2D Character Animation with George Maestri

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2D Character Animation with George Maestri
Duration: 5hr 50m | Video: h264, yuv420p, 960x600 30fps | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 2ch | 597 MB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Hi! I am George Maestri and welcome to 2D Character Animation. Before an animator touches a computer, they should know the basic principles of animation, how characters move, how they walk and how they talk. In this course, I will show you how to design and create characters for animation starting with pencil and paper and then in the computer.

I will show you how to make joints that work and create multiple parts for replacement animation. After that we will look at Newton's laws of motion and how those laws create the principles of animation such as Squash and Stretch, Overlap and Follow-through and also show you how to get a character walking and running.

Then we will move on to dialogue animation, including how to read soundtracks, rules for assigning mouth shapes and the basics of acting to dialogue. We will use both Flash and After Effects for creating character walks and lip sync animation in each of those applications. So, if you're ready, let's get started with 2D Character Animation.

Topics include:

Creating character joints that really work
Building with the Puppet tool in After Effects
Understanding internal versus external forces in movement
Reading tracks and assigning mouth shapes for dialogue
Setting up a scene in both After Effects and Flash

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