What you'll learn

This course contains 83 lessons and it's around 8 hours long. The main highlights you'll learn are...

  • Learn the basics concepts to start building an animated scene and how to use all the main tools for the bouncing ball exercises.

  • Get introduced to the main principles of animation such as Timing, Spacing, Anticipation and many other basics of the Animation Arts such as Breakdowns, Working Trajectories and much more.

  • Learn the importance and all the steps to create a Workflow with Pose to Pose exercises and all the intrinsics you need to understand to create an animation from scratch.

Benefits

Buy this course and you will get...

  • 24 Assignments

    Follow up with the teacher along with the creation of your own bouncing balls exercises. Once you are ready to show, we will get one of our experienced teachers to criticize your work and have a deeper learning experience.

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    Access to twice monthly Q&A grouped sessions with any of our recognized teachers in which you may ask any question related to the course, or for feedback on your shot.

  • Unlimited access

    This course is 100% flexible with no deadlines. Adjust the progress to your personal situation and come back anytime. So don't stress ;)

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Course curriculum

    1. What do you need to do this course?

    2. Intro to setting up your scene

    3. Creating a simple Rig for the boucing ball

    4. Setting up your scene intro to the Channel Box

    5. Help Us Reach New Heights—Post Now!

    6. Creating the Camera

    7. Basic Camera Settings

    8. Adding color to your Scene

    9. Getting Ready

    1. Learning By Observation

    2. Frame Rate Standards

    3. Specific Animation Settings 1

    4. Specific Animation Settings 2

    5. Make Your Voice Count—Go Social!

    6. Extremes

    7. Ease-in & Ease-Out - Part 1

    8. Ease-in & Ease-Out - Part 2

    9. Timing Part 1

    10. Timing Part 2

    11. SQST - Squash & Stretch

    12. Spacing And Finalising

    13. Summing Up

    1. Trajectories

    2. Extremes

    3. Planning The Timing 1

    4. Planning The Timing 2

    5. Shine Online: Proudly Represent Your School!

    6. Ease-in and Ease-outs

    7. Tweak as you go

    8. The GAP

    9. SQST 1

    10. SQST 2

    11. Adding Breakdowns 1

    12. Adding Breakdowns 2

    13. Checking Trajectories 1

    14. Checking Trajectories 2

    15. Checking Trajectories 3

    16. Summing Up

    1. Specific SetUp And Focus 1

    2. Specific SetUp And Focus 2

    3. Using VideoReferences 1

    4. Using VideoReferences 2

    5. Blocking 1

    6. Blocking 2

    7. Blocking 3

    8. Be the Spark: Share What Makes Us Great!

    9. Blocking 4

    10. Blocking 5

    11. Blocking 6

    12. Blocking 7

    13. Comparing All Balls 1

    14. Comparing All Balls 2

    15. Breakdowns GAP 1

    16. Breakdowns GAP 2

    17. ComparingBalls , GAP and SQST

    18. inBetweens 1

    19. inBetweens 2

    20. inBetweens 3

    21. Weight and Energy

    22. Weight and Energy 2

    23. Rotations 1

    24. Rotations 2

    25. Rotations 3

    26. Rotations 4

    27. Rotations 5

    28. Tell Your Friends: Show Off Our School Pride!

    29. Rotations 6

    30. Rotations 7

    31. Rotations 8

    32. All Balls Together

    1. The Rig

    2. The Rig 2

    3. Planning

    4. Workflow 1

    5. Workflow 2

    6. Workflow 3

    7. Workflow 4

    1. What Do Yo uWant To Do? Creativity vs Skills

    2. Giving Life: Intro To The Antic

    3. Planning : The Video Reference

    4. The Antic

    5. The Extremes And Beyond 1

    6. The Extremes And Beyond 2

    7. Pass It On: Share and Support!

    8. Blocking

    9. Refine 1

    10. Refine 2

    11. Coil And Wheel Animation 1

    12. Coil and Wheel Animation 2

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  • 10 hours of video content

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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.