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Save Time in Character Animation for After Effects (Udemy.com)

Animation can be a fast process if you know the secret: Do Animation with rigged characters, with a few clicks and drags

4.6
347 reviews

Created by: 2D Animation 101 Courses

Last updated September 2018

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What you will learn

  • Rig a Character in After Effects
  • Animate your cartoon characters faster with just a few clicks and drags

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  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 67% of them
  • Reviews347#32 of 119 by number of reviews
  • Length4.6 hourslonger than 66% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2018earlier than 81% of them

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Course Description

Stop your I dont have time for this and animate quickly, using a powerful technique that helps you animate with just a few clicks and drags. The most common reason why people neglect to pursue something in their lives is because the lack of time. Lots of work, lots of things to do. Thats the very reason why millions of people love to learn how to do things faster and easier. But how can you do something if there is no such way yet? Frustration hurts, but I had to overcome it. And better yet, help others to avoid it. When I started to take a bit of my sleep time to start a project in animation, I just knew it was going to take me forever, and after the frustration of dropping the project for a couple of months, I came back for revenge! (Not in the negative way, more like in an EPIC WAY!) It was after watching a couple of tutorials for After Effects on Video Copilot that I learned the power of expressions. Got me inspired. There could actually be a way to solve this! As you know, there is no spoiler in saying this, but yes, I found a way. HOORAY! Finally, a solution! That solution is what this course is about. Teaching you how to speed up your animation time with an advanced technique: Rigged Characters. Rigging characters has been used since a couple of years ago, but what I teach you here is how to automate the movements by using expressions (Java code and lots math) inside After Effects to give you the ability to move your characters with just clicks and drags. Just check 1 hour of free lessons to see if you find the techniques interesting. What options do I have for animating a character? Picture this. You have a project in your mind, lets say, a 2 minute animation. You have the plot in your mind, its a good story and you even have the main characters drawn and ready. You know how to use After Effects, because you went to Video Copilot and learned the basics for free. Option 1: Puppet tool You could put your drawings inside After Effects and put a couple of puppet pins, so you can move the character by changing the position of the pins. Right? Well that takes a lot of time to animate, its faster than drawing frame-by-frame, but still takes a lot of time. Option 2: Cut out animation Maybe you dont know about the puppet tool technique and you just split the character into the different parts of the body. The arms, the legs, the body and the head. Everything in a separate layer. Animating that rig takes a lot of time too. Maybe its faster than classical animation but it won't be as fast as a few clicks and drags to change the position. What can you do to make it super fast? Option 3: Advanced Rigging Using a powerful rig that calculates everything for you so you only have to make a few clicks and drags to change the position of your character. Its so easy that you will remember when you played with toys Have you ever played with toys? If you wanted to raise the hand of your Action Figure or your Barbie, all you had to do was to take the hand and raise it right? Imagine if animating was that simple. Well, this is what this course is going to teach you. How to change body positions in a snap. When you find a solution, everybody wants to know it After I came up with this technique, I brought it to the studio I work for (I do motion graphics for commercials), and they went crazy. They started to ask me for lots of tips because I knew that the secret to be faster in animation was by using expressions. Anybody who knows how to use After Effects knows that the secret to speed up your work is by automating with expressions. And the only way I could help everybody, was by organizing the process and create a couple of videos. Thats when the idea for this course was born. Rigged Characters are the common way to speed your animation, everybody knows that Rigged Characters are what most professionals under a schedule use. Im talking about Nickelodeon, Disney TV. They all use techniques to rig characters and animate faster. But until now, there was no way you could achieve all this in After Effects, you had to do your animation in Toon Boom, or Animate Studio. What about us? The After Effects Community? Well, this is my contribution. An Advanced Rig that helps you control your character easily and quickly, all inside After Effects. If you havent checked yet, take a look at 1 hour of free lessons and see for yourself how easy you can achieve this rig, and how it can help you to animate faster. It all sounds great, but, What level of knowledge do I need? Because I know there is a lot of people who doesnt know how to use After Effects, I made an update and included a tour of the software. Everyone is getting it now. And if you are a veteran user, you might discover some advanced little tips that can help you cut your work time in half. Check the reviews. Animating faster is not only something people with little time need, but also big studios who work under a schedule. This course will help you achieve faster times, deliver work earlier and stay ahead of schedule. What if I dont understand something? What if I need help? If you have a question, just ask me and I try to reach as fast as possible. I answer all questions, mostly on the same day. I check my inbox twice a day. And just so you know, this course has had tons of modifications thanks to the many questions I received. Many lessons have been re recorded so anyone can understand the concepts. Really, any doubt you have is actually a way to help improve this course. Check the free lessons now! What are you waiting for? Preview the free hour of video lessons and if you believe this course is what you were looking for, enroll for the complete 4.
5 hour course and discover the secret techniques that can help you cut your working time in half. Inside you will find the project files to follow along and easy to follow instructions to achieve this powerful technique. Enroll today! Who this course is for:
This 2D Animation course is meant for beginners to intermediate users of After Effects looking for a fast way to animate, using a rigged puppet.
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Instructor Details

2D Animation 101 Courses

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, we are a group of animators who love to share everything we know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production.
Our aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Our courses will help beginners along with intermediate users.
We have helped more than 54,000+ students to discover techniques and all the knowledge they need to start animating their projects.

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4.6

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By Ng Hong Thye on 10/12/2020

The pace is right when going through the steps to up the character. Definitely learn a lot from this lesson.

By Renita E Richardson on 9/14/2020

So far so good

By Karen Newsome on 7/10/2020

The instructors sense of humor. He makes the character come alive. And, he demonstrates different poses and how the character might be feeling with the change of positioning of the body. Also, he is very detailed oriented and he shows his creativeness in how he is teaching the class.

By park on 4/9/2020

Wow

By Hamza on 4/8/2020

drawing another anime

By Paul Storm on 2/24/2020

A very fun and informative course. Really enjoyed following along and the tutor has a great sense of humour, making it a blast to learn from him. Totally recommend this course for anybody interested in the subject.

By Fadly Wychowvski Hussin on 1/13/2020

Very informative. And the presenter is precise yet funny

By Mukund mantri on 11/3/2019

The most important thing, the expressions was not explained clearly.

By John El Khoueiry on 9/25/2019

It was a very good lesson, learned a lot of tricks, very helpful!

By Brandy Yuen on 9/1/2019

Easy to understand

By Kandi Huggins on 8/4/2019

I knew a little about animating using Adobe character animate but this course is starting to help me better understand how to make my vector drawings look more 3d ish.

By Chamara Fernando on 7/15/2019

nice as beginning...

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