Mastering Motion

The course to take you from amateur to professional in 2D animation
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By completing this course, you will be able to:


☑ Create impressive animation effects

☑ Invent dynamic fight choreography

☑ Simulate 3D looking "camera movement" in your 2D hand-drawn animation

☑ Be guided by an award-winning animator
☑ Train the methods used in Anime and elite western studios

☑ Animate believable character performances

☑ Connect with a focussed class of animation students

☑ View in English with translated subtitles

What's Inside

Mastering Drawing


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All exclusive to the Mastering Motion course.
  • 10 Lessons recapping the principles of drawing
  • 12 Lessons on mastering drawing (beyond principles)
  • Total Video runtime: 4 hours
  • 3 Assignments
  • 2 test quizzes

Strengthen your ability to draw from observation and from imagination. Drawing is an inseparable part of high level frame by frame animation.
This chapter teaches you to:

✔ Design better characters for your animation

✔ Draw with more confidence

✔ Draw with more energy

✔ Draw your concepts faster

Mastering Animation


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  • 22 Lessons
  • Total Video runtime: 6.5 hours
  • 6 Assignments
  • 6 Source Files
  • 2 test quizzes
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5 NEW SPECIAL ANIMATION PRINCIPLES to enhance your animation beyond the 12 we established in my Getting Started course. Learn these principles with easy-to-follow exercises step by step. Whether you plan to work in Anime or western animation studios, these make your animations:

✔ "faster" more energetic animations

✔ More visually interesting

✔ More dynamic

✔ Unique to this course

Reference Process


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  • 23 Lessons
  • Total Video runtime: 4.3 hours
  • 3 Assignments
  • 3 Step-by-step demonstrations
  • 3 Source Files
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Reference footage is a crucial process in creating a convincing piece of animation. In this section, I show my step-by-step process for finding, creating and interpreting reference footage. After this unit you will know how to:

✔ Obtain the best reference footage

✔ Creatively capture references

✔ Extract the best poses

✔ Re-time keyframes to look dynamic and powerful

✔ Ascend the 3 levels of interpreting reference footage

+ It's a great way to adopt another animator's style - for those learning to work in studios

Hand-Drawn Camera Movement


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  • 35 Lessons
  • Total Video runtime: 8.2 hours
  • 4 Exercises increasing in difficulty
  • 4 Step-by-step demonstrations
  • 8 Source Files
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Exercises and demos which gradually increase in complexity. These will guide you through to mastery of this tough animation technique. Your animations will have more depth and dimension to them. It will feel like you can move anywhere in your scene. This course includes:

✔ Learn the 8 principles of 3D parallax

✔ Construct dynamic action scenes from any angle

✔ Characters feel like they are moving in 3D space

✔ Source files to explore

✔ Assignments of gradually increasing difficulty

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Combat Choreography


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  • 20 Lessons
  • Total Video runtime: 3.3 hours
  • 3 Assignments
  • 3 Step-by-step demonstrations
  • 3 Source Files

One of the most popular subjects is also one of the toughest to master. This chapter will provide a full package of resources so that you can:

✔ Create an action scene of your own from scratch

✔ Freely improvise movement of the human body

✔ Boost the energy and flow of your choreography

✔ Have plenty of ideas for action scenes

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Character Animation


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All Character Animation lessons are exclusive to the Mastering Motion course.
  • 45 Lessons
  • Total Video runtime: 10.3 hours
  • Supplementary tutorials on Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, OBS
  • 1 Complete walkthrough from planning to final render
  • 4 Assignments
  • 2 Source Files
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Create a character animation scene from concept to finished render - with practical exercises set to help you learn. Beyond the technicalities, this is in-depth with how to create a great character acting performance. You will learn how to:

✔ Act out your reference footage

✔ Shooting and interpreting

✔ Lip sync and character expressions

✔ Cel shade and colour fill

✔ Environment painting and animation

✔ The full workflow from concept to final render

✔ Acting performance Deep Dive

Assignments

Hand-picked assignments throughout the course to exercise your creativity and introduce new animation concepts. The assignments build in difficulty as the course progresses. Watch your portfolio grow as you make your way through these chapters.

Exclusive Community

Connect with other like-minded students in our private Discord server. This is a dedicated server where students can exchange resources, feedback, job postings and hold each other accountable to our goals.

Course Requirements

These are more like recommendations. No one will be turned away, but following these recommendations will help you to get the most out of the course.

Animation Software

  • This course does not teach software. Sometimes you might need to adapt your approach if you don't have TVPaint.
  • The best software to use with this course is TVPaint (because that's what I use), but other inferior software will be sufficient. These are mostly frame by frame principles.
  • My pipeline after the animation phase includes Adobe Photoshop (for backgrounds), After effects (for compositing) and Premiere (for sound and final edit). There will be times in the course where I show you how I use these extra software.

A Working Graphics Tablet

Basic Drawing Ability

  • These Basic drawing fundamentals are taught in my previous course. We also have a refresher seminar inside Mastering Motion to help you remember.

Understand the 12 Principles

  • A rudimentary understanding is helpful to get the most out of the lessons. there is a refresher seminar inside Mastering Motion to help you remember.

Not ready? Take my other course Getting Started in 2D Animation

Student Results


Standy

Long Jumper by Sampsa

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Atom

Cony

Mark Diaz

Duu Freak

FlickStatic

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There is usually a tax incentive for studios to fund their artist's training. If you work for a studio, try asking your upper management to sponsor your training. Animator Guild can send VAT receipts to assist your company's tax filings.

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How long does it take to complete this course?
It is estimated to take 6 months for full-time students, and 12 months for part-time students. We have built a weekly checklist schedule to help keep you on track with these timelines. However, there is no restriction to course content, so you can skip ahead to lessons you care most about, or you can re-visit lessons as much as you like. It is a very flexible course where you can learn at your own pace.
Does the TVPaint -20% Discount Stack With My Student Discount?
Yes, if you are a registered student at a government-recognised institution your 50% student discount should stack with my discount at -15%.
Can I take Mastering Motion without taking the Getting Started course?
Yes. If you have already learned about the basics of animation, or are getting taught the basics somewhere else, Mastering Motion will be ready for you to jump into. I have even added some principles recap lectures just as a refresher for you before getting into the harder concepts.
What can I do to prepare for the course?
Firstly, you can take my Getting Started in 2D Animation course if you haven't already. You can get familiar with your animation software of choice. I also recommend doing cafe sketch sessions. Bring your sketchbook to a coffee shop and draw the people / things you see. Do this as a daily practice.
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