Motion Practice with Ben Marriott

We're covering the basics of frame-by-frame animation using Adobe Animate & integrating that with After Effects. We start to cover some of the basic principles of animation and useful techniques to elevate your animations to the next level.

• Frame rate
• Onion skins
• Timing
• Roughs
  
• Anticipation
  
• Overshoot
  
• Cleanup in Animate
  
• Exporting as swf
  
• Cleanup in AE with shape layers
  
• Looping
  
• Adding textures
  
• Imitating a frame-by-frame look in AE
  

A walk and run cycle are staples of animation. They are so much quicker to make frame-by-frame and you can know if it is going to be effective after drawing only 2 frames. We're going to experiment with pushing your breakdown poses to create a completely different mood.

• Walk cycles
  
• Run cycles
  
• Follow through and overlapping action
  
  

Adding frame-by-frame effects can be one of the best ways to add interesting elements to your After Effects workflow. Here we break down the wave principle, which you can apply to hair, clothes, limbs and practically anything in motion to give it more life. Then use it to add smoke and flame effects to our animation.

• The wave principle
  
• Animating Smoke
  
• Animating a flame
  
  

Making flat 2D shapes appear 3D can be incredibly challenging. We'll be breaking down the process and techniques to sell a believable 3D form and learn how to solve common challenges.

• Solid drawing
  

• Adapting a 2D design into a 3D form
  
• The power of Time remapping
  
• Deforming and warping in After Effects
  
• Smear frames
  

The most appealing aspect of animation is a smooth transforming animation.

Using all the skills learned in this course we're going to apply them to complex animation, breaking it down into small manageable parts and building on each one.

• Planning for complex motion
  
• Squash and stretch
  
• Cleaning up complex forms in After Effects
  

In the final lesson, we are going to compile all the animations we have done during the course into one beautiful composition. We will adjust the general dynamics, add animated textures and create a perfect loop.

This course is created for people who already have some experience of working in After Effects. If you're a total After Effects beginner we recommend to complete our After Effects Fundamentals course first.

Nope, the course is built for beginners.

In the first lesson we're covering the basics of frame-by-frame animation using Adobe Animate & integrating that with After Effects. We start to cover some of the basic principles of animation and useful techniques to elevate your animations to the next level.

You can find After Effects here: https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects.html. It will be enough to work with the trial version for some time, but we highly recommend buying a license.

You can find Adobe Animate here: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/. It will be enough to work with the trial version for some time, but we highly recommend buying a license.

Windows

• Intel® Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II processor; 64-bit support required
• Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. See the CS6 FAQ for more information about Windows 8 support.*
• 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
• 3 GB of available hard-disk space; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices

MacOS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
• macOS v10.6.8 or higher
• 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
• 4 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

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Yes, all the artwork that you create on the course belongs to you. You can share and tweet and dribbble whatever animation you create. We would be grateful if you mention our school while sharing, we have @motiondesignschool accounts almost on every network.

With enough practice, you will receive just enough knowledge to reach a new level and outperform your competitors. You will get a chance to get more clients since your character animations will become absolutely outstanding. Most of all, you will be able to charge far more than you are doing now.

It usually takes at least 8 hours of doing practice and watching lessons per week for 2 months for a student to get to the final stage. We do recommend to spend as much time as possible since you are gaining new skills here, it's never an easy journey.

This course has subtitles, which makes the content easier for understanding and lets you check the unknown words in the dictionary, if needed.