Perhaps the most effective method to contact us is through my Facebook account. I visit Facebook almost every day, will immediately see your message and we will be able to communicate.  Without any embarrassment contact me with any questions related to animation, charity and animation for charity. We are ready to consider various forms of cooperation. You can also email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or ask your question right here on the website in the comments or in the guest book.

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Our Free Udemy Courses

    Let me to present to you our our free courses on Udemy. These are our latest and most advanced lessons, in which we used all the experience gained in the creation of previous classes. At the moment we have published two courses: “Basic Animation in Adobe After Effects” and “Animation in After Effects – Project oriented course”.

   In the first course you will learn the most basic principles of animation in Adobe After Effects. The second course is a practical course dedicated to the creation of cartoons. It consists of several projects with different characters. Now it has characters in South Park style, as well as Winnie the Pooh and his friends. But next there will be other projects with other heroes. You can even offer your projects, and we will be happy to help you with their implementation.

   For our second course I set a symbolic price $30. But if you cannot pay such a sum and you still want to make cartoons with us - write to me, and we will discuss how you can join our project for free.

   Welcome to our free courses on Udemy!

   Link to Firsr Course https://www.udemy.com/course/basic-animation-in-adobe-after-effects/?referralCode=FDFD553084EB81BB061D

   Link to Second Course https://www.udemy.com/course/animation-in-after-effects-project-oriented-course/?referralCode=F82142FBC7DB95B56833

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Video Lessons of Eric Cartman

   Dear friends! If you are looking for a simple and effective way to create your own cartoons - then this class is exactly what you need! We are glad to present to you a unique training course on Adobe After Effects from the studio General-Animation. The course is designed for those who want to learn the basic principles of the program Adobe After Effects and learn how to make in it funny cartoons.

   The course consists of short video lessons in which funny cartoon characters in easy and comprehensible form will tell you about the interface of the program, introduce the project panel and timeline, show how import footages and export finished video. You’ll complete training exercises and in the end will be able to create your own cartoon. This method of learning is so effective that, as shows practice, using it even the children of 10-12 years old can learn how to make cartoons.

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 Musical Project Video Lessons

   I am pleased to present to you our musical class on SkillShare. In this class we will create animated music videos Using Adobe After Effects. I will show you in all details step-by-step the process of creating of funny cartoon man for animation. We will teach this man to move his arms and legs, blink, speak, and give him stylish clothes. In between I'll show you how you can use this character so that he tells about your website, your class on Skillshare or your channel on YouTube. And in the end we will give him some cool musical instrument and teach him to play this instrument. 

 Creating these lessons, I was counting that you already have some familiarity with the basic principles of working in After Effects. But even if you do not have the slightest idea of how to work in After Effects - this is not such a big problem. In this case, you can simply learn our first class with Eric Cartman - Basic Animation in Adobe After Effects, and will get all the necessary knowledge for further work.

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 Video Lessons 2017 - Dedicated the Year of the Rooster

   In the begining of 2017 year I started a new series of video lessons, in which will be even more funny cartoons, more music and dances. We are going to study animation in After Effects, and at the same time create our own cartoon show! You all will be participants of our show – created by you training animated clips we’ll include in our final cartoon ballet. And as we start our project in the year a rooster, I decided to name it a Chicken Lake, with some claim on classic.

   And so, we offer you the first lesson from our new series of video lessons on animation in Adobe After Effects: Chicken Lake Ballet - First Act. In this lesson we will take a look at the program interface and teach a chicken to perform the simplest movements.

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Video Lessons on Web Design

  We are making not just a video lessons. Each our lesson is a single episode of our General-Animation Show. Something like this - It is our First lesson on Web Design: Installing WAMP and Joomla

   Download to your computer distributive of Adobe After Effects 7.0 (Download link) and unpack. You will get a folder “Adobe.After.Effects.v7.0.Pro”.

   Before you begin to install After Effects, you need to generate a serial number for it: Run the keygen located in the “Crack” subdirectory of “Adobe.After.Effects.v7.0.Pro” folder. In the top selection box, select “Adobe After Effects 7.0 Professional”. Generate a serial number, which you need for installation. (You can install program as “Trial version”, but there can be problems with activation. It is better to install entering serial number).

   Now you can proceed directly to the installation of After Effects: Go to the folder “Adobe.After.Effects.v7.0.Pro” and run Setup. Follow the instructions. When the program asks for serial number, use the one that you generated using keygen.

   After installation, when you first start the program, it needs to be activated. To do this, click in the activation window "Other activation options". In the window that opens, choose the method of activation "Other the telephone". Click OK. Opens window of activation by phone. Copy in it Activation Number and insert it into Keegan Request Code box. Generate Answer Code. This is you code for activation. Insert it into the empty boxes and click Activate.

   Done.

   Note: Some antiviruses want to kill Crack. You have to do something to solve this problem.

   Known bugs:  On some systems After Effects 7 have shown strange bug - Import window refuses to work properly. E.e. you want to import any files, try to open the Import window, but instead the program closes with an error message. This bag is easy to get around – you can work not using import window at all, it is enough to use instead The Windows window. Just find the files you need in Windows window and mouse drag them directly on the project panel of After Effects.

   Let's get acquainted!

   Hello my dear friends! If you first time visit our site, let me congratulate you, because not so often in our hectic life happen events that really could change our life. But today is The Event - Your first visit to the site general-animation.com. You ask me – why this event is so special? The fact is that general-animation.com is not just a website - it's a big complex project with his own philosophy and, dare I say it, even something like a religion.

   Try to answer one simple question: what is the Internet for you? Unfortunately, statistics show that the majority of users go online just to somehow kill time: to see kittens and puppies, light erotica or outright porn, listen to music, watch a movie, play a fairly meaningless games, at best look for some information. All this is quite nice and innocent occupation, but the problem is that at this very moment, somewhere in the Middle East, women and children are dying under the ruins of their homes, turned into rubble by raids of military aviation. In Africa and Southeast Asia, people die every day from hunger and sheer genocide. And a lot of other outrages things happening in the world. And we admire the kittens playing with funny toys and love at the same time to speculate about brotherly love ... Well, what do you think - we really deserve the title of intelligent beings?

   No, my friends - on our website you will not find cute frolicking animals. For us, the Internet is primarily a tool in the battle for better future of mankind. And the main weapon in this struggle is knowledge. Know the truth - and the truth shall make you free. Constant accumulation of knowledge and usage them to make our world the better place to live - is the main meaning of our life as rational beings. And our site designed to help you in this sublime purpose. For training we use the video lessons with elements of animation that makes easy the learning of the most difficult disciplines: computer graphics and design, animation, video editing and special effects, web design, learning foreign languages, programming, robotics, space research - there is no limit to our ambitions!

 

   All our training series are built in such a way that you can, quickly have learned the basics of the subject, go to solving some practical tasks: make your own cartoon or a website, a channel on YouTube with original content, exciting game for mobile devices, and many more. We invite you, friends, together on a journey in search of new knowledge that can make our lives interesting and meaningful. And you can begin this journey with the first of our series of video lessons dedicated to the creation of the animation in the program Adobe After Effects. In these lessons, funny cartoon characters will acquaint you with the program Adobe After Effects starting with the basics, and tell how using this program you can create your own cartoons. These lessons have been made several years ago for After Effects 7 and during that time managed to become a true classic of the genre by giving a ticket to the lives of several generations of animators.

 

   But thanks to the fact that Adobe in their products preserves the continuity of the interface and basic components, these lessons have not lost their relevance. All basic concepts contained therein are true for later After Effects, and all shown method of animation you can replicate using even the most modern version of the Adobe After Effects.