The Essence of 3d Animation


Learn by observation and imitation. Follow Join this course step by step, frame by frame, and learn the essence of 3D animation. Learn how to improve your posing by understanding its appeal, workflow and timing skills, and many other different techniques and tips of 15 years of experience in the animation film industry

*Streaming courses do not include assignments, teacher feedback, or certifications.

Course curriculum

    1. 1.1 What's this about?

    1. Mod 2 Student Package

    2. 2.1 What’s the essence of animation?

    3. 2.2 The pose

    4. 2.3 Timing

    5. 2.4 The workflow

    6. 2.5 Scheduling

    7. 2.6 Going beyond: Rethinking the 12 principles of animation

    8. 2.7 Observing life

    9. 2.8 Learning animation by observation and imitation

    10. 2.9 Summary

    1. Mod 3 Student Package

    2. 3.1 Anticipating the limitations

    3. 3.2 The character

    4. 3.3 Practice : Character study

    5. 3.4 The audio

    6. 3.5 Practice : Get familiar with the scene and the audio

    7. 3.6 Deadlines

    8. 3.7 Practice : Deadlines

    9. 3.8 Summary

    1. Mod 4 Student Package

    2. 4.1 Intro to the Method for animators

    3. 4.2 The Method for Animators ( 1/ 3 )

    4. 4.2 The Method for Animators ( 2/ 3 )

    5. 4.2 The Method for Animators ( 3/ 3 )

    6. 4.3 Shot Planning 1 . The performance

    7. 4.4 Shot Planning 2 . Identifying the bits and the Golden Poses

    8. 4.4 Identifying the bits and the Golden Poses ( 1/3 )

    9. 4.4 Identifying the bits and the Golden Poses ( 2/3 )

    10. 4.4 Identifying the bits and the Golden Poses ( 3/3 )

    11. 4.5 Adding depth to the Golden Poses. How to push poses ( 1/2 )

    12. 4.5 Adding depth to the Golden Poses. How to push poses ( 2/2 )

    13. 4.6 Pushing the energies

    14. 4.7 Practice : Deepening your own poses

    15. 4.8 Summary

    1. Mod 5 Student Package

    2. 5.0 Intro to working the Golden Poses

    3. 5.1 Posing with the SUCCES rule

    4. 5.2 Learning appeal

    5. 5.3 Entertainment value

    6. 5.4 Tips on posing

    7. 5.5 Practice with the shot course. Posing the Golden Poses ( 1/5 )

    8. 5.5 Practice with the shot course. Posing the Golden Poses ( 2/5 )

    9. 5.5 Practice with the shot course. Posing the Golden Poses ( 3/5 )

    10. 5.5 Practice with the shot course. Posing the Golden Poses ( 4/5 )

    11. 5.5 Practice with the shot course. Posing the Golden Poses ( 5/5 )

    12. 5.6 How to copy animation

    13. 5.7 Rest

    14. 5.8 Summary

    1. Mod 6 Student Package

    2. 6.0 Intro to working the first blocking pass

    3. 6.1 About Key Poses

    4. 6.2 The timing of the dialogue

    5. 6.3 Posing the Key Poses

    6. 6.4 Simplicity

    7. 6.5 Practice: Extracting the key poses based on the audio dialogue ( 1/3 )

    8. 6.5 Practice: Extracting the key poses based on the audio dialogue ( 2/3 )

    9. 6.5 Practice: Extracting the key poses based on the audio dialogue ( 3/3 )

    10. 6.6 The flow

    11. 6.7 Practice : First blocking pass after working flow ( 1/2 )

    12. 6.7 Practice : First blocking pass after working flow ( 2/2 )

    13. 6.8 Summary: Blocking 2 - First blocking pass

About this course

  • Free
  • 102 lessons
  • 12.5 hours of video content

Who is teaching this?

Character Animator / Director / Founder Jorge Vigara

Jorge is a character animator and director with over 17 years of experience in the animation industry. He has worked for a large variety of formats such as film, tv, advertising, short films, VR and feature films. He is also the founder of Animawarriors.com. Amongst more that 20 titles in his belt, his credits include Hotel Transylvania 1 & 2, Despicable Me, The Smurfs 2, Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs 2 , Storks and many more.