Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Course final project
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and motion grapher
About the final project for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Your own animated character
“I hope that throughout the course you have fulfilled the different tasks and, with this, you have your own animated character. Thank you for purchasing this course, I hope you liked it. Do not forget to share your final project. See you in the forum! Yimbo ”
Partial transcription of the video
“I will give you a brief summary of what we saw in the course. We start by heating in After Effects With our first project. We import the files And we organize them. We did animation exercises with the basic parameters of After Effects: position, rotation, scale and opacity. We learned to take a "render" and we saw recommendations of different types of formats. We did another exercise where we applied the principles of animation, so they look more natural. We start with the principle of Easy In, Easy Out. It makes our emotions less robotic. From there, we go to the anticipation, which helps ...”
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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects -
Areas
3D Animation, Animation, Character Animation

Yimbo Escárrega
A course by Yimbo Escárrega
Yimbo is a graphic and motion designer from Tijuana who has vast professional experience in the field of 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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