Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
It's alive - Part 2
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and Motion Grapher
About the video: It's alive - Part 2
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In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: It's alive - Part 2, 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
“Now what I want to do is that, in the end, make the expression we have seen as if he were angry, as affirming or as if he were ready to attack. It will be a movement of the head upwards and then downwards. Since we are in the second four and a half, or four with twelve "frames", we are going to animate the "slider". We make a "keyframe". We advance four "frames". How I want the character move the top head down, first I take it up to give it anticipation. We advance another four "frames". I'm going to take it further from where I want it to finish its expression, which is down, and we're goi...”
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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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