Skillshare – Learn to Create Dynamic Animation with 2D and 3D Illustration

Learn to create original animations by combining different formats of digital illustration

illustration allows you to express your inner artistic world. Combining illustration with animation, allows you to bring that world to life! We are here to teach you how to do just that by creating engaging animations.

The course is great for designers and animators, or anyone who wants to learn animation techniques.

Uncover the secrets behind animation and learn how to use editing software to tell your own unique story. Get a complete step-by-step walkthrough from creating your illustration on paper to digitizing and animating it in software like After Effects, Cinema 4D, and Octane Render.

Get inspired by exploring references of your favorite artists, studios, and websites. Think of the story you want to tell by coming up with a concept and writing a visual script. Then, take your visual script to the storyboard and start creating your scenes frame by frame in Photoshop.

Dive into the production phase and start designing the protagonist of your animation. We guide you step-by-step from the initial sketches of your character to the finalized illustration in Photoshop. Bring your storyboard and character together to complete your frame. Next, explore the different elements of your design and decide which pieces should be 2D or 3D.

Explore Cinema 4D’s powerful digital tools by learning different techniques such as box-modeling and poly-modeling. We give you a walkthrough of some software essentials before demonstrating how to model a 2D design into a 3D one. Then, learn how to model the most important element of your character: the face.