Animated Micro-Stories with After Effects

Overview

“In this lesson we will plan the basic actions that we want to accompany our characters taking into account their style, personality and some principles of animation.”

In this video lesson Sociedad Fantasma addresses the topic: Plan the animation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Micro-Stories with After Effects. Learn the secrets to storytelling, character design, and motion graphics.

Partial transcription of the video

“Hello. i'm Rupit. i animate at Sociedad Fantasma and I'll teach you how to rig and animate your character. The first part involves finding references based on the illustration and storyboard. Step Lizzy Peach. This part is crucial as it will help us give fluidity to our character's movement. In this lesson. we'll plan our character's movement and direction. how we want our character to move. This process isn't strictly essential. but like sketching. it's beneficial to have a clear sense of our animation's direction. Not entirely. but at least a basic concept. If it's a square. for instance....”

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Course summary for: Animated Micro-Stories with After Effects

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (403)
• 10904 students
• 5 units
• 26 lessons (5h 27m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animation, Character Design, Motion Graphics, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Video Editing