Advanced
Character Acting
Push past mechanics into performance. Make your characters feel alive.
12 lessons180 min4.9 rating2,483 students
Maya Okonkwo
10 years at Pixar working on character animation.
What you'll learn
- Acting principles adapted for animators
- Body language and apparent weight
- Lip sync timing
- Walk and run cycles that have personality
- Combat staging and crowd choreography
- Working with performance capture
Requirements
- •Completed Basic 2D Animation or Rigging Fundamentals.
- •Comfortable keyframing in either 2D or 3D.
About this course
Push past mechanics into performance. Make your characters feel alive. This course breaks the topic down into 12 digestible lessons — about 15 minutes each. Every lesson has a hands-on exercise and a short quiz so the ideas actually stick. By the end you'll have practiced everything in Animatrix itself, not just watched it happen.
Lesson plan
- 16 min01Acting Principles for Animators
- 16 min02Body Language and Weight
- 14 min03Facial Animation Basics
- 14 min04Lip Sync Techniques
- 16 min05Emotion Through Movement
- 16 min06Walk Cycles Advanced
- 14 min07Run Cycles
- 14 min08Jump and Land
- 16 min09Combat Choreography
- 14 min10Crowd Animation
- 14 min11Performance Capture Overview
- 16 min12Final Character Scene