Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Position
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and motion grapher
About the video: Position
Overview
“In this lesson, we will create our first composition, we will define its duration and format, and we will make the first position animation. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Position, which is part of the Domestika online course: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects. Learn to bring your characters to life and showcase their true personality.
Partial transcription of the video
“In that lesson we will create our first composition. We will define its duration, its format, and after that, we will make a very basic animation about position and about the importance of Anchor Point When making our animations. We'll see. We have the organized file, let's select Position layer, and the first fund, "Background 1", we select position layer, and with Ctrl command pressed, and select the second layer, Select us the After Effects. We make a recomposition with this, we go to Layer + Pre-compose, we can press comand Shift + C. when we give, the After Effects opens this window, w...”
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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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