Motion Hero | Motion Design Course
Have you ever asked yourself why some seemingly simple videos have such astonishing animations, while some other ones are a pain to watch?
That’s because many beginner animators aren’t familiar with the principles of animation or animation theory in general, they don’t know what aspects they should focus on to improve their work, why those are important, and how they should implement such things in their animations. In this course, we will dive into the depths of After effects. you will learn everything from the most basic animation techniques to the most advanced ones practically, so you can achieve astounding results. What’s more, our journey will not end until I see you becoming a pro motion designer.
So, this course is suitable for both beginners and veterans.
What will You learn in the Motion Hero course?
Introduction of After Effects
In the first week of this course, we'll cover the basics of After Effects. We start to cover some of the main and essential panels of After Effects.
Animation Tools
We will go through the most important things in animation. We will know what factors make an animation good or bad.
Basic Animation
In week 2, to better understand the timing, spacing, anticipation, follow through and overlapping that are some of the most important principles of animation we’ll do a couple of exercises.
12 principles of animations
You’ll learn about the 12 principles of animations and how to use them in motion graphics clips, because many motion designers ignore them and it makes them not have a good understanding of movement and animation and finally they cannot create attractive animation.
Text Animation
This week, you will know about another type of layer which is text layers, you will learn the special method of animating texts, and you will understand text selectors, how to work with them, and how to properly save presets for the future.
Lettering Animation
You’ll learn different ways to make a writing effect for the letters, and how to make them more attractive by adding splashes and bouncy animation. In that process, we're building this scene using what we've learned and pulled out some advanced techniques.
Shape Animation
We will study Shape layers and understand what shape modifiers are, what possibilities for animation they figure out, how to use them to make beautiful animations and much more.
Logo Animation
This week you’ll learn the types of logo animations, methods and rules of making them, and also how to give them sense.
Loop Animation
We get to know how to make seamless endless and cycles loops and learn what principles we should follow to create a standard loop animation and then we put these principles into use to make a smooth loop animation.
Morph Animation
This week is keyframe magic. You'll learn how to morph 3 different objects into one another and what thought process goes into every keyframe to make the whole scene come together.
Character Rigging
This week you’ll learn character rigging and the secrets of creating a seamless auto-walk cycle. And how to prepare characters for rigging. We're using the free plugin Duik-Bassel for rigging, so no extra expense there.
Character Animation
This week you’ll learn how to animate characters and how to use references and also you’ll get acquainted with different walking and running poses and the secrets of creating a seamless them.
Head Rig & facial Animation
You'll understand the most popular techniques to create a character's facial rig and how to turn the head with the help of Joysticks 'n sliders. then we will consider a very important thing that most animator beginners usually ignore, head animation and emotions!
Level Format Weeks Duration Required Software Language
Basic Online 14 14+h After Effects English
Basic Online 14 14+h After Effects English
Advanced
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