Character Rigging & Animation FUNdamentals in Adobe After Effects

What You Will Learn?

• Learn how to bring an inanimate object to life as a fun and quirky animated character. This class covers a complete character animation workflow for beginners, including illustration, rigging and animation..
• This class utilizes non-human characters that can be animated in a stylized way, to avoid the need for accuracy, and instead focus on the foundational aspects of rigging and animation..
• Plus, personifying something unexpected is an exercise in learning the nuances of movement that give something human-like qualities, even if it isn't human..
• Character animation enables the viewer to picture themselves in the character's shoes, and relate your message to their own life. But character animation can be challenging if you don't know how to set up a character to be animated (aka rigging), or how to move a character in a stylized yet realistic way..
• Who this class is for:.
• This class is for motion designers who are familiar with After Effects and want to animate the style of characters that you often see in motion graphics, like explainer videos. This method of animating characters differs from frame-by-frame animated cartoons because there's no drawing involved..
• This class is the perfect first step in learning character animation, but if you've never used After Effects before, check out my After Effects Orientation and a few of my beginner classes first..
• What you should know before taking this class:.
• Character rigging & animation tool you'll need:.
• What you'll learn:.
• This class is a mixture of theory and hands-on step-by-step instruction..
• On the theory side, you'll learn about:.
• On the hands-on side, you'll:.
• This class will give you a little taste of each step of character illustration, rigging and animation. From here, you'll be ready to dive deeper into each topic to master different styles and more complex characters..
• After this class, check out my other classes:.
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