Basics of Character Animation with After Effects

Overview

“It's time for our character to come alive. In this lesson we will see how to animate our character using the rig we created and, applying some of the animation principles we saw earlier.”

In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: It's alive - Part 1, 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 that lesson we will use what we have learned so far To animate our character. We will give you some movement and animate some expressions They reflect your personality. Let's start. The first thing I'm going to do is select this slider. I'm going to make it a little bigger because I think it's too small. We will press the S key to get the scale parameters and we are going to put it 200%. I think it looks better there. Here the controls continue to work, everything is fine. The first thing I'm going to animate is going to be the top-down movement As if our character were walking. For that...”

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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects

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

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects

• Areas

  3D Animation, Animation, Character Animation