We recommend that you take our Fundamentals of Animation course before tackling this one.
Get this course and 270 others by joining CG Cookie
Before you embark on your animation journey, here are some things you can expect.
I will also need to show you my user preferences so you're aware that when I push a button it might not necessarily do the same thing as when you push that button.
Learning to animate is learning to see.
Complex animation is a collection of its simple animations. And those simple animations can almost always be analyzed as bouncing balls.
Not so fast - I'm not done teaching you everything there is learn from bouncing balls!
You'll need to know how to make them rotate and how to give the illusion of weight. That's right - it's all a trick.
This is the last chapter focusing on ball animation. Who knew there was so much to learn from balls?
There's just few more things you'll need to practice before you can bring your character ball to life.
We're diving into characters at this point. In this chapter, we cover one more animation principle and introduce you to the VonnBots!
Summon all your animation skills to create believable and appealing walk cycles for the Stomp and Rivet VonnBots.
Congrats on finishing the course! If you're wondering where to go from here, this video I'll try to give you some direction.
I have a motion graphics background and had no idea how much this course would change the way I SEE keyframes and curves. Holy moly, this course is packed!
It is incredibly dense but Wayne takes us through it in a way that we don't even realize how much we have learned, until we blink and suddenly our bouncing ball has grown limbs and starts running 😅
The level of feedback I received was also unparalleled! Hearing how Wayne gets excited with our improvement from one exercise to the next is also a huge motivation boost.
I not only recommend taking the course, but taking it slow and redoing steps when needed. It's the CGCookie course that took me the longest but oh, so rewarding!
I started this course in January and finished it around the beginning of March. I didn't do the bonus run animation (yet), but this course was exactly what I needed to get started with animation. It teaches you the basics and has you create a lot of animations. He also provided excellent critiques along the way. I am very happy with the course. Now that I've finished it, I feel like I'm able to continue studying animation by working on more walk animations and eventually move into body mechanics.
Good look to everyone who decides to take the course.
A true masterclass in animation. This course lays a solid foundation for you to launch your animation journey off of. I would highly recommend taking this course if animation interests you :) 10/10
I wasn't really sure if I should get this course but I am very happy I did.
The problem I see in a lot of animation courses online is that the instructors tend to be very boring and the classes are not very well structured, but this course one is different.
Wayne is an awesome teacher. He explains everything very well and makes it fun to learn taking away a lot of the anxiety I had when it came to animating.
This Bootcamp is very well designed and the lessons are easy to follow along. You also get to do exercises and submit them just like if you where in an actual animation school.
One of the things I really love is that I am finally able to use the f-curves.
I never thought I would ever able to animate something using only the graph editor! 🤯
Learning animation using f-Curves first is brilliant!
Totally worth every penny for my subscription ❤️
This Bootcamp has been excellent, featuring a well-paced curriculum and thorough explanations from the instructor. The seamless progression allowed for a comprehensive learning experience, and the instructor's detailed guidance has equipped me with valuable skills. Moreover, the personalized touch of recording videos to address specific shortcomings in excercised demonstrates a commitment to individualized instruction, making the course particularly impactful.
I am so grateful to finding this course. Thank you CG Cookie, Thank you instructor Wayne.
3D animation was new to me, and my current Blender knowledge of modeling and rendering did barely give me something to hold on to. This course is the way to start. If you start this course: Take the time to absorb the matter because it's not only about learning to use the tools, Wayne teaches us to SEE, and that is not an easy one to do (I mean for me it wasn't).
I feel I made already major steps thanks to the course and especially thanks to the feedback from Wayne. He really went above and beyond to help me see and improve the results step by step each time I sent an exercise.
There still is a lot of progress to make for me personally, but at least I have a basis I can refer to whenever I get stuck. Thank you Wayne for this gem of a course!
The 3D animation was a true mystery for me [almost wanted to quite Blender after several weeks of trying to understand it] but this Bootcamp made it so simple and enjoyable. Also, I am so in love with how Wayne explains things, teaches techniques, and shares tricks. But the most important is the feedback provided alongside each exercise submission.
Thank you for the Bootcamp! Amazing exercises and practice!
I’ve wanted to animate for as long as I can remember, and the Animation Bootcamp has been foundational to my animation journey. Bouncing balls may seem trivial from the outside looking in but it is quickly apparent to how these lessons will follow you as you progress to more advanced topics. The lessons have a great mix of technical explanation, theory, and exercises to test your newly found knowledge. Wayne Dixon was an incredible teacher/mentor by providing the feedback I needed to further improve each exercise. He’s the first to show me what it is to truly see animation and I’m forever grateful.
Although I have not yet finished the course, I already looked at every class in the course.
By personal preference and recommendation, I recommend first watching the entire course and then following the steps while watching the course.
I want to thank the instructor, he is very charismatic and even though learning is a bit difficult, because animating is not easy, the instructor makes it much simpler and more understandable and also, what can be better than having a good time and learning a new skill.