Make Motion Comics

🌟 Course Title: Make Motion Comics 🚀

🚀 Course Headline: Animate Your Comics + Illustrations In Adobe Photoshop, After Effects + Character Animator!

📖 Welcome to the World of Motion Comics!
This is not just animation. It's a symphony of your artwork brought to life with a unique blend of storytelling and digital artistry. In this specialized form of animation, your original artwork remains at the forefront, telling a visual narrative through animated panels rather than traditional frame-by-frame or CGI techniques.

🎨 Course Breakdown:

This class is a journey through three distinct animation techniques I used to create my own 14-minute motion comic animation "Innocence of Seduction."

Adobe Photoshop: Learn how to break down your illustrations into individual components and animate them frame by frame, preserving the handcrafted feel of your artwork.

Adobe Character Animator: Discover the magic of giving life to your characters using motion capture with your webcam and leveraging Character Animator's features to align audio with character expressions and dialogue.

Adobe After Effects: Place your animated characters into scenes, master keyframe animation, and apply stunning effects like blurs and camera shake to create a dynamic environment for your story.

🎬 Advanced Techniques Demo:

I'll take you through advanced Character Animator and After Effects techniques to endow Marvel Comics' X-Men characters with their unique animated superpowers, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in motion comics.

🛠️ Tools You'll Need:

This class utilizes animation techniques within Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and its sub-program, Character Animator. Ensure you have access to these tools as we cover the basics for beginners and build up to advanced techniques.

🖌️ For My Demo:

I've chosen to work with public domain Golden Age comics, showing you how to clean up scans of these vintage illustrations for animation. Feel free to use your own artwork or follow along with my examples.

❓ Expectations & Requirements:

This class is tailored for artists who work with flat, comic book-style illustrations and is not suited for those seeking to create fully rendered, realistic animations like those from Pixar. Our focus here is on mastering the animation techniques.

🎓 Class Focus:

While we aim to cover a comprehensive range of skills, this class does not culminate in a final 30-minute film with sound and voices. The unique nature of each project's editing process makes it impractical to cover in detail. We are here to master the animation methods.

👀 Trailer & Free Lectures:

Curious about what you'll learn? Check out the course trailer and dive into some free lectures to get a sneak peek into the amazing world of Motion Comics. Join me in this creative adventure and elevate your storytelling through animation!

👩‍🎨 Ready to Animate?
Enroll now and bring your comics to life with the power of Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Character Animator. Let's embark on this creative journey together! 🌈