How to Make a Professional 2D Animation for a Promo Video

Create an animation in After Effects with Cinema 4D and Illustrator in a real world project step by step from scratch.

4.10 (39 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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3D & Animation

What you will learn

Approach and animate a professional promotional 2D animated video for a client according to a provided script and how to use Adobe After Effects along with vector assets and a 3D model to create the final motion graphics piece.

Apply best practices to deal with big animation projects using After Effects while being organized at the same time.

Organize vector assets for animations and basic rigging inside After Effects

Prepare a 3D model in Cinema 4D to use in your 2D animations.

How to maintain vector assets looking sharp when scaling them at any size inside after effects.

Create good looking animations using tips and scripts without having a deep knowledge of animating with the graph editor.

Understand the real work (tweaking keyframes and refining the animations) behind a complex motion graphics piece like this.

Why take this course?

In this course I will take you step by step along the process of creating an animated promo for a project in a real world scenario for a client from scratch. If you are interested in learn how to create a professional, good looking and fluid animation for a promotional video for a client request or maybe your own portfolio, or even if you are planing to increase your animation skills based on a real life project then this course is for you!

This course will be detailed and it will cover lots of techniques to create the final piece.

I won't hide you nothing from the real work behind the whole process, you will see and understand the entire process to follow along!

We will begin from scratch to teach you how:

Analize the provided script to create transitions from it
Transform the script into sketches
Thinking in transitions for the animation
Set a color palette and how to use it inside AE
Create a Common media folder to organize assets (ninja tip)
Vectorize Assets using illustrator (not an illustrator course, but an overview)
Prepare your assets for animations
Importing and organizing assets into After Effects
Using cinema 4D to create cartoon sketch style
Integrating Cinema 4D with AE using Cineware to mix 3D and 2D
Animating in sync with the voice over and more!

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Reviews

Paul

December 10, 2019

An intermediate course which requires some essential plugins which you'll use in real life projects. Lots of tips in workflow. It's definitely worth spending a day or two and completing all exercises.

Ben

May 23, 2018

some of the starting episodes were a little bit wasteful/unnecessary. The content is getting better but I get the feeling that it is not thorough enough so far, we shall see if it changes.

Shaysh

February 14, 2017

Amazing course! and great content, finally we getting all the bells and whistles ! :D can learn heaps from this mate :)

María

January 17, 2017

No está mal. Bien organizado y encontré un par de tips útiles. Pero esperaba que fuera más revelador para mí y en alguna partes yo lo hubiera hecho más sencillo. Pero está bien.

Sanduni

November 6, 2016

A perfect course to start learning on how to create an explainer video. Covered many many essential techniques in a short time and easy to understand the course. Well prepared, excellent course.

Rob

March 2, 2016

Very informative once all the basic stuff is covered. Particularly good at illustrating the workflow between Cinema4D and After Effects.

Sourabh

December 16, 2015

The course is very well made and very comprehensive. Even if you are a novice like me, you should be able to make a promo video by the end of this course. Very practical.

Rob

December 14, 2015

This course goes over a lot of detail in the animation process, everything from organization of graphics to integration of characters to adding transitions. To go along with the tutorials be ready to have access to After Effects and be willing to spend a little money on scripts, but it's worth it. A little slow at times, but the course is great for those looking for a career in motion graphics/2d animation.

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