Adobe After Effects for Character Animation

Overview

“During this second part of the lesson we will use the technique of matching the timing. We will give each element its own treatment so that our animation flows better and we achieve a subtle and natural head turn.”

In this video lesson Facundo López addresses the topic: PRACTICE: Head turn 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Start Animating. Go from the planning to action and animate in a convincing and expressive way.

Partial transcription of the video

“Let's work on the nose. We return to the same technique of matching timing. In this case. we can delete these keyframes that we won't animate. You'll see each element has its own treatment. We've matched the timing. and you'll see how well it aligns. The only thing that might be good in the case of The Nose. as I say. is that each element has its treatment. It's that the trajectory isn't linear. but instead. it has a slight arc. So let's give it a curve. so it also follows the head's three-dimensional shape. It's still quite subtle. Let's proceed with the mouth now and see how it goes. We'l...”

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Course summary for: Course 4: Start Animating

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