Character Animation: Walk Cycles in Adobe After Effects CC

Character Animation: Walk Cycles in Adobe After Effects CC, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 3.75, with 90 lectures, based on 374 reviews, and has 24523 subscribers.

You will learn about How to create 2D Character Animation Walk Cycles How to create secondary animation for walk cycles. How to rigg character for a perfect walk cycle. How to Animate several most common walk cycles. How to Animate the Double Bounce Cycle, How to Animate the Pompous Walk Cycle, How to Animate the Sad/Sleepy Walk Cycle, How to Animate the Sneaky Walk Cycle, How to use a one option free plugin to Create Limbs and more. This course is ideal for individuals who are Expand your Motion Graphics Design by Learning How to animate the most common Walk Cycles. or Want to learn Walk Cycles 2D Character animation in After Effects or Want to understand, use and master the Concept of Walk Cycles. or Aspiring to become animators and practice with 2D Walk Cycle or Do not take this course if you have no idea what's Adobe After Effects CC It is particularly useful for Expand your Motion Graphics Design by Learning How to animate the most common Walk Cycles. or Want to learn Walk Cycles 2D Character animation in After Effects or Want to understand, use and master the Concept of Walk Cycles. or Aspiring to become animators and practice with 2D Walk Cycle or Do not take this course if you have no idea what's Adobe After Effects CC.

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Summary

Title: Character Animation: Walk Cycles in Adobe After Effects CC

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 3.75

Number of Lectures: 90

Number of Published Lectures: 80

Number of Curriculum Items: 90

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 80

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to create 2D Character Animation Walk Cycles
How to create secondary animation for walk cycles.
How to rigg character for a perfect walk cycle.
How to Animate several most common walk cycles.
How to Animate the Double Bounce Cycle,
How to Animate the Pompous Walk Cycle,
How to Animate the Sad/Sleepy Walk Cycle,
How to Animate the Sneaky Walk Cycle,
How to use a one option free plugin to Create Limbs and more.

Who Should Attend

Expand your Motion Graphics Design by Learning How to animate the most common Walk Cycles.
Want to learn Walk Cycles 2D Character animation in After Effects
Want to understand, use and master the Concept of Walk Cycles.
Aspiring to become animators and practice with 2D Walk Cycle
Do not take this course if you have no idea what's Adobe After Effects CC

Target Audiences

Expand your Motion Graphics Design by Learning How to animate the most common Walk Cycles.
Want to learn Walk Cycles 2D Character animation in After Effects
Want to understand, use and master the Concept of Walk Cycles.
Aspiring to become animators and practice with 2D Walk Cycle
Do not take this course if you have no idea what's Adobe After Effects CC

Welcome to Walk Cycles in Adobe After Effects.

From the Author of the Bestselling and Highest Rated Complete After Effects CC Course.

When you’re committed to upgrading your skills in Motion Graphics you’ll need to learn and master the concepts and techniques to create various walk cycles.

You will learn how to create walk cycles and I will give you lots of tips on how to animate the different elements and the secondary animations.

We will cover several walk cycles from the classic or basic walk to double bounce and run cycles. We will also go through the concept behind each walk cycle. It will give you a full understanding and working knowledge to achieve any other walk you can think about.

This course does not use any complicated plugin such as Duik.

The walk cycles that we will cover:

1. Fun Walk Cycle animation
This is a special animation where we’ll animate bezier paths to create the walk cycle. I find it important to start with path animation because there are after effects default.

2. Basic/Classic Walk Cycle

With a simple character design, we will cover all the rules and working methods that we will use for any other work cycle later.

3. Run Cycle

We will cover how to create the run cycle animation. The run cycle is short and energetic. It’s a lots of fun to create this cycle. It’s a fast wide walk cycle of just half second.

4. The Sad Walk Cycle

It’s a simple walk cycle with a slow animation for two seconds and small steps. We will start by animating meeting the shoes and other elements will follow the rhythm. For this walk and especially this character, we are going to animate the hands using certain effects.

5. Sleepy/Sad Walk Cycle animation
I’ll be suggesting this as an assignment: A sad sleepy walk for a banana character. You might try your hand to recreate the animation and maybe give it more personality.

6. Double Bounce Walk Cycle animation
…The double bounce is a special walk cycle where the character Bounces twice for every step. It’s actually not difficult to achieve this walk cycle if you set and follow the markers at the right time.

7. Sneak walk Cycle animation
This is our three second long sneak walk animation. It’s actually pretty interesting and not so hard to achieve. There are couple of animation principles you need to take care of.

8. Proud/Pompous Cycle animation
He his proud with chest and head up and forward. Walking in a proud, pompous way.

I provided you with projects files that you can download and start animating. So, you will have the opportunity to practice because we will be creating practical and easy to replicate walk cycles. The aim is for you to understand the concept behind a certain walk and create the walk.

By the end of the course, you will be equipped to create some more amazing walks.

