After Effects: Animate Your Character's First Steps
A course by Moncho Massé , Illustrator and Animator
Design and animate your own character in After Effects, make them walk, and create a custom background
Design and animate your own character in After Effects, make them walk, and create a custom background
Want to bring 2D characters to life? Learn the process for animating your characters in After Effects alongside professional illustrator and animator Moncho Massé. This is Moncho's third Domestika course, so, if you haven't already, you might also be interested in taking Animation and Design of Characters in After Effects and Animation Techniques with 3D Effects in After Effects.
This time round, Moncho teaches you to use After Effects to make your character take their first steps. After familiarizing yourself with the software's interface, get straight to work designing and animating your protagonist! Moncho shows you how to create walk cycles, and even how to make your character run. To finish up, learn to animate more complex characters and how to export your work correctly. Now you're ready to animate anything!
What will you learn in this online course?
20 lessons & 15 downloads
- 100% positive reviews (58)
- 1,582 students
- 20 lessons (3h 44m)
- 15 additional resources (4 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
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- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Recommended software for this course
Adobe After EffectsWhat is this course's project?
Create your favorite famous character in 2D and then make them walk and run.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
This course is aimed at anyone who wants to get started in character animation with After Effects or wants to build on their animation skills.
Requirements and materials
No previous knowledge is necessary as your teacher explains everything from scratch, but basic notions of After Effects would make things a little easier. For materials, all you need is a computer with After Effects (you can use the free trial version).
New to Adobe After Effects? In that case, we recommend taking Domestika Basics courses to learn how to use the software: Introduction to After Effects.
Reviews
A course by Moncho Massé
Like a true '80s kid, Moncho grew up with his eyes glued to the screen, captivated by the creations of Toriyama, Miyazaki, Disney, and Cartoon Network, and his hands glued to his Nintendo and Sega controls. It is thanks to these influences that he developed his own personal motion graphics style.
After studying audiovisual communication and journalism at the University of Valencia, Spain, he worked as a video editor for a small agency in Amsterdam. It was there that he discovered his true passion for animation, which has led him to create motion graphics pieces for a wide range of clients and projects.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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U2
Introduction to After Effects
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After Effects and its interface
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Playing with shape layers 1
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Playing with shape layers 2
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U3
Theory and animation of a walk cycle
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Creation and design of a character 1
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Creation and design of a character 2
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Creation and design of a character 3
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Character rig
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Walk cycle: torso and head
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Walk cycle: move those arms
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Walk cycle: feet are the key
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Walk cycle: the finishing touch
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U4
Animating a run cycle
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Run cycle: torso and head
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Run cycle: limbs 1
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Run cycle: limbs 2
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Run cycle: the finishing touch
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U5
Adding value to our project
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Background creation and animation
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Export
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Complex shapes
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FP
Final project
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After Effects: Animate Your Character's First Steps
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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Learn at your own pace
Enjoy learning from home without a set schedule and with an easy-to-follow method. You set your own pace.
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Learn from the best professionals
Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
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Certificates
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Get front-row seats
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Share knowledge and ideas
Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
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Connect with a global creative community
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Watch professionally produced courses
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FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
You can redeem the course you received by accessing the redeeming page and entering your gift code.
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gabrstevenson
PlusCurso super útil com bastante conteúdo importante e boas explicações, amei aprender ainda mais sobre animação de personagens.
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ewertongabriel12
PlusCurso super útil com bastante conteúdo importante e boas explicações, amei aprender ainda mais sobre animação de personagens.
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akshaygarg1919
really good course
peeraya1510
Easy to understand !
FlorenciaIfran
Gracias por compartir tus conocimientos!
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