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Science of Character Animation (Lessons 1-6)

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Release date:2019

Author:Markus Magnusson

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Get as much life as possible out of your 2d characters with this all-encompassing course into the fascinating world of Character Animation. Markus will cover tonnes of classical animation and character design principles. He will also share his unique techniques gained throughout his long experience of a professional animator and motion graphics designer.

The Struggle is real
Characters are too complicated
A character is a complex system of limbs, body and other parts. And it’s extremely hard to handle all of this at once. Usually you don’t know what to animate first, what kind of dependencies exist between all of the body parts, each step of the animation process just confuses you even more.

But we will give all the necessary knowledge to understand what to start with, what to do next and even where and when you should stop in animating characters.

Something is wrong with my character’s moves
Your character is moving like he has just run away from hospital long before making a complete recovery? Not satisfied with the result and can’t understand why?

In this course you will learn all the essential fundamentals that will allow you to heal your characters from past diseases and let them enjoy this beautiful life you’ve just brought them into!

How to prepare illustration for animation?
You have just drawn the character, imported it to After Effects and here we go… Splitting it into new layers again and again, going back to illustrator and sorting out it in a new way. OMG, is there any rule of thumb?

Sure, there are a bunch of principles you should know and apply while preparing your character for animation. You will be taught all of them.

My characters don’t look awesome
Decided to do a real cool shot for your portfolio but even static characters already don’t look good?

Keep calm, this course will show you not only how to organize illustrator layers but also how to design characters so that they are easier to animate and are still as charismatic as you want them to be.

Rig doesn’t work as I planned it to
Alright, you imported the character to After Effects, and the first thing you decided to do is to rig the limbs. But when you started animating you realized that this rig doesn’t work for your particular case and it’s time to redo it all over again.

This course also touches upon the topic of rigging. So, you will definitely know what exactly, at which stage and in what way should be rigged.

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74 Comments

  1. Hey guys, thanks a lot for this. just one question: are this the full lessons? only 6?

    Keep it coming with: “motions design school” and “school of motion” stufff plz

    all the best

    • Each lesson is being released weekly so we’ll the course won’t even be completely available until December

      • Hi strwberry?
        Thank you gus so much for the course. Its 6 lessons, you stated above the rest course will be uploaded until Dec and its dec now but didnt find any update.? please reply that when will all course be updated

          • The mid?! You mean 15 dec….? Its 26 now…
            Please dont play games just do upload it.
            Advanced thanks

          • Take it easy, hot guy. If you in really hurry to get this course – go ahead and buy it from Motion Design School.
            Did you ever support this project by donating a penny to be able to talk in this manner?
            What I’m doing here is because I decided to do it, I do it when I have time and passion.
            Take this as a breath of fresh (free) air and do not forget to pay back at least with respectful comments/requests/etc.
            I’ve spent 5 minutes to write this instead of uploading one more course. It was a complete mind f..ck!

  2. dude, I Can’t find this on the site.
    if available it would be nice!

    https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Simple-Character-Lip-Sync/776870522

    https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Character-Animation-Creating-Authentic-Facial-Expressions-in-Adobe-After-Effects/678578570

  3. Thanks for that !
    I realy appreciate if you upload Expression Trip course, and thanks for everthing man, you are realy helpping me and changing my carrer !

  4. Thank you ????.
    Can we have the school of motion courses the new stuff like the updated courses. And Illustration for motion and explainer camp and photoshop + Illustrator unleashed that would be great!!
    Thank you so much

  5. First of all,Thank you very much!!!
    But there is a problem with the Character Tool script. there is a problem with all the last file 🙁

    • 7-Zip

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      Character Tool.jsxbin
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      Speed: Processed: Compressed size:
      5189 К 107 MB/s 5189 К 2731 К

      Folders: 3 Files: 5
      Size: 5313839 bytes (5189 KiB)
      There are no errors

  6. hey, thank you very much for this one!
    really appreciate it.

    By the way, if you could please add these in your collection
    https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/category/13-3d-animation

    thanks in advance 🙂

  7. Please upload these courses:
    https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Vector-Illustration-Drawing-with-the-Pen-Tool/1317737034?via=logged-in-home-your-classes
    https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Digital-Illustration-Streamlining-with-Adobe-Tools/141834802?via=logged-in-home-your-classes
    https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Fun-With-Colour-5-Exercises-for-Picking-Unique-Colour-Palettes/934433486?via=logged-in-home-your-classes
    thank you so much!

  8. Hi strawberry,
    Pleasee upload Hand Drawn Fx in Toon Boom course by Motion Design School
    https://motiondesign.school/products/hand-drawn-fx-in-toon-boom
    Thank you so muchhh <3

  9. Hey Strawberry,

    Could you please upload the rest of this course?

    I was also wondering if you might be able to upload this course:
    https://greyscalegorilla.com/downloads/guide-to-redshift/

  10. Please upload Hand Drawn Fx in Toon Boom course by Motion Design School
    https://motiondesign.school/products/hand-drawn-fx-in-toon-boom

  11. Hi Dude, Thanks a lot! Could you up this course please? 😀

    https://motiondesign.school/products/logo-animation-in-after-effects

  12. Pls upload:
    1. The 10 Principles of Motion Design
    2. Concept before animation
    3. Focusing on Animation
    from: https://www.learnsquared.com/

  13. Hey guys plz be respectful with the site´s owner and administrator. If someone wants a course or something ask politely!!. It´s cringy seeing people demand things to the site´s owner like it´s his/her obligation to do as people tell him, when It´s clearly not. I´m sure that whoever is maintaining this site is doing it with the best intentions in mind for everyone and be happy that we are getting all of this content.

  14. Hi hi Strawberry!

    Please can you get this for us? 🙂
    https://www.wattsatelier.com/shop/animal-portraits-in-oil-with-jeffrey-r-watts/

    It would mean the world to me.

    Thank you for everything you do. You’re amazing!

  15. Hi Strawberry, thank you so much for these courses! Can you also get this course: https://motiondesign.school/courses/fundamentals-on-after-effects/

  16. Hi Strawberry! Thank you so much for all the educational content you’ve uploaded. This means a lot to me.
    By any chance, can you upload the rest of the course. Any thanks to you is less.
    And if you could arrange https://www.benmarriott.com/ this course “Master Motion Design with Ben Marriott”
    Lots of Love

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