让角色鲜活起来。遵循动画的基本原则可以让我们创建与周围环境自然互动的角色，传达真实的情感，让它们说话和走路的方式令人信服。在这个过程中，德莫特展示了如何在开始制作前，先设计一个角色，舞台和故事板。他将研究预期、挤压和拉伸等原则，这些原则为角色提供了重量感和灵活性，他还向您演示了如何制作循环行走与对话。最后，学习如何从开始到结束来制作场景的缩略图，这样您就可以在制作它之前先将动画规划出来。

Bring a cast of characters to life. By following the basics principles of animation, you can build characters that interact naturally with their environments, convey realistic emotion, and talk and walk convincingly. In this course, Dermot O' Connor shows how to design a solid character and stage and storyboard your animation before you begin. He'll examine principles like anticipation and squash and stretch, which provide characters with a sense of weight and flexibility, and show you how to animate walk cycles and dialogue. Finally, learn how to thumbnail scenes from start to finish, so you can sketch out the action before you commit to fully rendering it.

德莫特于1988年进入动画行业，为唐·布鲁斯在爱尔兰的工作室工作了五年。在此期间，他接受了传统手绘动画的培训。90年代中期，他为Capers Entertainment公司和迪斯尼互动工作室制作了CD-ROM互动游戏，参与了101只斑点狗、提蒙和彭彭等项目。2000年，他开始接触Flash，并开始为洛杉矶的华纳兄弟(Warner Bros.)和迪士尼(Disney)以及加拿大的Fatkat animation制作动画。

Dermot O' Connor has practiced hand-drawn and digital animation at Don Bluth, Disney, and Warner Bros.

Dermot entered the animation industry in 1988, working for Don Bluth's studio in Ireland for five years. During that time he was trained in traditional hand-drawn animation. In the mid-90s he directed CD-ROM interactive titles for Creative Capers Entertainment and Disney Interactive studios, working on such projects as 101 Dalmatians and Timon and Pumbaa. He was introduced to Flash in 2000 and began creating animation for Warner Bros. and Disney in Los Angeles, and Fatkat Animation in Canada. Dermot is currently completing his own 30-minute short film, completely animated with Flash.