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Character Animation Course

What will I learn?

Open up your animation skills with our Character Animation Course, designed especially for Zambian arts professionals looking to improve their talent. Get deep into the basics of character design, learning how to create characters with strong expressions and recognizable types. Learn about animation rules like anticipation, timing, and squash and stretch. Discover storyboarding methods and improve how you work using modern computer programs. This course gives you useful, top-quality information to turn your creative ideas into interesting animations.

Apoia's Unique Offerings

Online courses with lifetime access
Certificate aligned with educational standards
Printable PDF summaries
24/7 online support
Select and organise the chapters you wish to study
Set your own course workload
Instant feedback on practical activities
Study at your convenience, no internet required

Develop your skills

Enhance your practical skills listed below

Master animation workflow: Make your work better, neaten it up, and add extra little movements smoothly.

Enhance character design: Create characters that show a lot of feeling and make them simple for animation.

Apply animation principles: Perfect anticipation, timing, squash, and stretch.

Develop storyboarding skills: Tell stories that grab people's attention with good timing and pacing.

Utilize animation software: Use keyframe techniques, layers, and onion skinning.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters similar to the examples below

This is a free course aimed at personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but provides practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.