Hi everyone. You know me. My name is Dan Scott. Uh, today in this course I am here to introduce you to Lucas Ridley. Hey Lucas. Hey Dan.
Now Lucas is a friend of mine. He is also a professional animator. He's worked on amazing things like the Avengers movie, Aladdin movie. Uh, best of All, he is also an amazing instructor and he's agreed to join us here at Bring Your Own Laptop, to teach you and me the principles of animation. And before Lucas gets started, I just wanna remind you if there are some really cool, uh, assignments in this course, and I would love for you when you do them to share them with us on either our bring your Laptop Facebook group or LinkedIn group, or Tag Me or Lucas here in our social medias. When you upload them, uh, links to all of those will be below this video here.
Uh, yeah. So take it away. Lucas. It's good to see you buddy, but really you need to get started. Close the split screen. Get working.
Uh, can you close it? Oh, okay. Then I'm not above closing a split screen. Ready? Go on. He's really nice.
You are really gonna like him. I like him. You are gonna like him. It's a great course. Let's get started. You ready?
3, 2, 1. Let's learn to animate. Welcome to this class, principles of Animation, the Art of Appealing Motion for Beginners. My name is Lucas Ridley, and I'll be your instructor. I've been a professional animator for the last 10 years working on movies like Disney's, Aladdin, Avengers, infinity War, ready Player One, and video games like The Last of Us part two. The animation principles should never be learned in the vacuum of a single software.
When you're learning animation, it's important to understand the universal nature of these principles, that they can be applied to any animation medium. And so that's how we're gonna learn them in this course. We're gonna be taking a variety of animation mediums to help learn and demonstrate these principles. This course is set up so that after each lesson, there's an assignment and demonstration so that you can see these principles put into action right after you learn them. This course is for anyone who's new to animation and for also those self-taught animators out there who might have a few knowledge gaps. They need help connecting a few dots on.
You don't need any fancy software or you don't need to be great at drawing to take this course. This course was created for everyone to begin their journey as an animator so you can follow along with things you can find around your house. As long as you have a cell phone, something you can take pictures with, you can start animating and I will show you how in this course. Thanks for watching and I look forward to seeing you in class.