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This Free Cartoon Animated Course is all about bringing your 2D characters to life with realistic and smooth facial expressions. The course describes different techniques of how to develop organic facial animation which gives your characters a touch of reality. It also teaches you how to develop animating characters in Cartoon Animator 4 for fast and efficient production. This free tutorial is a complete guide and describes the entire rigging process along with showing you how to prepare your character for animation and how to control facial features for expressive, believable performance instead of fake and robotic expressions.
Topic Covered:
- Course’s Overview: Know what this course is about and learn essential techniques about face animation.
- Project Files: Download and access all the ready-made project files which include templates, characters, designs and animation presets.
- Live Motion Face Capture: Learn how to perform live motion capture techniques for facial animation.
- Face Animation Drawing: Learn how to draw the face of your character and its eyes, mouth, eyebrows, etc for facial animation.
- Templates: Understand how Cartoon Animator’s template is used to organize facial parts, expressions and movements.
- Face Rotation: Learn how to prepare your character’s face for rotation and expressions and set angles for the facial movements.
- Sprites: Learn how you can layer multiple expressions in a single shot using Spite techniques.
- Emotional Expressions: Learn the process of expressions flowing effectively, from smiles to complex scenes.
- Speed: Know how to manage the speed of facial expressions and learn how to animate an entire scene efficiently.
Who Will Benefit?
- 2D Animators: Individuals who want to improve their character’s facial expressions and smoothly deliver an expressive face.
- YouTubers: YouTubers who want to add an animated character to their content and polish their animation skills.
- Designers: Character Designers who want to explore Cartoon Animator 4's advanced facial rigging features.
- Game Designers: All those who design and develop games and need 2D characters for their videos or games.
- Motion Graphic Designers: Individuals who want to expand their portfolio skills by working with animated 2D characters and Cartoon Animator 4.
Why To Choose This Course?
Free Animation Tutorial Guide walks you through the basics of facial rigging and conveys all advanced techniques. With each lesson being clearly explained, this course makes you learn how to set up your character’s face in a way that allows for fast, smooth, and natural-looking animations with Cartoon Animator 4. You’ll eventually discover how your characters feel alive and more realistic and how you can make the expressions of your characters completely believable. By the end of this course, you’ll master everything from Cartoon Animator 4’s face controllers and rotation options to live motion capture tools.
