Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Ready, loop!
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and Motion Grapher
About the video: Ready, loop!
Overview
“With the rig ready we will do an "Idle animation" or inactive animation, which will be our base animation.”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Ready, loop!, 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 that we have our Rig, We can start to animate our character. In this lesson I will explain how to make an inactive animation, basically like those animations in video games where the character expects you to move it, or is jumping, The character is just breathing so he is not still. This animation will serve as a template with which later we will make more complex animations. Let's start. What I'm going to do first is duplicate the composition Well, we have the original in case something weird happens, We have the original backup. That is going to put "Unit 6, lesson 5, the base animati...”
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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
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Category
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Areas
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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