Character animation can be a fun hobby or an exciting and rewarding career.
Whichever path you wish to follow, this course will teach you the essential skills you need to get started.
"One of the best animation courses to get started in Blender by far. The teacher does an amazing job of explaining the principals of animation with fun unique styles."
3D PiXL
(Student Feedback - Into Animation: Character Animation Fundamentals)
Animation combines many aspects of art, design, and filmmaking into one exciting medium. This complexity can make it both time consuming and difficult to learn.
This course aims to demystify the fundamental principles on which quality character animation is based, enabling you to create believable characters, and giving you a solid foundation on which to continue to learn and grow.
"This class really teaches you how to animate a character, after this class you are pretty much good to go for making your own animations. It's the best class I have seen, very well done!
I would 100% recommend this class"
Day Knight
(Student Feedback - Into Animation: Character Animation Fundamentals)
By the end of this course, you will have gained a solid understanding of the 12 Principles of Animation and how to apply them to your own character animation.
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 animation. A fun, animation of a character jump using the provided character.
Throughout this course 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 course, which will teach you everything you need to follow along.
This course has been updated to be fully compatible with Blender 4 or higher.
This course is all about bringing characters to life so you will be working with a prebuilt character rig which is provided with the course. This course does not cover character modelling or rigging since these are complex topics which require in depth courses of their own.
Hi, I'm John!
Before building Into Animation I worked as an animator and animation director in children's television for over 15 years.
I love animation and my goal is to give you the best start possible in this exciting and rewarding craft.