I remember for the longest time I wanted to learn animation - but I always had excuses. I don’t have a good enough computer - so I would buy the computer. I don’t have good enough software - so I would buy the software. I don’t have enough time...that right there was the biggest excuse. Fact is - you almost always have free time, do you watch Netflix, YouTube, surf the web? I do. But for some reason I was making the excuse that I couldn’t animate BECAUSE I was doing those things. 

It wasn’t till summer break from college that I told myself - “I am going to do this”. For a whole month I locked myself in my room and taught myself how to animate. I didn’t make time for anything else other than running errands to get necessities and eating 3 meals a day. It started off rough, my biggest hurdle was first learning the animation tool I was using. Then once I got over the learning curve - I decided on the animation I was going to create. At the end of the month I was proud with what I had accomplished - my animation was really crappy. But I knew if I stuck to it and stopped making excuses, I knew I could get better. And so can YOU.

I have broken this course into (3) sections - beginner, Intermediate, and advanced. 

Just getting started - and want to take the first steps to learning animation - beginner is perfect for you. 

Already know the principles of animation - but are still struggling to effectively apply them to your animations - intermediate is just right for you. 

Ready to take your animation knowledge and create a setting, personality, and story for your characters - advanced might be just what you are looking for. 

So now that we talked about the sections - what’s in them? 

The beginner section will focus on (2) important parts to learning animation - the tool and the principles of animation. 

The animation principles are the most important things to know to become a great animator and bringing your character to life. You have probably heard of them or know of them - but haven’t really understood how to apply them. We will go over all of that. 

The second part is not nearly as important as the principles - but it is good to decide which animation tool you will be using before learning animation. 

Do you want to create hand drawn animations or do you want to create your character and then rig it with bones that allows you to move the character much like 3D animation?

I will quickly go over and provide links to the most popular and recommended 2D animation software and then talk about what software we will be using for the course - which is a 2D animation software called Moho/ Anime Studio.

I will then go over step by step all the animation tools within Moho that you will need to know in order to animate and we’ll create challenges to quickly learn how to apply those principles.

This section is for those that already know the principles - so let’s apply them! Let’s take each principle of animation and come up with a cool animation. This section will be loaded with challenges, lessons, and even critiques. Once you have joined and completed the lessons and challenges for the section, you can upload your work - and with your permission I will record a video - critiquing your work, what was good - what could be improved and upload it to the course Critiques section for the other Seasoned Animators to see.  

Alright, let’s get into the stuff everyone wants to know about. ‘How do I create my own animation’. Whether it’s an animation for your friends, client, or your YouTube channel - it helps to follow the same Production Process that many professionals around the world use. 

So we are going to talk about pre-production, production, and post production. 

For this section I am going to participate in a challenge on the website - animestudiotutor.com. The challenge is simply a theme - then I create the story, setting, characters, script, animation - everything. I will document the entire process so you can see the entire process. I will show you everything from my file structure for best organization - to animation techniques and editing techniques to get the best timing. I will then share the finished animation project file for you to study, modify, and do whatever you want.

And you will also be left with the ultimate challenge - to also participate in a challenge on anime studio tutor and come up with your animation and share it with the other students. 

Have you been asked by friends and family what you like to do in your free time?

You might respond “I like to animate!”. They then ask to see your animations - and you scramble on your phone to find the best animations you have posted to YouTube and instagram. 

You then show them your best animation, only to hear them respond in a non-energetic or perhaps sarcastic tone “oh, cool”.

You’re probably thinking “oh, cool? OH COOL?!” 

“That’s all I get?! - I spent sleepless nights slaving away, pouring my heart and soul into this animation - and all you can say is oH cOoL?!”

Okay...okay - that might be a little dramatic. But we’ve all been there - showing an impressive animation we created to an unimpressed family member. 

Well it’s time to change that - sign up for the course - learn what it takes to create awesome animations - or at least, as awesome animations that I know how to create and teach to you at this point of my life. 

Then next time someone asks to see your animation that will sincerely be saying “Oh COOOOOOL!” 

Because that’s been my goal - and up till about a year ago was I able to finally get that response when showing my animations.