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"Cheap" animation course?

Post by Hirazi Blue » 25 Feb 2015, 22:22

As online courses like Animation Mentor and Animschool are financially completely and utterly out of my reach, sadly, I was hoping some of you could recommend a good course/book/video series on 3D animation, more or less starting out with the famous bouncing ball and ending with the fun that is character animation. Software agnostic would be nice, at this point even Maya related would be welcomed. Mind, it doesn’t have to be free, it just has to be realistically affordable (and I decide what’s realistic).
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Post by EricTRocks » 26 Feb 2015, 01:04

Keith Lango's stuff is gold regardless of when it was from $20:
https://keithlango.com/animationclinic/cart/
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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by Hirazi Blue » 26 Feb 2015, 10:56

That's a great suggestion (and just in time, considering he shuts down operations on March 1.)
Just ordered it, awaiting download link.

Many, many thanks for the suggestion! :-bd
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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by Firebird » 26 Feb 2015, 11:09

Thanks for the tip
19$ was a no-brainer for the amount of material you get.

Still downloading :D

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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by azurecgi » 27 Feb 2015, 11:43

I just got in on this action!

Absolutely a no-brainer for $19 :)

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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by MauricioPC » 27 Feb 2015, 13:44

I guess you could take a look at Blender.

There's this and some other courses at Blender Cookie.

http://cgcookie.com/blender/cgc-courses/piero/

http://cgcookie.com/blender/cgc-courses ... n-toolkit/

Blender Cookie is $18 a month, but you could sign in for a month and download this two courses.

http://www.bloopanimation.com

I like this guy site. it's for the very beginner, but he has some BHS on making an animated short film and he's finishing a Blender Animation course as well.

And ... not on the topic exactly, but some guys in Argentina are making a indie feature animation film.

http://www.animationmagazine.net/featur ... 0410156250

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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by julius » 28 Feb 2015, 20:00

when did you received your download links ? I bought Keith Lango's stuff this morning, but I didn't received anything yet.

Thanks

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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by azurecgi » 28 Feb 2015, 20:49

It took around an hour for my email to arrive.

I'm not sure if it's fully automated or whether someone (Keith?) sends the email 'manually'

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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by Hirazi Blue » 28 Feb 2015, 21:03

Send him a follow-up mail probably at service@animationclinic.com (that's where I sent mine).
As my own download links hadn't arrived after a couple of hours, I got him to manually intervene
- take the time difference into account, while waiting -
and basically he admitted his online store system (and the automatic sending of links)
isn't functioning all that well (any more, one assumes).
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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by julius » 01 Mar 2015, 00:02

thanks, it's ok now, I got them

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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by Sil3 » 04 Mar 2015, 10:02

Keith Lango stuff is good but personally I think you will get more out of it if you already have a certain experience, if you are a total beginner I recommend Jason Ryan tutorials, that start just like you want, basics, intermediate and advanced.


http://www.jasonryananimation.com/tutorials.html



He has some free ones (Ramp Up) so you can check the style of teaching:


http://www.jasonryananimation.com/ramp- ... rials.html




The way he starts by using a 2D approach is complete software agnostic as you want, he is teaching you the principles and its faster for him to block the major poses that way, then he uses what he did as a reference to start placing the poses in 3D and build from there.


As an advise, forget Digital Tutors kinda tutorials, Jason and Keith are very experienced animators that will teach you a lot more in one lesson that any DT How to do a Walk/Run/Fight/ Blabla whatever will do.

First thing you will notice when you start watching any of Jason or Keith stuff is the passion that they put on teaching.



I can also recommend another set of tutorials by Ken Fountain, another very experienced animator, and they are very very cheap and will teach you a lot, he dives into a more depth approach on the why we do things instead of just moving around, and he is a GREAT teacher as well:

http://splatfrog.com/



Happy learning and animation although seems easy its not, its very very hard, moving things is one thing, give life to things is another matter and the more you know the more you know you don't know that much so evolving is a constant ;)

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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by Hirazi Blue » 04 Mar 2015, 14:58

Thanks. That indeed looks like a great suggestion.
Now, who am i going to rob tonight at gunpoint?
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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by Hirazi Blue » 05 Mar 2015, 11:10

So how would you guys rate Softimage Animation Principles on cmivfx as a basic introduction?
Since Softimage's EOL they're practically giving their Softimage training away, as this only costs $9.95,
which qualifies as "cheap" even from my "starving" perspective.
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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by MauricioPC » 09 Mar 2015, 21:41



Cool opinion about Blender.

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Re: "Cheap" animation course?

Post by thorsnuts » 19 Aug 2015, 06:12

hello

You could always try ianimate.net. Jason Ryan is a top notch animator and offers classes... I don't know how "realistically affordable" it is :D but you could shoot them an email and find out. Has to be much cheaper than these other schools you mention.

worth a shot, good luck..

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