Dynamic Animation with 2D and 3D Illustration
Starting 2D Animation: Building Your Character in After Effects 2
A course by Advntr Studio , Animation Studio
About the video: Starting 2D Animation: Building Your Character in After Effects 2
Overview
“Let's continue to work on our character's animation, makinge sure all moving parts are parented to their respective elements.”
In this video lesson Advntr Studio addresses the topic: Starting 2D Animation: Building Your Character in After Effects 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dynamic Animation with 2D and 3D Illustration. Learn to create original animations by combining different formats of digital illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“Starting 2D Animation: Building Your Character in After Effects After you have placed all of your anchor points, now let's talk about parenting. So we just want to make sure that we're parenting this segment from the very tip all the way down to the base. For example, this is the very tip of this index. What we want to do is make sure we're parenting it to Index_01. And that Index_01 is parented to the Palm, so you're basically, I like to think of it as you're starting from the outside and you're going in, so then the palm will be parented to the wrist, forearm to the bicep or top part of t...”
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Course summary for: Dynamic Animation with 2D and 3D Illustration
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Category
3D & Animation, Illustration -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D -
Areas
2D Animation, 3D, 3D Animation, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Advntr Studio
A course by Advntr Studio
After graduating from Parsons School of Design in New York City, Willie and Jill Russell started working freelance in their respective disciplines. Willie worked with motion and production studios, and Jill with marketing agencies. After collaborating on various projects, clients began requesting the married duo as a team. Thus, in 2014, Brooklyn-based Advntr Studio was born.
Willie has worked with renowned animation studios like Buck, Imaginary Forces, Perception, Ready Set Rocket, First Born, and more. Jill has freelanced for agencies such as AKQA, Havas Worldwide, HUGE, Method, and Loyal Kaspar. Together, they've collaborated for brands like Google, Dell, JP Morgan, Verizon, and Marvel Studios.
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