Into Animation: Character Animation Fundamentals

What you will learn:

• By the end of this class, you will have gained a solid understanding of the 12 Principles of Animation and how to apply them to your own character.

What you will create:

• Once you are familiar with the 12 Principles of Animation, you will apply your freshly gained knowledge to the classic animation exercise, the bouncing ball.
• Building upon what we learn with the bouncing ball, our second exercise starts to introduce some character with a fun and simple, looping, bouncy bird animation.
• With these initial exercises complete, you will go on to create your first true character. A fun, animation of a character jump using the provided character.

Good to know:

• Throughout this class we shall be using the 3D software application Blender which can be downloaded for free from blender.org
• If you are not already familiar with Blender then I would highly recommend that you start out with my Blender Essentials for Animators class, which will teach you everything you need to follow along.
• This class is all about bringing characters to life so you will be working with a prebuilt character rig which can be found on the class Projects & Resources page. This class does not cover character modelling or rigging since these are complex topics which require in depth classes of their own.