Transform from Beginner to Capable Animator in 21 Days

Completely outclass 99% of top tier school students - WITHOUT spending hours spiraling through confusing YouTube videos, dropping $100,000+ on college tuition, or getting stuck as a “forever beginner” by using the R.A. Framework

What is the 21-Day Beyond Beginner 
Animation Challenge?

The 21-Day challenge is designed to take an absolute Day 1 beginner and give you the skills to become the kind of animator who's capable and on the fast track to going pro in tv, movies, or games.

In 21 days you'll:

  • Completely outclass skills that any 4 year university could teach you with 21 bite-size lessons
  • Avoid the 'YouTube Hamster Wheel ' and the 'University Trap'  with the powerful RA framework
  • Daily quick challenges will give you quick level ups while ensuring you animate consistently
  • Receive 7 free bonuses (7 extra challenges to push your progress even further beyond, the complete Maya for Animators quick training course, a strategic playbook for beyond beginner to pro, and more)
  • Cease being a forever beginner or ball bounce only expert and finally go beyond the basics

Without:

  • Wastefully spending $20,000 to $100,000+ in school tuition 
  • Losing 4 years of your life chasing a college degree no animation job will ever care about
  • Needing 40+ hrs a week just to finish animating 1 lesson
  • Leaving you face palm frustrated, overwhelmed, and ready to quit 

Using the R.A. Framework you'll eliminate ALL of the confusion, frustration, and procrastination that comes from trying to learn animation through YouTube or Universities.  

In fact you'll vastly surpass them and finally move beyond beginner to shortcut your way to pro level animations that will get you hired. 

The 21-Day Beyond Beginner 
Animation Challenge is a SHORTCUT

New animators today start their journey 1 of 2 ways:

  • University / School
  • Or YouTube 

YouTube's self-taught approach on the surface -- seems amazing and straightforward.

After all their is soooo much free valuable knowledge out there -- how could it not be the answer?!

But beginners soon find themselves in the YouTube Hamster Wheel watching video after video without actually animating much and making meaningful progress towards their dream career.

hamster wheel

They say things like: 

  • "I've watched so many tutorials and animated along with a few of them. But eventually I just stop. And I kinda forget to go back."
  • "There's so much you can learn from YouTube but its overwhelming to figure out where to start - let alone the next step. "

As for the other way - Universities - are majorly flawed. 

Many of us are told in school growing up or by our parents:

"go to college, get a degree, get a job"

But that simply isn't true.

The piece of paper doesn't matter anymore. Everyone has a piece of paper.

Its about how good of an animator you are.

How well you can do the job. 

And universities don't deliver on the skill side either.

 In a 4 year degree you'll soon find yourself in the University Trap getting a generalist education.

In other words, you'll be learning a little bit about everything so you don't get really great at anything.

You'll be modeling, rigging, lighting, texturing, etc. as years go by until one day it hits you -- you've spent very little time actually animating. 

Unfortunately MOST college students don't find out about this until they've already signed for student loans - with a lot of pressure to pay bills and no animation jobs on the horizon.

Now after being a college student struggling to become a pro myself, finally making it, animating on movies and games for years, and mentoring animators for almost 10 years --- I've figured out what skills really matter and how to learn them extremely fast.

Faster than you can learn anywhere else because nobody teaches animation with the R.A. Framework.

Its what I've developed over all these years to help animators land jobs and develop higher quality demo reel shots than I ever did. 

Here's how it works:

Here's what you'll discover in the
21-Day Beyond Beginner animation Challenge

Instead of jumping from random video to random video, or learning from university teachers who can't even animate the basics they're teaching you --this challenge lays out exactly what to do day-by-day and step by step.

You'll never have to wonder what you need to get better. 

And what's even better -- its all bite size.

Each lesson is super digestible, with 1 clear challenge everyday that's designed to bring you quick consistent wins at the beginner level.

You'll get 1 brief email, 1 quick 5 min video, and 1 Maya scene with 1 challenge to solve each day

The Daily Challenge Loop:

Daily 2 Min Email

Quick Challenge Video

Maya Scene Challenge

BIG Daily Lvl Up


Here's everything we'll cover in the challenge:

21-Day Beginner Animation Challenge Overview

Day 1

With an overlooked ball animation - Discover the keys to avoiding 'floaty on the moon' animations and creating as much believable gravity as you need to make a character or object feel real. 

Day 4

Animate a Ninja Turtles Van or Wall-E racing forward -- to unravel how eases, overshoots, and overlap completely change how an animation feels with speed / impact.

Day 7

Create an extremely natural looking head turn by mastering a few fundamentals most students are terrible at.

