Basics of Character Animation with After Effects

Overview

“This principle helps us to emphasize the speed and impact of the objects that we animate by stretching or crushing them. ”

In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Squash & Stretch, 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 talk about the Squash Stretch, Another basic principles of animation. Basically, the Squash Stretch deforms your object to give how to understand that the object has a certain type of mass or material. We can see it as an example a ball, when we throw it, comes to hit a surface, The ball vertically expands horizontally. And when the ball is going at high speed, It deforms to give that feeling that it is going very fast. In this lesson we will see how to simulate this effect here in After Effects. This principle says that when an object moves, It tends to deform a litt...”

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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects

• Level: Beginner
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• 37 lessons (5h 48m)
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• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects

• Areas

  3D Animation, Animation, Character Animation