Character Animation Course
What will I learn?
Unlock your animation skills with our Character Animation Course for Senegal, made for arts professionals who want to level up their game. You'll dive deep into character design basics, learning how to make faces and bodies that really show what the character is feeling, and learning about different character types. You'll also learn animation principles like anticipation, timing, and squash and stretch – things that make your animation feel real. We'll cover storyboarding so you can plan out your animations, and you'll learn how to use the latest animation software like a pro. This course is packed with practical, high-quality lessons to help you turn your ideas into awesome animations that will grab people's attention.
Apoia's Unique Features
Develop skills
Enhance the development of the practical skills listed below
Master animation workflow: Learn to clean up your animations, make them smoother, and add those little extra details that bring them to life, all in a way that's easy to manage.
Enhance character design: Create expressive features that really capture the character's personality and simplify them for smoother animation, without losing the feeling.
Apply animation principles: Master anticipation, timing, squash, and stretch to make your animations look and feel realistic and engaging.
Develop storyboarding skills: Learn to tell a story with pictures, using timing and pacing to create a compelling narrative that viewers will love.
Utilize animation software: Get comfortable with keyframe techniques, layers, and onion skinning to control every aspect of your animations.
Suggested overview
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before getting started, you can adjust the chapters and the workload.
- Choose which chapter to begin with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can include
You'll be able to create more chapters like the examples below
This is a free course, focused on personal and professional growth. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.