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In this course, you will :
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Design Simple Characters
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Do Character Animation, expressing with body language
Syllabus :
1. Character Emotion
- Emotional Expression And Body Language
- Character Relationships
- Relationship Examples
2. Character Design
- Designing Characters With Geometric Shapes
- Body Language From Geometric Shapes
- Expressing With The Mouth
- Working With References
- Designing Simple Characters
- Klay Tutorials
3. Planning a Project
- Planning Your Animation With a Storyboard
- Hiring Voice Talent
- Download the Project Files
- Preparing for the Animatic
- Editing The Animatic
- Finished Animatic for "Who Is Better"
4. Introduction to Rigging Tutorials
- Introduction to Rigging Tutorials
- Getting Adobe After Effects (For those who don't have it yet)
- New Composition in After Effects (For absolute Beginners)
- Creating the Body for Simple (The circle)
- Creating Arms and Legs for Simple
5. Rigging The Character
- Automation Using Expressions
- Getting Duik Plug in and Project Files for the Tutorials
- Setting Forward Kinematics
- Setting Inverse Kinematics
- Rigging the Right Arm and Legs
6. Prepearing Controllers
- Creating and Aligning Controllers
- Connecting the Body with Controllers
- Cleaning the Timeline
7. Working with the Mouth
- Mouth Expression Research
- Drawing The Mouth Variations
- Prepare Mouth for Emotional Lip-Sync
- Animating the First Two Mouths for the Lip Sync
- Animating the rest of the Mouths
- Preparing the Mouth with Expression Controls
- Head Turn Effect
- Activating the Flip Switch to rotate the Mouth
8. Emotional Lip Sync
- Emotional Auto Lip-Sync using Expressions
- Adding Dialogue to test Auto Lip Sync
- Wiggly Body for Maniac Effects
- Simple Shading
9. Technical Tips to Know Before Animating
- Introduction to Animation Tutorials
- Getting EASE AND WIZZ
- Tips on Changing the Elbow/Knee Angles
- Refining the Lip Sync
- Basic Frame Units in Animations at 24 fps
- Basic Frame Units for Reaction Movements
- Applying the 5 to 10 frame rule
- Basic Frame Units for Aggressive Movements
10. Animation Tutorials
- Preparing the Timeline for the Posing
- Adding two more markers
- Posing the 1st Keyframe: "Like Me"
- Posing the 2nd Keyframe: Body, Hand and Mouth
- Posing the 2nd Keyframe: Left Hand and Hips
- Posing the 2nd Keyframe: Correcting the Left Leg
- Posing the 3rd Keyframe
- Adding Markers for Anticipation and Aftermath
- Animating the Anticipation of the 1st Pose
- Animating the Aftermath of the 1st Pose
- Applying Ease and Wizz
- Animating the Anticipation of the 2nd Pose
- Fixing the Left Leg
- Fixing the Right Arm
- Animating the Anticipation of the 3rd Pose
- Fixing the Right Hand Drop
- Fixing the Left Leg for Final Position
11. Wrapping Up The Course
- Closing thoughts on Body Language Animation
- Prepare Composition for Rendering
- Rendering for YouTube in After Effects
- Getting Adobe Media Encoder
