Dynamic 2D Character Animation and Character Design Workflow

Learn how character design and character animation work together.

3.35 (20 reviews)
Udemy
platform
English
language
3D & Animation
category
instructor
Dynamic 2D Character Animation and Character Design Workflow
225
students
2 hours
content
Jul 2017
last update
$19.99
regular price

What you will learn

Work with timeline and Spriter free addition

Develop a wide range of animation classes and states

Develop advanced cell shading techniques and line art manipulation

Work with advanced techniques such as foreshortening and secondary animation

Why take this course?

In this course, I will teach you how to design and animate 2-D game characters in the simplest, clearest way possible. You will get an over the shoulder viewpoint of my actual workflow from start to finish. 
By the end of the series, you will be able to build modular game characters that allow for an unlimited amount of movement and poses needed for most game characters. You will learn how to create expressions and switch them out depending on what actions the characters were taking.

In this course, you will learn:

  • how to design a 2-D game character that works across all screens
  • how to apply color theory to your game character
  • how to build a modular 2-D game character 
  • how to navigate Spriter's timeline
  • how to work with my "Foundation First" approach to animation and design
  • and much more!

Always start with the end in mind!

In this course, you will not only learn how to animate 2-D game characters, but I will also teach you how to design characters for multiple screen sizes. Screens are now smaller than ever, and not everyone plays games on a TV, so is essential that we maximize the screen real estate so the main character stands out as they should.

We will also touch on simple color theory so we can create a color scheme for the character that works well with his environment. We will design the character in specific proportions that will allow for the most readability and clear understanding of what the characters capable of as soon as the player sees and interacts with the character. 

We will then move on to a basic walk cycle building off the momentum from the simple jump animation we just finished creating. The methodology I'll be using for these lessons is that we make a solid foundational animation, then overlay our secondary animation over the foundation, this ensures that the core animation is complete and we don't get bogged down with details too early.

Enroll today!

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Reviews

Vijaya
June 12, 2021
instructions were very fast. I could not see the various buttons the instructor handled for animating the picture.
Johann
July 14, 2020
The instructor might improve his way of explaning things by just elaborating a bit more about what he's actually doing. The content is really short and I felt I was in a hurry the very first videos.
Nicholas
March 26, 2020
This is rediculous, the videos are short, they explain next to nothing, there is no detail on character design let alone using illustrator. This thing is a joke.
sherman
January 7, 2019
I like in part, he preps you on the basic brush tools you will use in Illustrator for the start of the assignments. And a few tips of what he will be covering through the process, like creating cell shading and brush patterns. Looking forward to fine tuning my character designs techniques in these courses.
Patrick
December 19, 2018
This isn't a good course for a complete beginner to either Illustrator or digital animation. The instructor was not very clear about tools and shortcuts that he uses and it was difficult to follow everything as it seems a certain level of familiarity with the apps used beyond beginner level just starting out. This may be good for artists who have already used Adobe Illustrator before and have animated using similar techniques or apps such as Spriter and are just either shifting to another program or trying to learn to use something new. Am a little bit sorry I didn't have the time to finish this in time to get a refund but I got it on sale anyway. Anyway, still a good course but I hope it was a bit more engaging and informative.

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