Make Motion Comics

Make Motion Comics, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.45, with 31 lectures, based on 56 reviews, and has 338 subscribers.

You will learn about turn your illustrations and comic artwork into films use Photoshop to animate comic illustrations through frame by frame animation use Character Animator to do motion capture animation with synchronized audio use After Effects to do keyframe animation, add special effects and incorporate various kinds of media for scenes This course is ideal for individuals who are illustrators who want to animate their work or filmmakers who want to learn animation or comic creators who want to create multimedia teasers for their social media It is particularly useful for illustrators who want to animate their work or filmmakers who want to learn animation or comic creators who want to create multimedia teasers for their social media.

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Summary

Title: Make Motion Comics

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.45

Number of Lectures: 31

Number of Published Lectures: 31

Number of Curriculum Items: 31

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 31

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

turn your illustrations and comic artwork into films

use Photoshop to animate comic illustrations through frame by frame animation

use Character Animator to do motion capture animation with synchronized audio

use After Effects to do keyframe animation, add special effects and incorporate various kinds of media for scenes

Who Should Attend

illustrators who want to animate their work

filmmakers who want to learn animation

comic creators who want to create multimedia teasers for their social media

Target Audiences

illustrators who want to animate their work

filmmakers who want to learn animation

comic creators who want to create multimedia teasers for their social media

Welcome to the world of Motion Comics!?This is a specialized form of animation using portions of original artwork to animate a story rather than individual drawings for each frame or cgi characters. ?By animating in this style, you are able to keep the aesthetic of individually drawn panels with complicated foregrounds and backgrounds; you are able to make your comics into films.?

This class is broken down into 3 distinct approaches, which I used to make my own 14 minute motion comic animation “Innocence of Seduction”:

Adobe Photoshop – breaking down illustrations into individual components and animatingFrame by Frame

Adobe Character Animator– using your webcam to giveMotion Capture animation to Photoshop puppets and Character Animator’s functions to synchronize audio to our character’s talking heads

Adobe After Effects – placing our characters into a scene, working withKeyframe animation and applying special effects like blurs and camera shake

After I show you how I made my motion comics in these programs,?I have a demo using advanced Character Animator and After Effects techniques on how I gave specific animated superpowers to Marvel Comics’ X-Men characters.

Tools:

This class uses animation techniques in Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and a sub-program of After Effects called Character Animator, so you’ll need access to those to start with. ?We’ll cover the basics of each program so if this is your first time animating, this class is for you!

For my demo, I chose to use public domain Golden Age comics, so I’ll show you how to break apart and clean up the artwork from these scans. ?If you need artwork, feel free to follow my example, or use your own illustrations.

Some expectations:

This class is designed to work with flat, comic book-style illustrations.

This class is not for people who are more interested in fully rendered, realistic animation in the vein of Pixar.?

Also, we are focused on the technique and not on a final, fully completed 30 minute film?with sound and voices. The final stories and editing are so unique project-to-project that I have chose to focus on these animation methods. ?

Check out the trailer and free lectures to learn more about the amazing world of Motion Comics, and see you in class!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: What are Motion Comics?

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Preparing Artwork in Photoshop

Lecture 1: Getting Public Domain Material

Lecture 2: Breaking Apart the Art and Basic Cleanup

Chapter 3: Photoshop Animation Timeline

Lecture 1: The Animation Timeline

Lecture 2: Transformations For Complex Animation

Lecture 3: Tweening Frames

Lecture 4: Exporting Animation With The Alpha Channel

Chapter 4: Adobe Character Animator

Lecture 1: Templates and Phonemes

Lecture 2: Cutting Apart The Face and Placing The Artwork

Lecture 3: Finalizing The Face

Lecture 4: Diving Into Character Animator

Lecture 5: Adding Physics

Lecture 6: Exporting a Sequence and Importing to After Effects

Chapter 5: Adobe After Effects Work

Lecture 1: Setting Up After Effects

Lecture 2: Effects

Lecture 3: More Layers and Velocity of Keyframes

Lecture 4: Envisioning the Full Scene

Lecture 5: Backgrounds and More FX

Lecture 6: Adjustment Layers

Lecture 7: 3D Space

Lecture 8: Rendering + Prerendering

Chapter 6: Cycling Illustrator and Photoshop Layers In Character Animator

Lecture 1: Designing In Adobe Illustrator

Lecture 2: Photoshopping Textures

Lecture 3: Cycle Layers In Character Animator

Lecture 4: FX To Your Comic Assets

Chapter 7: Superpowers

Lecture 1: Superpowers Pt. 1: Energy Projectiles

Lecture 2: Superpowers 2: Rigging Energy/ Projectile

Lecture 3: Superpowers 3: Transformations 1

Lecture 4: Superpowers 4: Transformations 2

Lecture 5: Motion Comics Wrap Up

Lecture 6: Superpowers 5: Psychic/ Magic

Instructors

David Miller
Multimedia Artist

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 4 votes

2 stars: 4 votes

3 stars: 12 votes

4 stars: 14 votes

5 stars: 22 votes

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