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Character Animation Course

Course Description

This free workshop is for anyone interested in bringing stories to life with animation. Corporate videos, entertainment, and explainer videos are increasingly using animated characters. Learn the process of creating your first animation, and explore the tools professional animators use on TV shows such as The Simpsons , The Late Show with Stephen Colbert , and Tooning Out the News.

Course Topics

• Animating characters
• Creating lip sync animation
• Using other tools in Creative Cloud to assemble your compelling story

About This Course

Gain an overview of compelling video creations currently being created, discuss the demand in the industry and how these skills are needed, explore the four work spaces in Character Animator, delve into rigging basics, puppet preflight, customizing with Adobe Illustrator, backgrounds, audio recording and editing, & face recording and editing.

Design Communication Arts and User Experience

UCLA Extension offers courses and professional certificates in Design Communication Arts and User Experience to help you take your career to the next level.