Day 10

Animate a blade of grass blowing in the wind to test your overlap skills at the pro level. And find out how to make it easy with only a 3 keyframe C and S curve solution

Day 14

Dynamic Expressive Poses are the core of every appealing and entertaining animation. Find out how to squeeze every ounce of emotion and physicality from your poses with frequent quick pose tests throughout the challenge.

Day 17

With a bi-pedal walk discover the formula to how hips rotate that would apply to body mechanics in any animation -  skills that will guide you to creating great animation for your entire career -- even without reference.

Day 19

Avoid a shockingly common newbie pitfall when animating feet -- by animating a foot pickup like a pro. Which is helpful since you'll likely animate feet a lot in your career.

Day 21

Prove to yourself that you have developed Beyond Beginner by animating a tricky 180' turn with flawless weight shift, balance, hip rotation, foot placement, arcs, and momentum.

7 Beyond Beginner Animation Bonuses

BONUS 1

Full access to my Maya For Animators course that will show you everything you need to know about Maya in just a few days. Even if your a 100% total newbie. Available Immediately.

BONUS 2

7 extra Beyond Beginner challenges that up the ante on all the skills you've already developed and launch you confidently to the next level

BONUS 3

Essential Tools every pro uses to animate 5x times faster and more intuitively than amateurs. 

BONUS 4

How to create entertaining ideas from scratch, know your animation ideas will work great before you even animate, and finish your animate 2x as fast.

BONUS 5

How to get, edit, and import video reference with ease like a pro. Plus, animating your reference inside of Maya so that it can continue to be immensely helpful - even if your reference camera moves around too much.

BONUS 6

How to create your own personalized practice routine so you can KEEP rapidly improving long after you've completed the challenge -- and start creating demo reel shots that can get you hired.

BONUS 7

Discover a super effective pro workflow that will eliminate 60% of your confusion while animating and ensure its finished at your highest quality -- with 100% confidence that all your timing / spacing will be fine from stepped to spline.


Here's what you get when you join today:

  • Full LIFETIME access to 21 career changing animation challenge lessons ($300 value)
  • 7 Free Bonuses to massively enhance your skills during and after the challenge ($100 value)
  • Constant improvement with Daily reminder emails, bite size challenges, and ready to go Maya scenes ($100 value)
  • Access to our private discord for support, feedback and accountability.
  • Access to all future challenge updates and additions

Total Value: $500

Yours today for only: $29

If you're ready to completely outclass everything a 4 year university could teach you in just 21 days - why wait?

$29

One-time payment - Lifetime Access

100%
MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

It's Backed by an Unbeatable 60-day Money back guarantee

I'm so confident that this will significantly improve your animation skills and get you consistently animating that you get 60 days to see results or its free!

No questions asked.

wHO IS YOUR MENTOR IN THE CHALLENGE?

Hi, I'm Rusty from Rusty Animator and I specialize in mentoring animators to reach their dream job even after years of ineffective schooling.

Senior VFX and Game animator of 5+ years

Mentor in Rusty Animator School

Owner of Rusty Animator

Studio Experience:
MPC
Digital Domain
One Animation
Steamroller


Over the past 10 years I've helped hundreds of thousands of animators through tutorials on my YouTube channel.

And I've mentored thousands of animators through my courses and Rusty Animator School to develop hire-able skills that lead to animator dream jobs in movies, games, and tv.

To get an idea of that check out our animation school's showcase:

What Students have said
about my mentoring And Courses

After Rusty helped me land my first animation job - I found my skill level was at a higher level than the lead animator at the studio.

I was able to finish animations faster, had them looking more appealing, and talk about the animation style better with the creative director.

I blame you Rusty. You did it with the challenging animations we had in Rusty Animator School.

Without you Rusty I wouldn't have made it and gotten hired -- so thank you for everything! You're awesome!

xavier Robertson

I’ve learned from you more than I have from any other individual instructor.

Rusty is here to see you through it, he honestly cares whether we get better or not, and I think he comes across that way immediately.


I put my reel out on a Friday and I got an email on Monday for a Wednesday interview.

Wednesday I got the job. And that's my story.

Theron Chaplin

I used to rely on reference so much. Which makes sense, but the problem is I would just copy the reference.

And with your course you really pushed me to push my poses and get more fluidity and get more looser with my animation - which improved sooo much!

Like I remember with the ice skater...that was the moment I realized Oh my god yes - this is what animation is. You're not just copying the reference, you're pushing it, because thats what gives it pizzazz. Thats what makes it look appealing and entertaining.

Its one of those things you know but you don't realize. But the moment that you realize it - it's like "OMG I found the secret!"

Chanthi Vijayapala

If I had gone to another school instead of Rusty Animator School I wouldn't of had the structure, the focus on body mechanics, and all the things that really matter.

