Motion Practice with Ben Marriott

A practical structured course on combining frame-by-frame animation and After Effects. You will learn how to create frame-by-frame animation, add it to your motion design projects and create scenes full of captivating motion and characters.

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Course Overview

Do you want to find your own style and create truly unique works? The best way to achieve this is by combining various techniques and tools! In this practical course merging traditional frame-by-frame animation and After Effects, we’re going to create 6 animated projects. Each project is focused on a different technique integrating frame-by-frame animation into your workflow. We will be taking a deep-dive into every step of the process, explaining all the decision-making that goes into merging these 2 different methods together. By combining the best elements of both worlds you will bring unique creatures to life focusing on the process and workflow.

So if you already have some basic knowledge of After Effects and Illustrator I’m inviting you to my animation magic classes.

Level

Basic

Format

Online

Lessons

Duration

4h+

Required Software

Adobe Animate, After Effects

Language

English

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COURSE CURRICULUM

What will I learn in Motion Practice?

LESSON #1

Introduction

We’re covering the basics of frame-by-frame animation using Adobe Animate & integrating that with After Effects. We start to cover some of the basic principles to elevate your animations to the next level.

Onion skins
Timing
Cleanup in Animate
Exporting as SWF
Cleanup in AE with shape layers
Adding textures
Imitating a frame-by-frame look in AE

LESSON #2

Walk & Run Cycles

A walk and run cycle are staples of animation. They are so much quicker to make frame-by-frame and you can know if it is going to be effective after drawing only 2 frames. We’re going to experiment with pushing your breakdown poses to create a completely different mood.

Walk cycles
Run cycles
Follow through and overlapping action

About the author

Hi I’m Ben Marriott!

I freelance regularly at Buck and have worked on projects for Google, Emirates, Converse, Dropbox, Twitter, Coca-Cola, KFC & Redbull. I produce weekly motion design & animation tutorials on YouTube breaking down intermediate and advanced techniques. I really love teaching process and workflow, I believe with a relatively small set of skills and fundamental knowledge of design and animation you can solve almost any motion design problem.

I like to add a lot of humor to my design and animation and think that animation should serve the design and the story above all else. Also that almost any object can be improved by at least 20% by adding a face to it.

Our students working in top companies

Michael Gardner

The lessons are great. You get what you’re looking for and a little more.

Katarzyna Wisniewska

I work for Accenture and animated videos are on a daily basis. Our clients loved the few effects that I was able to learn at the course. Also, I still go back to the lessons and find something new to learn.

Elizabeth Gallian

Great classes and I’m happy that invested in them. I definitely learned a lot of new ways of working that made me faster and better at my job.

Nikki Slaughter

I’ve watched some of the shorter classes and have loved them! The teaching style is fantastic and engaging ? I’ve also enjoyed seeing everyone’s work in the FB groups. Everyone seems to be excited to give helpful feedback and encouragement! I recommend your classes to my coworkers and friends all the time (am a full time sr. designer).

Matthew McDonald

The Science of Character course was extremely helpful. It was easy to follow and the lessons were top notch. Your team produces high quality learning experiences that I haven’t found in other places when it comes to motion graphics. Keep up the great work!

Elys Muda

Yes, I found the courses extremely helpful and well put together. I was researching online tutorials for my colleagues who are just beginning to learn AE and was testing out a MDS course to see if I could recommend it. I ended up learning a lot myself 🙂

Learn the skill of frame-by-frame animation

Learn how to use Adobe Animate

Solidify fundamental animation skills

Learn techniques that can be applied to any animation

Get a fast skillset upgrade essential for any motion designer

Discover new and fresh approaches to already known software

Learn the workflows used at top-studios

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