fast for me, because i don't have much experience with the program, but that's whats good about video, i can watch it over and over until i'll get it. The instructions were very easy to understand- so i'll be fine! thank you.

The more I retry this course, the worse I feel about it. My animation still hasn't come out right. He just left too much stuff unclear. His personality was great. However, he moved too fast through things that needed more explanation. For instance, how did he play back the animation during the walking cycle. I guess he just assumed we would already know. I had to YouTube so much extra stuff just to keep up that it became a hindrance. For instance, I didn't know you had to go to "Window" and select pathfinder to use the pathfinder tool. He just breezed through it without ANY explanation. Even using the round rectangle tool to create rounded corners was difficult--my tool doesn't work like his and I'm not sure how to get it to. The instructions he gave for the "stroke" tool must have been outdated because I couldn't find a way to follow that step. He flew through the layers portion. Most of all, he flew through the actual animation. He didn't even show how he got the animation to play back! Couldn't keep up. Overall, it could have been a great course--fun, creative, engaging. Slow down though. Please!

Just a simple tutorials with simple design and animation. This tutorial was "SIMPLY GREAT" because it was so simple to follow and imitate. I do own a lot of tutorials from Udemy, and this is one I was able to watch from start to finish in just two sitting, practicing as I followed along.

The techniques are very interesting, and once I was able to follow along things went great. He goes a bit too fast without explaining what he's doing a good amount of the time, and in the beginning of the course I had to guess at what his opening canvas size was (and I think I got it wrong). All that said, I'm eager to see what he has to teach me and look forward to animating this character!

Creo que el instructor podría dar algún detalle más acerca de los programas que utiliza. En mi caso, era la primera vez que utilizaba After Effects, y aunque he podido realizar curso, he tenido algún problema a la hora de exportar el archivo, utilizar las mesas de trabajo que por defecto me aparecen distintas que al instructor, etc...

Mark Rise has what it takes to get and hold attention. His working method is really awesome... and I love love love that accent of his. Initially the constant music bugged me but eventually after some weeks of having a break, I came back and finished it and I am glad I did. He was consice and straight to the point. This is a lecture some others would stretch into long hours, but Mark covered everything within a short time, yet very comprehensive. Thank you for this.

I was hesitated when I saw that the course is quite short but when I decided to join the class, I found that it is very creative and informative. Also, the teacher provides necessary tool and steps for taking action. It is very easy to understand and it is also inspirational. Thank you for making such a wonderful course.