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February 17, 2025 0

Udemy – Intro to 2D Character Animation in Adobe After Effects Free Download

What you’ll learn
Animate a face & body
Parenting layers & Anchor points
Animate a character using simple rotation, position, and scale properties
Others extras such as creating a boil effect(hand drawn look) and some text animations

My main purpose for creating this class is to show students that you can create character animations without using any rigging tools such as Duik, Rubberhose, or Joysticks ‘n Sliders. No plugins are required for this class. We will be animating using rotation, position, and scale properties. I believe this class is a great starting point. Then I suggest moving on to more complex character animation tools.

Character animation is one of the more complex things you will have to do as a motion designer. For this reason, I recommend this class for intermediate students. For absolute beginners, I suggest taking one of my beginner classes such as “Basics of Motion Design – Start Animating in Adobe After Effects”.

In this class you’ll learn how to:

Animate a face & body

Import character artwork and parent layers

Animate a character using simple rotation, position, and scale properties

Others extras such as creating a boil effect(hand drawn look) and some text animations

How to export your animation to share in the project gallery

You’ll be creating:

A character animation using the techniques taught in this class

You can complete the class project by following these steps:

Download the artwork on the project & resources page

Follow along with my lessons

Then take what you’ve learned and apply it to your own character

Download the completed project file on the projects & resources page, it might help if you get stuck on a lesson

What You Need:

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Media Encoder to export

To share your class project follow these steps:

Export your animation in mp4 format

Upload your video to a video-sharing platform such as YouTube or Vimeo

I suggest setting your video to “Unlisted” if you do not want it shared publicly

On the projects & resources page find the submit project button

Share the link to your video

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Who this course is for:
Intermediate level students that want to take the first step into character animation