Animating with Purpose: Movement and Expression

Unlock the Secrets to Emotional Animation with Expert Guidance

Ready to move beyond basic animation techniques? This course offers a deep dive into the art of conveying genuine emotion in your animated characters. Animator Claudio Salas reveals the underlying principles of human motion and physics to help you bring your characters to life with believable feelings.

Learn how to effectively express a range of emotions in your animation, transforming flat characters into relatable and engaging personalities. Whether you're animating a character experiencing joy, sadness, anger, or anything in between, this class provides the tools and techniques you need.

What you'll learn:

• Character Animation Process: From style selection and reference gathering to crafting dynamic and believable motion.
• Animating Happiness: Discover the specific physical characteristics that define joyful movement and how to apply them.
• After Effects Rigging & Import: Learn to import and rig your character design within Adobe After Effects.
• Understanding Motion Physics: Grasp the fundamental physics that govern movement in the real world and apply them to your animation.
• Animation "Magic Tricks": Unlock powerful techniques to influence your audience's perception and enhance emotional impact.
• Essential After Effects Plugins: Claudio demonstrates his go-to plugins, including Overlord, Motion2, and Labels, to streamline your workflow.

Course Highlights:

• Follow along with the animation of Noah, a happy character, or create your own original character.
• Claudio's clear and meditative teaching style makes complex concepts accessible to all skill levels.
• Suitable for both beginner animators with some After Effects experience and seasoned professionals seeking new approaches.

Prerequisites:

Some familiarity with Adobe After Effects is recommended. Experience with After Effects plugins is also helpful.

Looking for a beginner-friendly animation class? Check out Bee Grandinetti's course on creating a dance cycle in After Effects!