Cartoon Creation and Animation using Photoshop and Character Animator

This course teaches how to create amazing cartoon animations using Photoshop, Character Animator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition, and google docs.

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950 students enrolled

Cartoon Animation

Onoja Michael

1day 14hours left

₦4,700

70%

~~₦15,700~~

Course Features

62 Lessons(8 hours)

950 students

Lifetime access to course

Certificate of completion

Skill Level: All Levels

Rated: 4.9

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DESCRIPTION

Learn how to create reusable characters, environment, edit audio tracks for explainer videos, short films, cartoons, commercials, creative live interactive characters music videos, and other media.

how to effectively create and animate a character inside of Adobe Character Animator! With the use of your video camera, microphone, and custom behaviors, you will learn how to create unique animations that can be used for business presentations, entertainment, and more!

More specifically, in this course, you will learn how to:

✅Design and Layout a Photoshop character for Adobe Character Animator import

✅Tag layers for lip-syncing and facial behaviors

✅Add special handles such as draggers to allow interactivity with the mouse

✅Create triggers for hide-able layers

✅Create Swap Sets for multi-phase layers

✅Auto lip-sync in the application

✅Lip sync using an external audio

✅Edit recorded actions

✅Work with backgrounds

✅Work with multiple puppets

✅Export animations through Adobe Media Encoder

✅Properly assemble rigs in Photoshop for Character Animator

✅Adding facial expressions using triggers and behaviors

✅Create Swap Sets for multi-phase items

✅Add dynamic motions with head turns and walk cycles

✅Create short films or cartoons with more than 3 characters having a dialogue in an apartment

✅Create and record cartoon animations for business purposes.

and many more

You will learn in detail how to animate the characters you create with your webcam and automated lip sync in Adobe's Character Animator!

We'll cover mouth shapes, layer placement, syncing an audio track to lips or creating your own audio for your character to voice, adding physics for more life-like movement, creating custom puppets, and even walk cycles.

In this course, you will learn how to use Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects to build our Characters and files. This software is essential to creating awesome and amazing characters for Character Animator.

This is a highly effective way to create reusable characters for explainer videos, short films, music videos, and other media.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Are the videos downloadable?

The videos are highly compressed and downloadable.

What are the course requirements?

A Computer or laptop with at least 8GB of RAM

Webcam

Windows 10 OS

Will the certificate be issued?

Yes, a certificate of completion will be issued at the end of the course at No charge.

How will I get access to the Course videos and Materials?

Once payment is completed. The course lessons and materials will be available to you instantly.

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Gideon Julius

Appreciation

All I can say is a very big thanks for taking your time to explain this course set by set, thank you very much sir. May God continue to increase you IJN🙏

Ayuba Time

Cartoon Animation

Wonderful course indeed!!! I learnt it all the way through... thanks Mr. Micheal Onoja for taking ur time to explain this in detail sir.

Usman Adamu

feedback

welldone the way instructor explain the topics is very clear and the course has enough materials morethan what we paid.

CHIBUIKE CHIKWADO FAVOUR

Animation

I truly like the learning process and the fact that it is downloadable is still another thing to be commended for.

Uchennaya Godsproperty Ejike

Wow

This course is well explained, very convenient and simple.. I wish I had known you guys earlier..

Course content

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Introduction to Photoshop

18 lectures

How to create a Document | 01 |

Photoshop Interface | 02 |

Editing the tool bar | 03 |

Overlapping square | 04 |

Customizing Photoshop interface | 05 |

Importing Images | 06 |

Creating layers | 07 |

Eyedropper tool | 12 |

Brush tool | 13 |

Text tool | 14 |

Document modification | 15 |

Introduction to Pen tool | 16 |

Advanced Pen tool | 17 |

Design Credit and Title Screen (First Project) | 17b |

How to design living room for characters

10 lectures

Overview of the Living room | 18 |

Setting up project dimension | 19 |

Creating background for Living room | 20 |

Creating the Chair for the Living room | 21 |

Window design | 22 |

Kitchen Cabinet | 23 |

Wall Painting | 24 |

Flower and Vase | 25 |

Gift boxes | 26 |

Light bulb | 27 |

Introduction and Head setup in Character Animator

7 lectures

Overview of Character animator Interface | 28 |

Naming and structuring | 29 |

Tags | 30 |

Behaviours | 31 |

Physics and Tags | 32 |

Triggers | 33 |

Lip-sync mouth | 34 |

Designing characters

7 lectures

How to design our first character Ola | 35 |

How to design our first character Ola Part II | 36 |

How to design our first character Ola Part III | 37 |

How to design our first character Ola Part IV | 38 |

How to design Hadiza Part I | 39 |

How to design Hadiza Part II | 40 |

How to design Hadiza Part III | 41 |

Adobe Audition Mixdown

3 lectures

Mixing prerecorded audio file Part I | 42 |

Mixing prerecorded audio file Part II | 43 |

Mixing prerecorded audio file Part III | 44 |

Rigging and animation in Character Animator

11 lectures

Animation process | 45 |

Physics | 46 |

Rigging | 47 |

Student Feedback

37 reviews

Reviews

Gideon Julius

Appreciation

All I can say is a very big thanks for taking your time to explain this course set by set, thank you very much sir. May God continue to increase you IJN🙏

Ayuba Time

Cartoon Animation

Wonderful course indeed!!! I learnt it all the way through... thanks Mr. Micheal Onoja for taking ur time to explain this in detail sir.

Usman Adamu

feedback

welldone the way instructor explain the topics is very clear and the course has enough materials morethan what we paid.

CHIBUIKE CHIKWADO FAVOUR

Animation

I truly like the learning process and the fact that it is downloadable is still another thing to be commended for.

Uchennaya Godsproperty Ejike

Wow

This course is well explained, very convenient and simple.. I wish I had known you guys earlier..

Babatunji George

Rating

Its a good learning platform. I like the fact that the courses are downloadable unlike Udemy.

Michael Onwusoro

Michael

The learning process, especially for beginners, is top notch. Thank you, Mr., Onoja.

Obiora Chukwuemerie Ernest

Great

Enjoying and gathering knowledge at the same time... Feels good

Busari Akeem Tunde

Cartoon Creation and Animation using Photoshop and Character Animator

From the start, I'm already seeing Green light. That's hope.

Godfred Kyere

Good course. Don't miss it

Am enjoying the step by step tutorial. That's very helpful

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1day 14hours left

₦4,700

70%

~~₦15,700~~

Course Features

62 Lessons(8 hours)

950 students

Lifetime access to course

Certificate of completion

Skill Level: All Levels

Rated: 4.9