The Complete Beginner's Guide to Animation Bundle

Want to learn to save time by designing faster? Speed up your animation time with an advanced technique: Rigged Characters. Rigging characters has been used for a few years, but this course will teach you to automate the movements by using expressions (Java code and lots math) inside After Effects. With these skills, you'll be able to move your characters with just clicks and drags.

• Learn from 38 lectures & 4+ hours of video content
• Use a powerful rig that calculates everything for you so you only have to make a few clicks & drags to change the position of your character
• Follow along w/ the included project files & easy-to-follow instructions to achieve this powerful technique
• Ask any questions & get responses from the instructor
• Get a tour of After Effects if you are new to it
• Use the techniques used by professionals at Nickelodeon & Disney

In this course, the instructor will show you how to use an editing software to help with your animations. Please note that this course is not about animation, but how to EDIT your animations as well as animate your projects better.

• Learn from 14 lectures & 1+ hours of video content
• Learn to use the basics of Adobe Premiere Pro
• Study everything you need to use an editing software for animation
• Includes the project files in a zip file so you can follow along & practice
• Apply anything you learn here to other types of editing software

Knowing how to direct and produce can make any idea become a reality. And the cool part is that you don't even need to know how to draw or animate to get started. If you have an idea or joke you want to turn into an animation, enroll today and start making your ideas a reality in half the time.

• Learn from 68 lectures & 2+ hours of video
• Direct & produce animation with no drawing or animating skills
• Guide a team in following your vision
• Perfect for anyone w/ an idea who's considering making it into an animation

Picture this: you have an idea that you want to animate, and concepts for characters that will move the story. How do they look? Are they friendly? Aggressive? Stubborn? You decide on your direction, but then get criticized for your characters not looking inline with their personalities. How can you make your characters communicate the personality you dream up? That is where this course can help. Throughout this course, you will learn the theory behind character psychology and how to communicate those emotions through your designs. You'll establish different attitudes using shape, e.g. round features versus pointy features. Once you understand the theory, you will practice the whole process of putting your character to paper. You will learn:

• How to create memorable characters
• The theory behind character psychology
• Four basic areas of personality
• How to define attitude
• The basics of concept art
• Shapes & meaning
• Different angles & the importance of using a storyboard
• How to trace each part of the body so you have the character well connected & ready to be rigged in After Effects
• Includes 33 lectures & 2+ hours of video

Do you want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to design and present your characters? This course was created for future character designers and animators who want to learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator and use those new skills on upcoming projects. You will learn all the essentials you need to trace images, turn paper drawings into presentable products that you can sell, and design characters. Beginners will go from zero to hero following along with the practice exercises — and savvy users will benefit from new techniques you may never have known existed. You will learn:

• All the basic interface navigations
• All the essential panels
• The drawings tools
• What tools to use if you have a Wacom Tablet, or for those who don’t have a drawing tablet, then what tools to use when designing w/ a mouse
• All the basic drawing tools in detail
• How to create a color palette
• How to paint your work using the live paint feature
• How to add shadows and highlights easily
• 40 lectures & 2+ hours of video content

In this course, you will learn how to use Photoshop to create backgrounds for your animations. The complete tutorial will show you the techniques to be able to create the backgrounds and visual assets to produce your animations from scratch. If you're already familiar with Photoshop, you can jump ahead to the Background Tutorial to start creating! You will learn:

• How to use the different drawing shapes
• How to modify your drawing
• How to work with layers
• How to use the masking tools to create the effect of putting one drawing inside a shape
• How to add texture
• How to import reference images to trace backgrounds
• How to create a 3D effect that helps you create interesting perspectives, using point distortion
• Includes 18 lectures & 2+ hours of video

When it comes to being an animator, being "decent" at drawing is likely good enough. If you are just starting, and you are not good at drawing, then this course will be your definitive guide to honing your craft. Inside this course, you will learn:

• How to develop enough skill to draw anything you want in any style you want
• The difference between drawing & sketching
• How to measure proportions
• How to duplicate references
• How to draw basic 2d shapes & combine them to draw what you want
• How to sketch basic 3d shapes
• How to draw perspective using vanishing points & perspective lines
• How to sketch a 3d scene
• How to sketch & design very simple characters
• How to sketch poses in 2D
• How to sketch character poses in 3D
• How to sketch thumbnails for animation
• How to draw hands
• 17 lectures & 2+ hours of video content

Want to get paid to do something you love? If you are a 2D animator, you could start earning a respectable salary living out your dreams as a freelance animator today. And if you continue to work at it and hone your craft, you could be looking at a six figure career down the road. But to become a successful freelance animator, you'll need to promote yourself, do market research, handle customer service, deal with angry customers, manage your finances, and learn how to market your services. That's why this course teaches you the principles of how to become a successful seller on Fiverr, an online marketplace that has around 20 million visits per month. You'll study shortcuts, and learn from successful Fiverr users. Please note: this is not a get-rich quick scheme, these are real world techniques used by the top sellers on Fiverr who make 40K a month in revenue.

• Learn from 20 lectures & 2+ hours of video content
• Get book recommendations to further your education on personal growth
• Learn how to promote yourself, do market research, handle customer service, deal with angry customers, manage your finances & market your services