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Learning 2D Animation Principles

With Dermot O' Connor Liked by 628 users
Duration: 2h 25m Skill level: Beginner Released: 4/11/2014

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Course details

Bring a cast of characters to life. By following the basics principles of animation, you can build characters that interact naturally with their environments, convey realistic emotion, and talk and walk convincingly. In this course, Dermot O' Connor shows how to design a solid character and stage and storyboard your animation before you begin. He'll examine principles like anticipation and squash and stretch, which provide characters with a sense of weight and flexibility, and show you how to animate walk cycles and dialogue. Finally, learn how to thumbnail scenes from start to finish, so you can sketch out the action before you commit to fully rendering it.

These lessons are designed with Flash in mind, but work just as well with any other 2D animation program.

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    Briana Urbina-Ochoa

    Disaster Prevention Specialist at DoorDash

    5/5 October 26, 2023
    I am a beginner but it is easy to follow and very inspirational. He makes me feel like I can create anything and I am ready to start creating but I will finish this lesson to ensure I have all the ideas I can get.
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