Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Final animation
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and motion grapher
About the video: Final animation
Overview
“Since we have our 4 completed exercises, we will put them together in a final composition, to finish with our video. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Final animation, 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
“Well, since we have our four animations, it would be nice to put them all together in one composition and this is what we are going to do in this lesson Also, let's see a small expression which is basically code in After Effects and that will help us to make loops of the animations, which will allow us to extend our video to the duration that we want. Good? OK lets start. What we need to do now is to accommodate these four within it. For that we need to make the compositions smaller. Select all four, press the S key to open the scale parameter and I will change the size to 50%. That way, I'...”
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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
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Category
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Software
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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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