Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Animating the legs
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and motion grapher
About the video: Animating the legs
Overview
“Since we have the pace of our walk, we animate the legs of the character to simulate the steps he will take. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Animating the legs, 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 follow with the walking cycle of our character. Now we will pass to animate the legs, which will give more fluidity to the movement. We are going to work. Now that we have the main rhythm of our character, we are going to animate the legs. For that I'm going to select the composition of the torso, I'm going to duplicate it, just in case we need return to this, there we have it. Let's put Unit 7, Lesson 2, Legs. I'm going to bring these references just to have it here as a reference. I'm going to put it up here. I'm going to make it smaller. not necessary, and I half ...”
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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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