And what made me keep coming back to you is that I saw that you respected the craft. That you knew what mattered the most at each step of the way.

I've seen other people trying to make shots that weren't the best for them at the moment - the best for them to grow.

And I knew that every term that I took with you at Rusty Animator School - each shot would be the best thing for me right now to grow the most.

Smith Ramone

A few Animations MY students have made

who IS THE CHALLENGE RIGHT FOR?

The 21-day Beyond Beginner Animation Challenge is perfect for 4 types of animators:

#1 - The Day 1 Beginner

If you're completely new to animation and especially if you want to see if you enjoy it - this challenge is a perfect fit. 

You'll discover all the essentials and skip all of the fluff. Fluff that YouTube would definitely overwhelm you with. And a university would as well while charging you $10,000 to $100,000+ in tuition.

With the 21 day beyond beginner challenge you'll build a solid foundation right from the start and skyrocket your way to taking on pro level animations.

#2 - The Self Taught YouTuber

When the YouTube spiral has you spinning way to fast - from 1 random video to the next - its totally normally to feel lost on exactly where your at in your journey.

  • What should you be animating and in what order?
  • What skills should you be practicing and what's the best way?
  • Where is you're skill level at exactly?
  • Does this apply to a game, tv, feature, or vfx animator?
  • How long will it take you to get the first job?

Unfortunately, some of the MOST important skills to discover as a beginner or the right strategy's for success are not the kind of videos that get uploaded. Because they're not especially 'cool' or 'viral content'.

#3 - The 'Over Achieving' Student

Let me guess school is either not letting you animate enough...

...Or it's not teaching you enough to make animations as good as they are in your head.

And maybe you're a bit worried about your chances of finding a job -- especially with all the tuition your paying. 

I get it. As this was me - except - I didn't have an another way to learn.

 The 21-Day Beyond Beginner Animation Challenge is exactly what I would have wanted as a college student.

As with the challenge: 

  • you'll focus only on animating (not modeling, rigging, lighting, etc)
  • you'll get clear concise answers on how to raise your animation to a higher level like a pro
  • you'll leave all your classmates and school curriculum in the dust.
  • and you'll pull it off in 21 days for $29.

How's that for effective level ups?

#4 - The 'Gaps-in-my-knowledge post grad' Student

Did you know that 97% of university students and MOST online school students struggle like hell with the fundamentals?

This prevents them from making professional looking animations that would get them animation jobs. 

As you can't make a character move in believable, natural, and cool way if you don't have strong fundamentals. 

And you certainly can't create acting scenes that move an audience to tears or laughter - if you can't make a character move well first. 

If this has been you're experience -- it's likely not you're fault. And has nothing to do with you're lack of effort.

It's the education you were provided. Or lack there of.

The 21-Day Beyond Beginner Animation Challenge will course correct those education mistakes and take you're animation career from a distant dream to back on the fast track.

You'll rebuild your fundamentals. Rewinding and unlearning everything about the 12 principles, weight, momentum, impact, drag, fluidity, posing, or planning that was taught to you wrong.

So you can finally start animating with confidence instead of confusion.

So you can finally start being the artist you've long wanted to be.

Any questions? 

How does the challenge work?

Unlike most courses and schools -- this challenge is NOT designed to hit you over the head with 100's of hours of video tutorials or a super overwhelming  curriculum. 

That just leads to rip your hair out frustration and eventually burn out or procrastination. 

Instead, the challenge is very DIFFERENT

When you join, you’ll be sent just 1 short video every day for 21 days.

Each bite-sized lesson contains an exercise that you can learn in just 30 minutes (of course you can practice longer if you wish).

Every single day, you’ll know exactly what you’re doing to meaningfully improve your animation skill

You won't be ‘guessing’ or drowning with all the random tutorials or exercise lists you'll find online. 

And you won't be overwhelmed by the rushed along curriculums you'd get at a 99% of schools. 

This challenge will give you the quick wins you've been craving so you'll finally want to animate everyday

Its short, highly efficient, and a blast to dive into. 

How long will I have access to the challenge?

You will have lifetime access to the challenge.

Even after you’ve gone through the 28 days of the challenge, you’ll still have access to everything - the videos,  PDFs, and exercises so you can keep improving long after the 3 weeks of the challenge has passed.

In fact, I’d recommend that you actually go through the challenge multiple times; I can almost guarantee you’ll get new insights and level ups every time.

How much time will this take?

With a traditional university you'd likely spend 4 years and a boatload of money and never move beyond beginner.


With YouTube you could spend decades watching tutorials or tips online without any clear direction and that's without even spending any of your own time actually animating.


The 28 day beyond beginner animation challenge is different.


You won't be dumped into a course library with thousands of hours of walkthroughs you'll have to just power through.


