The Animation for Beginners Playlist by Ben Marriott is a free YouTube series meant to help aspiring motion designers and animators understand the principles of animation. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, Ben covers essential animation principles, timing, easing, keyframes, motion, and practical workflows using Adobe After Effects. By taking students through actual [...]
Maxon offers a beginner-friendly introduction course called Cinema 4D Quick Start that covers the principles of Cinema 4D. You’ll discover how to use the interface, manipulate 3D objects, build simple models, add lighting and materials, set up cameras, and generate your first 3D scenes. Before advancing to more complex motion [...]
Epic Games offers a free, interactive learning path that covers the entire Unreal Engine animation process. Skeletal meshes, animation blueprints, blend spaces, control rigs, sequencers, keyframe animation, retargeting, and character animation methods utilized in virtual production, games, and cinematography are just a few of the fundamental subjects you will master. [...]
Character Animation Fundamentals (now offered as Animation Basics) is an introductory 12-week course meant to teach the essential principles of 3D character animation. Students learn the 12 Principles of Animation, timing, spacing, weight, posture, blocking, polishing, and personality through industry-standard activities such as bouncing balls and walk cycles. Autodesk Maya [...]
Adobe Animate Tutorials is a free collection of official learning resources that teaches you how to create 2D animations, interactive online content, character animations, motion graphics, and HTML5 canvas applications. Drawing tools, symbols, motion tweens, asset warping, lip-sync, camera motions, exporting, and animation workflows are just a few of the [...]
Motion Graphics Essentials is a beginner-friendly free online course from Alison that explains the core principles of motion graphics and animation. In order to produce captivating digital content for videos, presentations, advertisements, and social media, learners study animation fundamentals, motion design concepts, typography, visual storytelling, and industry-standard workflows. For aspiring [...]
The fundamental concepts and techniques of Blender animation are taught in the beginner-friendly course Blender Animation Fundamentals by CG Cookie. You’ll create useful tasks like floating objects, looping animations, and a traditional bouncing ball while learning how to work with keyframes, the Timeline, Dope Sheet, Graph Editor, interpolation, and motion [...]
Pixar in a Box is a free, interactive instructional series that brings you behind the scenes of Pixar Animation Studios. You will discover how animation, storytelling, lighting, rendering, simulation, color science, modeling, visual effects, mathematics, computer science, physics, and art come together to make animated films through real-world examples from [...]
A lecture for beginners that uses interactive exercises to introduce the fundamentals of animation. While making a bouncing ball animation, students investigate ideas like straight-ahead animation, linear interpolation, Bézier curves, and squash-and-stretch. The training mixes creativity with the mathematics underpinning professional animation techniques used in the animation industry. It is [...]
Learn Animation is a thorough learning guide from Noble Desktop that covers professional paths, key software, learning resources, and the principles of animation. Motion graphics, video editing, animation concepts, 2D and 3D animation, and the programs frequently used by professional animators, such as Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Cinema [...]