Express Animation for Social Media with After Effects
Rig of arms with the "Beam" effect
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and Motion Grapher
About the video: Rig of arms with the "Beam" effect
Overview
“We will use the "Beam" effect and some simple expressions to put arms to our character. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Rig of arms with the "Beam" effect, which is part of the Domestika online course: Express Animation for Social Media with After Effects. Learn a quick and easy way to create animations.
Partial transcription of the video
“Arm rig with the "Beam" effect A very easy way to create arms in After Effects is using the Beam effect. In this lesson we will use it to create our arms. Let's give it. In this lesson we will see how to create the arms of the character and for that we are going to use an effect called Beam. We are going to start with a new layer. we go to Layer, New, Solid or we can press Command + Y and this dialogue will open up for us. We are going to put "Arm" on his left arm. Let's make it the size of the composition and click OK. And we're going to go here to Effects and Presets and we write the word...”
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Course summary for: Express Animation for Social Media with After Effects
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Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
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2D Animation, Animation, Character Animation, Motion Graphics, Social Media, Social Media Design, Storyboard, YouTube Marketing
Yimbo Escárrega
A course by Yimbo Escárrega
Yimbo is a designer and motion grapher from Tijuana who has more than a decade of experience in animation. In 2007, he founded Black Dog studio where he worked with companies like Aeroméxico, Sprite, adidas, and Sony Vaio. He then switched roles to animation lead at Pictoline in 2015, adding motion to stories that were shared daily on social media. The experience he gained during his time there gave him the ability to create animation at the speed of light.
Yimbo currently works as a freelancer and regularly collaborates on different projects and with other designers like Eraboy and Charles Glaubitz.
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