This advanced AnimSchool course pushes you past technical animation into the territory where characters actually feel alive. You’ll learn how to make better acting choices, refine your…
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Character Performance is where animation stops being about mechanics and starts being about making an audience believe. This intermediate course from AnimSchool pushes you past body mechanics…
This program is all about making characters that feel alive. You’ll start from the ground up, learning the tools and principles that professional animators use every day.…
Body Acting is an intermediate-level course from AnimSchool’s 3D Animation Program. It’s all about communicating story, personality, and emotion through a character’s physical performance. The main assignment?…
This course is all about making characters feel alive. You’ll move beyond bouncing balls and simple mechanics into full biped animation—starting with a solid walk cycle, then…
This advanced course is all about the craft of facial acting. You’ll animate a dialogue-driven performance, focusing on the subtle emotional beats that reveal what a character…
Learn the essential principles behind convincing 3D motion through focused exercises with bouncing balls, objects of different weights, simple character performances, overlap, walk cycles, and turns. The…
Rigging is a fundamental aspect of 3D animation that involves the process of preparing character or prop models for deformation and action. It is the role of…
An introduction to the principles of rigging, applied to simple objects and scenarios. In order for any 3D animation to happen, riggers (Character Technical Directors) take a…
This course teaches body rigging. Students build on the basic concepts and learn more complete full body rigging. Rigging controls like forward/inverse kinematics, twisting, and world/local constraints…
Students learn how to make characters move with more weight, solidity, and believability in action scenarios. They make a biped character move in two assignments, blending different…
In Character Performance, students explore how to make a character seem alive and how to craft a believable dialogue performance. Now that the students are familiar with…