Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement
Kursus oleh Carlos "Zenzuke" AlbarránJuru gerak
Kursus oleh Carlos "Zenzuke" Albarrán, Juru gerak
Learn how to create an animated character, from the initial sketch to the final rigging in After Effects
Do you ever feel like the characters you draw are missing something? Like they're a bit stiff and lack that spark of energy? Maybe you've thought about bringing them to life with animation, but you're not sure where to start.
This is where motion graphics expert Carlos Albarrán, better known as Zenzuke, steps in. In this online course, he teaches you basic animation concepts and simple techniques to transform a sketch on paper into an animated friend who can walk, run, jump, and even change facial expressions.
By the end, you'll have a digital puppet that you can easily animate with hundreds of poses and movements.
Apa yang akan Anda pelajari dalam kursus daring ini?
1 pelajaran & 1 unduhan
Give color and prepare the photoshop
1 menit, 1 detik
Duik
1 menit, 1 detik
After Effects is your friend too
1 menit, 1 detik
The puppet pin
1 menit, 1 detik
The extremities
1 menit, 1 detik
Spinal column
1 menit, 1 detik
Apa yang termasuk dalam kursus ini?
Begin by meeting your teacher, Zenzuke. He gives you a brief overview of the course, the tools you need, and what you can expect to learn.
Next, he shows you how to sketch your character and create thumbnails with different poses for the animation phase. Transfer the sketch to Photoshop and finish your character design before moving on to After Effects.
Now it's time to turn your stiff cutout into a fully flexible 3D friend. Learn how to animate the individual body parts step by step, starting with the limbs, followed by the torso, and finally the head. Then see how to piece them together into a working body and make your character walk without looking like a robot.
Finally, add a background to give your friend some context. Zenzuke wraps up the course by introducing you to some advanced concepts for more expressive faces, including smiles, scowls, blinking, and looks of surprise.
Now you know how to bring any character to life piece by piece, like a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein.
Perangkat lunak & alat yang direkomendasikan untuk kursus ini
Apa proyek kursus ini?
Create an animated character from sketch to rigging—the set of controls that allow our puppet to take on different poses—using a free set of After Effects extras and tricks.
Proyek oleh mahasiswa kursus
Untuk siapa kursus daring ini?
Anyone who likes drawing and is interested in learning about character animation, as well as artists with experience in character creation who want to take their work to the next level. This course is also great for anyone who's already familiar with After Effects and wants to learn new tricks to get the most out of the program.
Persyaratan dan bahan
A working knowledge of Photoshop and basic notions of drawing are recommended to get the most out of this course.
As for materials, you need a pencil, a digital camera or a smartphone (if you decide to sketch your character on paper), a graphics tablet for color in Photoshop (your teacher uses a Wacom tablet), and access to Adobe Photoshop and After Effects (Zenzuke uses version 5.5 throughout the course).
Ulasan
- 3 bulan yang lalu
Excelente!
- 5 bulan yang lalu
Excelente!
- 6 bulan yang lalu
Excelente !
- 1 tahun yang lalu
el profesor explica muy bien y da muchos trucos que sirven no solo para este si no para casi todos los proyectos que hare en after effects
- 1 tahun yang lalu
O professor é ótimo, por ter noções de fundamentos da animação deu ótimas dicas e truques para deixar os movimentos mais fluidos e plásticos, mesmo não sendo uma técnica de animação frame-a-frame. O único problema do curso, é que ele está bem desatualizado, os aplicativos utilizados no curso mudaram bastante, dificultando a identificação das ferramentas usadas. Por isso acho que vale a pena dar uma atualizada no curso.
Isi
- U 1
From pencil to After Effects
- Introduction
- The sketch
- Give color and prepare the photoshop
- Duik
- After Effects is your friend too
- U 2
Be Dr. Frankenstein
- The puppet pin
- The extremities
- Spinal column
- Head
- All together now
- U 3
Get up and go!
- Animate in After Effects
- Making the animation of our friend
- The way is made by walking
- Share our friend with the world
- U 4
It is not the end, it is the beginning
- Put our friend in a background
- More advanced extras
- FP
Proyek akhir
- Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement
Apa yang diharapkan dari kursus Domestika
Belajar dengan kecepatan Anda sendiri
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Bertemu dengan guru ahli
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Berbagi pengetahuan dan ide
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Tanya Jawab Umum
You’ll learn how to create, digitize, color, and animate 2D characters from the initial sketch all the way through to the final animation, using Photoshop for design and After Effects for rigging and animating.
This course is aimed at intermediate users but is also accessible to beginners with basic knowledge of Photoshop and After Effects.
You’ll need access to Photoshop and After Effects, and a graphics tablet is optional. Paper and pencil are also recommended for initial sketches.
You should export your character from Photoshop in layers, then import it as a PSD file into After Effects, making sure to keep layers separate to make animation easier.
Yes, you’ll learn how to create basic rigs using tools like Puppet Pin and scripts like Duik to control your character’s movements in After Effects.
The course walks you through animating a walk cycle step-by-step, adjusting limb positions and applying animation principles for natural movement.
You’ll learn to create thumbnails, traditional sketches, standard poses like the A-pose and T-pose, and how to refine proportions and details to make animation smoother.