Mark Rise

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.
- Review by Chavaras Trice on Easy Illustration and 2D Animation