After each lesson, you will have a demonstration and an assignment that you can follow along with free tools online or with items around your house and a free stop motion app on your phone.

The lessons include:

• The History of the Animation Principles


• The Science of Animation


• Squash & Stretch


• Slow In/Out


• Anticipation


• Overlapping Action


• Secondary Action


• Arcs


• Pose to Pose/Straight Ahead


• Timing


• Staging


• Exaggeration


• Solid Drawing


• Appeal

During the course our assignments will cover*:

• Flipbooks


• Thaumatropes


• 2D digital animation


• Animating in Procreate on the iPad


• Animating in After Effects (project file provided)


• Stop Motion Animation


• Claymation

* Each assignment could be completed in any of these mediums so there's no need to have a fancy computer, expensive software, or an iPad.

You can complete this course even if you're not good at drawing.

"It's not about what moves, it's about how it moves!"

I will also share my insights working as a professional animator on big movies like Avengers and Ready Player One and how I use these principles every day in my work.

The concepts covered here are not only for beginners but for every animator to apply in their daily work and be a resource for any time you're stuck on how to add more appeal to your animations.