Join me now and let’s get some character walking and running.

Cheers

Louay

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome to 2D Character Animation: Walk Cycles

Lecture 1: Welcome to Walk Cycles in Adobe After Effects CC

Lecture 2: Resources and more…

Lecture 3: Download the course resources

Chapter 2: Fun walk cycle with bezier path

Lecture 1: A Fun walk cycle with bezier path

Lecture 2: Setting up the Character

Lecture 3: Setting Guides to help you with the walk

Lecture 4: How to animate the legs

Lecture 5: Tips for a better walk motion

Lecture 6: How to animate the Body and Hips

Lecture 7: How to Animate the Arms

Lecture 8: Secondary Animation: Special Effects to animate the Ears

Lecture 9: Secondary Animation: Special Effects to animate the Mouth and Eyes

Lecture 10: How to Animate a Ground Shadow

Lecture 11: How to Style your character

Lecture 12: How to Create a GIF

Chapter 3: An Easier Way to Create Limbs

Lecture 1: The Ultimate Single Option Free Plugin

Lecture 2: How to create Functional Limbs

Lecture 3: How to Style the Limbs

Chapter 4: The Classic Walk Cycle Animation

Lecture 1: The Classic Walk Cycle Animation

Lecture 2: Character Setup

Lecture 3: Timeline Setup

Lecture 4: Walk Cycle: Animating the Front Leg

Lecture 5: Walk Cycle: Animating the Back Leg

Lecture 6: How to Link and Animate Shoes

Lecture 7: How to Animate The Hips

Lecture 8: How to Animate the Arms: Front Arm

Lecture 9: How to Animate the Arms: Back Arm

Lecture 10: How to Animate the Body

Lecture 11: How to Animate the Head

Lecture 12: Adding a ground shadow

Chapter 5: The Run Cycle

Lecture 1: The Run Cycle Animation

Lecture 2: Character & Timeline Setup

Lecture 3: How to Animate the Body

Lecture 4: How to Animate the Feet

Lecture 5: How to Animate the Hands

Lecture 6: How to Animate the Head

Chapter 6: The Sad Walk Cycle

Lecture 1: The Sad boy Walk Cycle

Lecture 2: Character & Timeline Setup

Lecture 3: How to create the Sad Walk Cycle – Feet Animation

Lecture 4: How to have a sad body Animation

Lecture 5: A sad, sad head animation

Lecture 6: Special Animation for the Hands

Lecture 7: Secondary Cloth Animations

Lecture 8: Fitting the Socks

Chapter 7: The Double Bounce Walk Cycle

Lecture 1: The Double Bounce Walk Cycle

Lecture 2: The Character & Timeline Setup

Lecture 3: The Body Animation – Determine the Bounce

Lecture 4: Feet follow animation

Lecture 5: How to animate the Head

Lecture 6: How to Animate the Hands

Chapter 8: Sneaky Walk Cycle

Lecture 1: Sneaky Walk Cycle

Lecture 2: The Character & Timeline Setup

Lecture 3: Start with Sneak Feet animation

Lecture 4: Follow with Body Animation

Lecture 5: And then the Head animation

Lecture 6: Continue with the Hands Animation

Lecture 7: Hey, How about the flowers

Lecture 8: Attaching the Shoes

Chapter 9: The Proud Walk Cycle

Lecture 1: The Character & Timeline Setup

Lecture 2: Start animating the Legs to set the momentum

Lecture 3: Follow with body Animation

Lecture 4: Continue with the Head Swing

Lecture 5: Secondary Animation: Hat and Face

Lecture 6: And finally animate the Hands

Chapter 10: Additional Animation Techniques

Lecture 1: The Course Mind Map – an in-depth Overview

Chapter 11: Mastering the Puppet tools

Lecture 1: Download the Exercise files

Lecture 2: Exploring the Puppet Pin Tool

Lecture 3: Understanding the Mesh

Lecture 4: Keyframing a Puppet Animation

Lecture 5: Using Motion Sketching to Create Animation

Lecture 6: Practical Scene Animation with Sketching

Lecture 7: The Puppet Overlap Tool

Lecture 8: Starching Body Parts

Chapter 12: Rigging – Another way to Puppeteering

Lecture 1: Download your Project Files for this Section

Lecture 2: Forward Kinetics and Rigging

Lecture 3: Setting and Rigging

Lecture 4: Animating the Rig – Amzing Results

Chapter 13: Rigging Puppet Pins

Lecture 1: The Secret Tip for Rigging Puppet Pins

Chapter 14: Summaries and Offers

Lecture 1: A summary of what you've learned

Chapter 15: Bonus

Lecture 1: Bonus: Your Next Step.

Instructors

Louay Zambarakji
Motion Graphics / Visual Effects / Video Editing
Kaiversity Online
Motion Design/Video Editing/Graphics Design

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2 stars: 13 votes
3 stars: 55 votes
4 stars: 104 votes
5 stars: 193 votes

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