Instead everyday you'll get a single bite size video with a single exercise that will get you one step closer to being a capable animator - an animator going pro. 


My goal for you is to spend 30 minutes a day watching and animating through that daily challenge.


None of us have time. We make time for what matters. And no matter how busy anyone is --- you can find 30 minutes a day.  

And what's more -- you'll have already SAVED all the years of LOST time from universities, online workshops, or random YouTube spiraling -- when you see your 28 day transformation from beginner to competent animator.

How good can I actually get in 21 days?

Lets be clear.


The 21 day beyond beginner animation challenge will not make you Professional Working Animator in 21 days.


You wont have a finished demo reel that would cause a studio to immediately send you a job offer.


That's simply not possible. And anyone who says otherwise is likely trying to scam you. 


It's like promising someone in a workout challenge that they'll have 6 pack abs and gain 30lbs of muscle after 21 days. 


However, this animation challenge WILL give you the best possible start (or re-start) for your animation career. 


You'll:

  • Build the habit of animating consistently - so easily that it feels automatic
  • Finally grasp how to create believable weight, impact, fluid motion, and appeal at will
  • Clearly see how each individual beginner animation directly applies to pro level animations.
  • Discover the exact same workflow as the pros, the same tools as the pros, and exactly why it helps.
  • And you'll have such a solid foundation of art skills that you'll confidently skyrocket through more advanced animations after the challenge -- like jumps and parkour shots -- short cutting your way to becoming a pro. 

Will Sony offer you a job on Spider-verse 3 next month?

Unlikely. 

But you'll be in another universe of animation skill compared to university students or self taught YouTubers.

Entertaining characters, drool worthy movement - will feel at your fingertips -- rather than an impossible dream.

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What software is required?

No specific software is required. Any kind of animator with any kind of software / tools can level up massively in this challenge and go beyond beginner. 


Although this challenge does focus on 3D Animation and specifically uses Maya for its animation demos. So using Maya to animate would be most directly applicable. If you can't use Maya -- Blender is free and a perfectly suitable alternative.

And if you're a 2D animator all the artistic level ups still directly apply. Like adjusting your timing and spacing, creating dynamic poses, how to create more believable weight, etc.  All that's different is your using a different pencil - a real one - opposed to a virtual puppet. 

21-Day Beginner Animation Challenge Overview

Day 1

With an overlooked ball animation - Discover the keys to avoiding 'floaty on the moon' animations and creating as much believable gravity as you need to make a character or object feel real. 

Day 4

Animate a Ninja Turtles Van or Wall-E racing forward -- to unravel how eases, overshoots, and overlap completely change how an animation feels with speed / impact.

Day 7

Create an extremely natural looking head turn by mastering a few fundamentals most students are terrible at.

Day 10

Animate a blade of grass blowing in the wind to test your overlap skills at the pro level. And find out how to make it easy with only a 3 keyframe C and S curve solution

Day 14

Dynamic Expressive Poses are the core of every appealing and entertaining animation. Find out how to squeeze every ounce of emotion and physicality from your poses with frequent quick pose tests throughout the challenge.

Day 17

With a bi-pedal walk discover the formula to how hips rotate that would apply to body mechanics in any animation -  skills that will guide you to creating great animation for your entire career -- even without reference.

Day 19

Avoid a shockingly common newbie pitfall when animating feet -- by animating a foot pickup like a pro. Which is helpful since you'll likely animate feet a lot in your career.

Day 21

Prove to yourself that you have developed Beyond Beginner by animating a tricky 180' turn with flawless weight shift, balance, hip rotation, foot placement, arcs, and momentum.

7 Beyond Beginner Animation Bonuses

BONUS 1

Full access to my Maya For Animators course that will show you everything you need to know about Maya in just a few days. Even if your a 100% total newbie. Available Immediately.

BONUS 2

7 extra Beyond Beginner challenges that up the ante on all the skills you've already developed and launch you confidently to the next level

BONUS 3

Essential Tools every pro uses to animate 5x times faster and more intuitively than amateurs. 

BONUS 4

How to create entertaining ideas from scratch, know your animation ideas will work great before you even animate, and finish your animate 2x as fast.

BONUS 5

How to get, edit, and import video reference with ease like a pro. Plus, animating your reference inside of Maya so that it can continue to be immensely helpful - even if your reference camera moves around too much.

BONUS 6

How to create your own personalized practice routine so you can KEEP rapidly improving long after you've completed the challenge -- and start creating demo reel shots that can get you hired.

BONUS 7

Discover a super effective pro workflow that will eliminate 60% of your confusion while animating and ensure its finished at your highest quality -- with 100% confidence that all your timing / spacing will be fine from stepped to spline.

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