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Animating With Character - Walk Cycles

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Animate a character walk cycle in After Effects: build contact, passing and up-and-down poses, test walk speed, fix knee pops, add overlap and ease motion.

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• 1 hour 44 minutes
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Create a Retro City Loop in Cinema 4D & After Effects

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Build a looping retro city animation in Cinema 4D: model the scene, add retro lighting and multi-pass renders, then finish with post effects in After Effects.

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• 1 hour 29 minutes
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Animation Principles In Motion Design: Secrets of Great Motion Graphics

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Apply animation principles to motion graphics: master timing and spacing, value and speed graphs, anticipation, overshoot, squash and stretch, and follow through across 12 After Effects projects.

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• 5 hours 9 minutes
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Create a Hand-Drawn . GIF in Adobe Photoshop

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Animate hand-drawn characters and lettering in Photoshop, from rough test runs through frame timing to exporting finished GIFs and videos.

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• 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Watercolor Basics 2: Water Control

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Control water in watercolor painting: compare too much, too little, and just-right water to see how each affects drying time and results on 140 lb paper.

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• 11 minutes
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Micro-Budget Filmmaking: Screenwriting

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Write a screenplay for micro-budget productions: narrow ideas into one achievable concept, develop compelling characters, outline with three-act structure, and apply screenplay formatting.

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• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Drawing Skulls - Realistic, Stylized, & Downright Silly

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Draw skulls from accurate front and profile proportions, then stylize them into monoline, sugar skull, and silly cartoon versions with pencil and paper.

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• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How to Get Published: A Step-by-Step Guide to Submitting Your Writing

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Learn to submit your writing for publication: choose your strongest pieces, research magazines and literary journals, format a cover letter and bio, and handle rejections.

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• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Copywriting for Beginners: Essential Skills for Persuasive Marketing

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Write persuasive marketing copy: connect with your reader, pick the right template, write clearly and concisely, use sensory language, and link features to benefits.

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• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Watercolor Winter - Lets paint a snowy winter night

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Paint a snowy winter night lit by northern lights in watercolor: mix a color palette, pencil sketch the scene, wash the sky, add cabin, trees and snow.

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• 1 hour 20 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Music Theory: Exploring Sound, Rhythm, and Melody on the MIDI Grid

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Learn music theory on the MIDI grid instead of staves: scales, intervals, triads and seventh chords, meters, voice leading, then compose a 30-60 second track.

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• 5 hours 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Figure Drawing Foundations | Proportions

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Draw comic book characters in proportion: heroic proportions, head proportions, figures at different ages and archetypes, plus front and side male and female figure workshops.

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• 5 hours 37 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

How To Draw Comics - Anatomy

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Draw the human figure for comics: build a simplified skeleton, then torso, back, legs, shoulders, arms, hands and feet, plus rendering, perspective, clothing and turnarounds.

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• 7 hours 11 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Connecting Things in Watercolor

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Learn to connect elements in watercolor: bind wet areas during a layer wash and merge regions of matching tone into single shapes, through drawing and three color layers.

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• 27 minutes
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Patterns & Pattern Brushes in Procreate 5X - A Graphic Design for Lunch™ Class

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Learn to create seamless repeating patterns and turn them into custom pattern brushes in Procreate 5X for use in digital artwork.

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• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available