Basics of Character Animation with After Effects

Overview

“Here we will learn to make a simple rig for our character using Nulls, Expressions, Parenting and Track Mattes. ”

In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Rigging, 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 putting together the character's Rig. The Rig is a series of controllers to which we connect the layers we made in Illustrator to simulate a movement of the character. Well, let's start. Basically, the Rig is to create a series of controls that allow us to control our character. For example, here I have this one that controls where you turn, This is going to help us to animate it later. To create these controls, a lot is to match expressions. And this script is called "Duik Bassel". It’s a free script, and we need to install it on our computer. Now I will explain ...”

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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects

• Level: Beginner
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• 8 units
• 37 lessons (5h 48m)
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• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects

• Areas

  3D Animation, Animation, Character Animation