Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Animating the torso
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and motion grapher
About the video: Animating the torso
Overview
“In this lesson we will start animating the torso of our character, which will give us the pace of the walk, in addition to its weight and speed. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Animating the torso, 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
“Well, now we will do something a little more complicated. A Walk Cycle or walking cycle. In that case, we will start by animating our character's torso That is what will give us the rhythm of the walk. In addition, we will see some things like how to give weight and speed to our character. Well, let's start. Since we have our Rik as a base and we learned how we can animate it. We will move on to a walking cycle. Basically what a walking cycle is ... Right now I'm going to show you something I have. We will try to achieve something similar to this. Basically a walking cycle is a loop of a wa...”
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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 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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