Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement

In this course you will learn how to develop an animated character from the sketch to the "rig" or set of controls that will allow you to pose our digital puppet, using a series of free extras and tricks of After Effects.

The first thing that Zenzuke will teach you will be to do the character's sketch and the different postures you can use to animate it later more easily. Then you will finish designing your character in Photoshop and you will take it to After Effects.

It will be time to turn your cutout doll into a 3D drawing with limbs, spine to stretch, shrink and bend and a head with which you can look at the world around you. Then you will learn how to make this whole collection of scattered parts work together and you will know how to make your creature walk without looking like a robot.

To finish you will put your character in a background and, if you have left wanting more, you will also discover how to prepare other expressions extra as smile or anger, to open your eyes with surprise or blink.

A very complete course in which you will feel Dr. Frankenstein giving life to your work.