2D Animation: Animate Monsters & Aliens
33mBeginner2017-01-30
Authors

Dermot O' Connor
Animator for Disney and Don Bluth
Course details
Animating a convincing Dracula or zombie involves many of the classic principles of animation; however, in order to properly spook your audience, you'll often want to make your creatures move in creepy or unnatural ways. In this course, Dermot O'Connor shares 2D animation techniques for making monsters, aliens, and other supernatural subjects come to life. Dermot explains how to deal with muscular creatures, animate jerky creatures, and make eerily smooth movements. He illustrates how to apply each technique by drawing familiar monsters like ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and more.
Learning objectives
Animating mummies, werewolves, and trolls
Animating jerky movements of zombies and elves
Animating smooth movements
Learning objectives
Animating mummies, werewolves, and trolls
Animating jerky movements of zombies and elves
Animating smooth movements
Skills covered
2D AnimationAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Handout
1. Flying Creatures
- 03 - Anatomy
- 04 - Small birds
- 05 - Medium to large-sized birds
- 06 - Tiny birds
- 07 - Insects
- 08 - Dragons
Conclusion
- 09 - Next steps