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 I will show you the character I made and how I organized my file in Photoshop so that it is ready to be animated. ”
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
“Now we will move on to something a little more complicated, The full body character. We will start by organizing our file in Photoshop then pass it to AfterEffects and start animating. In this unit, we will start putting together our full character With the avatar we made. Let's start with our character. Here I have the sketch. What I want to do with this character in this unit is to make a static animation, you can call it, those animations where the character is still and can serve us as a kind of temper for that structure that we are going to create, to be able to make other animations, ...”
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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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