Dynamic Animation with 2D and 3D Illustration
Starting 2D Animation: Animating Your Character 1
A course by Advntr Studio , Animation Studio
About the video: Starting 2D Animation: Animating Your Character 1
Overview
“After we have have our character rigged we can start to animate. Next, we'll reference our original animatic and animate our character's motion.”
In this video lesson Advntr Studio addresses the topic: Starting 2D Animation: Animating Your Character 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dynamic Animation with 2D and 3D Illustration. Learn to create original animations by combining different formats of digital illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“Starting 2D Animation: Animating Your Character Our character is ready to move. In this lesson, we'll animate him by keyframing, the position, rotation and paths of our shape layers. So here we are, we have Jill's beautiful rig here, so thank you, Jill. It's time to animate him. Like we said, we'll be keyframing the scale and the rotation of key elements to get the timing right, and then we're going to pretty much frame by frame animate the paths and other fine line details in order to make the movement more natural. So if we go back to our animatic, we export it, all of our 3D, out in Play...”
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Course summary for: Dynamic Animation with 2D and 3D Illustration
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Category
3D & Animation, Illustration -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D -
Areas
2D Animation, 3D, 3D Animation, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Advntr Studio
A course by Advntr Studio
After graduating from Parsons School of Design in New York City, Willie and Jill Russell started working freelance in their respective disciplines. Willie worked with motion and production studios, and Jill with marketing agencies. After collaborating on various projects, clients began requesting the married duo as a team. Thus, in 2014, Brooklyn-based Advntr Studio was born.
Willie has worked with renowned animation studios like Buck, Imaginary Forces, Perception, Ready Set Rocket, First Born, and more. Jill has freelanced for agencies such as AKQA, Havas Worldwide, HUGE, Method, and Loyal Kaspar. Together, they've collaborated for brands like Google, Dell, JP Morgan, Verizon, and Marvel Studios.
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