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DIY Animation for Beginners
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Discover how to bring animated stories to life by exploring professional animation tools using Adobe Creative Cloud and applying those tools to assemble your own video story.
What you can learn.
- Learn animation terminology
- Practice using professional animation tools
- Explore the workflow used by professional animators
- Assemble a video story
About this course:
You have ideas for amazing animated stories, but how do you make them come to life? In this course, you learn the step-by-step process of creating your first animation, and explore the tools professional animators use on TV shows such as The Simpsons, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Tooning Out the News. Topics include rigging your characters, creating walk cycles, and crafting lip sync animation, as well as using other tools in Adobe Creative Cloud, to assemble a video story.Contact Us
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