Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Anticipation
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and Motion Grapher
About the video: Anticipation
Overview
“This principle helps us guide the viewer's attention to the object that we are going to animate. In this lesson we will learn to recreate this principle and we will see the great difference it makes once we apply it. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Anticipation, 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 this lesson we will be seeing the anticipation. Another of the basic principles of animation. What he basically says is that no movement is very sudden. For example, when we are going to throw a ball We make the arm back first. That is the anticipation, and then we make a main move That is throwing the ball. This allows the person who is watching your animation who focuses his gaze on the object because he is warning He is going to do something. And here we will see how to replicate this effect in After Effects. Let's start Here I made a small adjustment in the compositions. I just put t...”
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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
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3D Animation, Animation, Character Animation

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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