Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Illustration
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and motion grapher
About the video: Illustration
Overview
“In this lesson, we will work on Illustrator creating our character. I will show you how I organize my file and I will give you some tips that will help us to animate later. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Illustration, 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 start building our avatar, since I think it's much simpler focus only on expressions and face of our character before moving on to animate the entire body. I will show you how I work as an illustrator, How do I organize the file so that in After Effects I find it easier to animate up. And well, let's see. In this unit, we will be working in doing something like this. The idea is that we make our own avatar, let's make a little loop, and we can randerear it, and we can use as our profile picture or, I don't know, A video just from an avatar. I am using this Rambo, I'm ...”
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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
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Category
3D & Animation -
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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