What you’ll learn
- Rig front and 3/4th angle characters for smooth animation using layers and symbols in Adobe Animate.
- Animate realistic eye blinks, lip sync, facial expressions, and hand gestures to add life to characters.
- Create professional walk and run cycles in both profile and 3/4th views with correct timing and spacing.
- Design attitude walks and runs (happy, sad, angry, etc.) to express emotions through body movement.
- Animate realistic animal walks, and runs including horse, dog, cat, bear, camel, kangaroo, and more.
Bring your characters to life with expressive movement and professional animation techniques in “Master 2D Character Animation in Adobe Animate.” This in-depth course is designed for aspiring animators, students, and creative professionals who want to learn how to animate characters from scratch using Adobe Animate.
Starting with the basics, you’ll learn how to dissect and rig characters in both front and 3/4th views, draw lips and facial expressions, and prepare them for animation. You’ll then move on to essential animation skills—eye blinks, lip syncing with audio, hand gestures, facial expressions, and head turns—to add real life and emotion to your characters.
Master movement with dedicated sections on walk cycles, run cycles, and bone tool rigging. You’ll begin with standard side and 3/4th walks and runs, then dive deep into attitude walks and runs—Happy, Sad, Angry, Sneak, Dreamy, Smug, and Scared—in both profile and 3/4th views, learning how emotion influences body mechanics and timing.
The course finishes strong with a dynamic section on animal locomotion, where you’ll animate walks, trots, gallops, and runs of animals like horses, dogs, cats, camels, bears, kangaroos, and mice.
Each tutorial includes step-by-step demonstrations, practice files, and assignments to help you apply what you’ve learned. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with the skills to animate any 2D character confidently—whether for games, films, or your own creative projects.
If you’re ready to take your animation skills to the next level, enroll now and start animating like a pro in Adobe Animate!
Who this course is for:
- Beginner animators with basic Animate skills
- Animation students
- Freelance animators
- Motion graphic designers
- Game developers
- YouTube content creators
- Comic and storyboard artists
- Educators teaching animation
- Hobbyists passionate about 2D animation
