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Digital Tutors – Animation Fundamentals Animating Varying Weights

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Digital Tutors – Animation Fundamentals: Animating Varying Weights
English | Size: 599.3MB
Category: Tutorial


In this animation fundamentals course, we’ll tackle animating a beach ball, bowling ball and ping pong ball. These three animations will help you understand how you can use timing and spacing for creating varying weights.
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Digital Tutors – Animating a Walk Cycle in Blender

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Digital Tutors – Animating a Walk Cycle in Blender
English | Size: 936.8MB
Category: Tutorial


In this Blender tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a believable walk cycle in Blender.

We’ll begin by studying the primary extreme poses that make up every walk cycle. Then we’ll study video reference and pick apart some of the main traits you’ll find in a person’s walk in the real world.

Next, we’ll start our animation by creating the contact position. Once we have all the extreme poses established we’ll begin refining our animation utilizing Blender’s Graph Editor to adjust things like spacing, as well as make larger scale changes to our animation. Finally, we’ll explore some ways we can very easily add a lot of personality and character to our walk by adjusting our extreme poses. [Read more…]

SkillShare – Animating with Ease in After Effects

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SkillShare – Animating with Ease in After Effects
English | Size: 2.70 GB (2,894,882,122 bytes)
Category: Misc E-Learning


You’ve learned the basics. Keyframes are in your toolbox. Now it’s time to take the next step as an animator and unleash the power of After Effects’ graph editor!

This class is for anyone looking to take control of the look and feel of their motion design. Whether you’ve been using After Effects for years, or you’ve only just started learning the program, this class will be easy to follow along. I’ll teach you everything you need to know about easing in and out of of every bit of motion you create, and help you develop an aesthetic that will make your work stand apart from others’. [Read more…]

Animating Concept Storyboards Using Photoshop and After Effects

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Animating Concept Storyboards Using Photoshop and After Effects
English | Size: 1,07 GB
Category: Digital Tutors


Throughout these lessons we’ll go over the steps necessary to creating concept storyboards. There are times when static storyboards aren’t enough to articulate a scene to producers or directors. That’s when we have to take our work to the next level and animate the boards into simple animatics, so there nothing is left to wonder, and the vision is fully conveyed. The steps are simple, but very crucial, and we’ll be using both Photoshop and After Effects to complete our task. [Read more…]