Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Follow Through and secondary animation
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and motion grapher
About the video: Follow Through and secondary animation
Overview
“Since we have the loop of our walk, we can finish it by adding details that will make it more natural using some of the animation principles we saw earlier. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Follow Through and secondary animation, 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 be seeing the last details of our walk cycle. Using principles of animation like the Follow Through we will give it naturalness to the movement of the head, hair and hands. We will also give a more caricatured feeling to the walk. Finally we will use some expressions to make a loop of our animation and that our walk It can be extended indefinitely. Let's go to work Since we have our character walking, move your legs, up, down, left, and the arms move too. We will have the last details, we will use the principle of Follow Through and other of secondary animations, let'...”
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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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