Make Motion Comics (Udemy.com)

Animate Your Comics + Illustrations In Adobe Photoshop, After Effects + Character Animator

( 7 Reviews )

Created by: David Miller

Produced in 2018

What you will learn

turn your illustrations and comic artwork into films
use Photoshop to animate comic illustrations through frame by frame animation
use Character Animator to do motion capture animation with synchronized audio
use After Effects to do keyframe animation, add special effects and incorporate various kinds of media for scenes

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Overall Score : 62 / 100

Course Description

Welcome to the world of Motion Comics! This is a specialized form of animation using portions of original artwork to animate a story rather than individual drawings for each frame or cgi characters. By animating in this style, you are able to keep the aesthetic of individually drawn panels with complicated foregrounds and backgrounds; you are able to make your comics into films.
This class is broken down into 3 distinct approaches, which I used to make my own 14 minute motion comic animation "Innocence of Seduction":

Adobe Photoshop - breaking down illustrations into individual components and animating Frame by Frame
Adobe Character Animator - using your webcam to give Motion Capture animation to Photoshop puppets and Character Animator's functions to synchronize audio to our character's talking heads
Adobe After Effects - placing our characters into a scene, working with Keyframe animation and applying special effects like blurs and camera shake

After I show you how I made my motion comics in these programs, I have a demo using advanced Character Animator and After Effects techniques on how I gave specific animated superpowers to Marvel Comics' X-Men characters.
Tools:
This class uses animation techniques in Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and a sub-program of After Effects called Character Animator, so you'll need access to those to start with. We'll cover the basics of each program so if this is your first time animating, this class is for you!
For my demo, I chose to use public domain Golden Age comics, so I'll show you how to break apart and clean up the artwork from these scans. If you need artwork, feel free to follow my example, or use your own illustrations.

Some expectations:
This class is designed to work with flat, comic book-style illustrations.
This class is not for people who are more interested in fully rendered, realistic animation in the vein of Pixar.
Also, we are focused on the technique and not on a final, fully completed 30 minute film with sound and voices. The final stories and editing are so unique project-to-project that I have chose to focus on these animation methods.
Check out the trailer and free lectures to learn more about the amazing world of Motion Comics, and see you in class!

Who this course is for:

illustrators who want to animate their work
filmmakers who want to learn animation
comic creators who want to create multimedia teasers for their social media

Time: 2h

Instructor Details

David Miller

3.1 Rating
7 Reviews

David was born in 1977 in Omaha, NE. He graduated with his BFA in Photography from Arizona State University in 2006, creating portrait series that reflected both the hyperkinetic films, games and comics of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as more humanist documentary work with Indigenous communities in America and Australia.
After ASU he became a teaching artist as well as exhibing around the Southwest/ West Coast and been published in numerous magazines such as Orion, View Camera, B+W/ Color, and others. In 2014 he was named as one of the top 100 Creatives of Arizona by New Times Magazine. He currently lives in Chandler with wife Vesna and 2 children, Patrick and Magdalena.

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By Mat Taylor

basic

By Ric Rags

Mostly talk and not much action. Poorly edited. No continuous project that can be worked on by the student. If you squint really hard you can get something out of this but it's more like a general overview. I have watched better tutorials on YouTube for free. I'm sure he did his best but you're really not going to learn how to make a motion comic from this.

The teacher seems like a nice person but that doesn't make it a good course.

By Lisa Burgess

Even though i'm doing a more modern side of this course, I'm finding it rather nice to listen to.

I'm doing the course for research purposes and i'm going to see if i can do a more modern touch on it. I'm not a comic book artist however i like doing keyframes and seeing how i can slightly animate them to tell a story. So this is really interesting and i'm excited to try out some new things later.

By Ashish Pandey

Totally Incomplete,

No project files

No correlation between the sections

feels like an Introduction rather than a course

Awful need to fix the course by actually guiding the student step by step doing everything not picking up everything from other projects and imagining that the student caught up.

A mere waste of time and trust in UDEMY!!!

By Daniel White

It's moving way too fast for me as a beginner and not explaining everything they're doing

By Fidel Orozco Gómez

Buen curso que da ideas y oruentación de como realizar un trabajo de animación profesional de comics. Mi único problema es que realiza todo con la suite de Adobe y es algo que ya no quiero utilizar.

By Joseph Mercado