Learn how to communicate emotion, personality, and storytelling through compelling character poses with Raphaela Burdis in this beginner-friendly character animation course. Discover the fundamentals of emotional expression, visual storytelling, and character acting to create poses that communicate clear intentions, believable emotions, and engaging performances.

Explore the principles of emotional literacy, character intent, and subtext, and learn how to use silhouette, body language, and facial expressions to communicate a character's personality and emotions. Develop your skills in single-character posing, explore character origins and traits, and understand how to create a wider range of expressive performances. You'll also learn how to pose two characters interacting, build convincing physical relationships, and communicate emotion through character contact. Through practical demonstrations and hands-on assignments, you'll develop individual and multi-character poses that bring personality, emotion, and storytelling into your animation work.

About the Instructor: Raphaela Burdis is an Animation Supervisor at Agora Studio, bringing professional animation experience and production knowledge to her teaching. Through this course, she shares practical approaches to character posing, emotional expression, and visual storytelling.