LEARN 3D ANIMATION : Create Credible & Unique Animations

The Basics + Basic & Advanced Body mechanics + Pantomime + Create unique personalities + Blender Guide.

4.40 (139 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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LEARN 3D ANIMATION : Create Credible & Unique Animations
1,197
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8.5 hours
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Apr 2023
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$79.99
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What you will learn

The principles of 3D Animation.

The "Basics" of animation with step-by-step demonstrations

How to make physically credible animations (Body Mechanics + Advanced body mechanics)

How to animate different body parts correctly

How to record good and original references, and how to get into the skin of your character.

How to create entertaining and special animations

The 5 stages to create a professional animation (Reference / Blocking / Blocking + / Splines / Polishing)

How to make your characters to think for themselves, have a unique personality, and look like they are really alive.

Technical guides of everything you need to know to animate in Blender (Also ideal for Maya animators who want to learn this increasingly popular animation software)

Access to a private group of 3D animators to receive feedback and watch the animations of your classmates

Why take this course?

Hi!

Would you like to learn 3D animation, and even end up animating your favorite characters in the best animation studios?

Then this course is perfect for you, you don't need to know absolutely anything about animation, not even knowing how to draw, just a computer and your desire to learn.

We will start with the basic principles of animation, and you will learn step by step everything you need to know to make credible and entertaining animations

The classes are clear, specific, and very didactic, full of examples from both real life and professional animations;

You will also have demonstrations and exercises specially designed to assimilate new concepts and thus facilitate and accelerate your learning process, teaching you the importance of paying close attention to small details.


The course covers everything from how to animate a bouncing ball, through the mechanics of the character, to creating pantomime animations, with original, entertaining and unique characters.


  1. The "basics" of animation: Timing and spacing, how to start and finish movements, inertia and settlement, overlap, visual arcs, squash and stretch and anticipation + step-by-step demonstrations of how to animate a bouncing ball, a pendulum and a simple character with a tail.

  2. The staging: Intro to staging, the point of attention, the cameras and the camera cuts, the camera framing, and the camera angles

  3. How to create good poses: The origin of force, perspective and orientation, the silhouette, avoiding symmetry, the line of action, the golden poses, balance, weight and strength, and moving hold.

  4. How to animate the different parts of the body: hips, torso, feet, knees, shoulders, head and neck, hands, elbows and arms, and the difference between IK vs FK

  5. The 5 stages of animation: Reference, blocking, blocking +, splines and polishing

  6. How to create a character with its own personality: The 7 questions, the personality curve, primary and secondary action, the peculiarities, and how to animate a character that thinks for himself

  7. Tips to take your animation to the next level: Exaggeration, analyze timing, repetition, cheating, and how to create more appeal.

  8. Blender technical guide to animate like a pro: Opening Blender for the first time, how to configure blender to animate more easily and quickly, the viewports, the timeline, the graph editor, the outliner, the property editor, the breakdowner, how to light your scene, how to use the X-Pose picker, how to create constrains, how to insert audio, and how to prepare your scene to start animating

  9. + Access to discord server to receive feedback and see the animations of your colleagues


At the end of the course:

You will have the ability to animate characters in a credible way so that they have their own personalities, both in action scenes and in pantomime, thus creating unique animations that engage the audience

(Although the course exercise demonstrations are done in Blender, if you have knowledge of MAYA or another animation program you can easily follow it, since the course does not focus on teaching Blender, but the ART of animation)


One of the things (among many others :D ) that makes this course magnificent, is that you will learn from professional animations and unique films, therefore learning, from the best in the industry!.


(Videos / shorts / animations / movies used in the course to explain animation concepts):

Caminandes 1: Llama drama

Caminandes 2: Gran Dillama

Caminandes 3: LLamigos

Big Buck Bunny

Half Glass

Sintel

Charade-1963

InThePark (Charles Chaplin)

The-Vagabond (Charles Chaplin)

Popeye Brideand Gloom

Popeye for President

Popeye AliBaba

Private Eye Popeye

Woody woodpecker pantry panic

BUGS BUNNY - ALL THIS AND RABBIT STEW

Abraham lincoln

+ My own animations & references

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Reviews

Lydia
May 19, 2023
I think he reLl take its time to to teach. Talking about spacing, framing, acceleration in and out I think the teacher did a good job and took the time to ensure you get the concept.
SuyoG
March 5, 2023
It's nice to see u have shown a lot of different perspective to show Timing & Spacing, Its fun to learn here
Viktoriia
December 15, 2022
Very interesting and useful. And I am very grateful for feedbacks on assignments, because they help to see what i missed.
Aman
August 21, 2022
Very amateur delivery and execution. The instructor doesn't explain anything properly and rushes through everything.
Steven
January 30, 2021
Fantastic course, by far the best animation course on Udemy. great examples on every aspect from an absolute fantastic animator. Thank you for this wonderful course. Would recommend to everyone
Paul
January 10, 2021
I find it incomprehensible that for this course you have to purchase an extra addon and a rig without clear communication in advance. In addition, many things are unclearly explained and others are overly repeated to the point of being annoying. This David does have an understanding of animation but none of teaching. Despite the price of the course, I feel quite deceived. I've been a 3d professional for 30 years who recently switched from 3ds max to Blender and am amazed at the lack of teaching skills.
Paul
December 30, 2020
The tutor has gone to great lengths to demonstrate the rules of animation with a lot of detailed explanation and examples - including breakdowns of famous animations. Still very early days on the course, but I'm optimistic about learning everything I should need to know about animation here. (Updates to come later).
N
October 20, 2020
Although I studied at an animation school - I really love this course. It helps me get to terms with blender's animation system - It covers all you need to get started and make great animations!
Michael
October 8, 2020
The instructor is playing... and cheating too! I mean, can't we pay for a course and have it taught us? He removed three modules including a module I am currently on and tells me it's probably Udemy software problem while directing me to his Youtube page to watch a three minute summary of it and pay money to go get resources elsewhere. Smh
Carlos
September 25, 2020
Un gran curso para todo aquel que quiera iniciarse en la animación. Explica todo, desde los principios de animación a tener en cuenta hasta los últimos arreglos que se le pueden hacer a tu animación. Todas las explicaciones, o las más grandes al menos, tienen una tarea para que puedas llevar a cabo la teoría aprendida. Un gran curso a un precio bastante bajo para la calidad que presenta.

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