15 Best Animation Courses for Beginners
We compared 15 Animation courses currently listed on Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $19.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Udemy
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Udemy, matched to "animation" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Stop Motion Animation for Beginners
In this engaging course on stop motion animation, you'll learn to create animations using everyday items from around your home. No prior experience is required, and all you need is a smartphone and a free app. You'll wor...
$99.99listed price -
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Introduction To Story Boarding
This course is about learning the craft of storyboarding for animation artists, filmmakers, game design artists, graphic designers and people interested in learning how the storyboarding process affects the film, game an...
$19.99listed price -
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Unreal Engine 4 - The Absolute Beginner's Guide
Unreal Engine Complete Beginners Course is the perfect solution for absolute beginners to learn the leading industry standard engine for creating games, animations, television shows and illustrations! In this course we w...
$39.99listed price -
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Adobe After Effects For Beginners - VFX & Motion Graphics
New to Adobe After Effects? This 8 part beginner course will kick start your skills to add cool motion graphics & visual effects to your own film projects! And, best of all, you won't get bored out of your skull! Ful...
$19.99listed price -
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Learn Basics Of Adobe After Effects CC for Beginners
Welcome to the “Adobe After Effects - The Beginner's Basics” course.Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems and used in the post-production...
$199.99listed price -
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Scratch 3.0 Coding Course: For Kids, Beginners, & Educators
"In this engaging course, discover the world of programming and coding through the exciting lens of Scratch. Developed by MIT, Scratch transforms programming into an enjoyable adventure, making it feel like a game.Our ph...
$29.99listed price -
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LUMION & Complete training from beginner to expert!
In this LUMION course we will start from an initiation level to finish finishing the course by mastering the program at an expert level. And this is not just words. We will do it. I have put all my effort and knowle...
$99.99listed price -
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Java Swing (GUI) Programming: From Beginner to Expert
This course teaches you how to create desktop and web-based applications using Java Swing, Java's built-in user interface toolkit. Each tutorial is fairly self-contained; but we'll also build two complete appli...
$34.99listed price -
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Blender Beginners Course | Make Stylized House in Blender
Hello there! Welcome to the Your First Day in Blender course. This comprehensive course is designed for beginners with no prior 3D experience. You'll learn how to create an entire stylized scene from scratch using Blende...
$19.99listed price -
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Unreal Engine 5 for Beginners - Create your first game
So you want to learn Unreal Engine 5...Welcome to this course, where you step-by-step will be learning a lot! From basic things such as projects, actors, components to animation and blueprints.I hate when people just sho...
$54.99listed price -
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Blender 4 for Complete Beginners
Hello and welcome everyone to “Blender 4 For Complete Beginners”. The perfect course for anyone looking to get started with Blender as a complete beginner.With over 21 hours of packed content, this course will guide you...
$19.99listed price -
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After Effects Beginner - Typography Reveal in After Effects
In this course I want to guide you through a nice technique for making a modern & trendy typography project in After Effects which you can easily learn for Yourself and replicate. You will learn how to form, build and re...
$94.99listed price -
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Krita for Beginners
Many people want to get started on digital art, but they may feel overwhelmed or lack confidence because they don't know where to start or feel uncertain if they want to buy Photoshop or the whole Creative Cloud.With Kri...
$39.99listed price -
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Mastering Microsoft PowerPoint : Beginner To Expert
Embark on a transformative journey from novice to expert with our comprehensive course, "Microsoft PowerPoint - Beginner To Expert." Uncover the secrets of PowerPoint proficiency and elevate your presentation game. Here'...
$39.99listed price -
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Photoshop for Beginners – Learn by Doing
A complete Adobe Photoshop CC course for beginners that will teach you all the Fundamentals of Photoshop by practicing and doing exercises.All you need to start this course is the Adobe Photoshop software and nothing els...
$79.99listed price
Best Animation Courses for Beginners compared
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What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $39.99 — a spread of $180.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
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