Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Setting the scene
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and motion grapher
About the video: Setting the scene
Overview
“Here we will see what elements we can reuse and create what we lack. We will also put together our final composition. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Setting the scene, 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 block the scene, we will realize what elements we created in previous lessons They can serve us for our promo and what elements we need to create. Well, let's start. Now that we have the storyboard, I think it's time to move on to set up our scene, but before moving on, something I forgot to explain With the template, I left it half ready so you can get a PDF, and you can see that I have this PDF I took from the file I made as a template. To get your PDF just go to File + Export, and they give Layer Comps to PDF, everything is ready in Layer Comps. If they don't know ...”
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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
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Category
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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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