Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects
Designing the Main Object 2
A course by Santiago Avila , Graphic and Motion Designer
About the video: Designing the Main Object 2
Overview
“Now that I've explored the main structure of my character and defined the two poses, it's time to consider its features. For this step, you will need to consider the transition between poses A and B: what will happen to the features? As we progress, I will review the classic dos and don'ts when preparing a vector file for After Effects. ”
In this video lesson Santiago Avila addresses the topic: Designing the Main Object 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects. Learn how to create fully-procedural animations from scratch using experimental visual techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Designing the Main Object Now that we have both poses, we can start dressing up our object and making it more interesting. Now that we know that the transformation between the poses is logical enough, we can start understanding how we will animate it. We know there will be two hammers coming from the sides and they will squeeze it in this region, so the top nodes will bulge outwards. Let's go back to our pose A, we'll add a face to our character. Let's create an eyeball shape. I like doing these shapes with a square that's rotated. With Direct Selection tool, I'll select these two nodes. ...”
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Course summary for: Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects
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2D Animation, Animation, Motion Graphics
Santiago Avila
A course by Santiago Avila
Santiago Avila is an Argentinian motion and graphic designer based in London. He has been working in motion graphics and animation for over a decade, both in-house for companies and as a freelancer. He has contributed to projects that range from film, broadcast, music live visuals, and digital content. This has given him the opportunity to experiment with 2D and 3D animation for both graphic and character-driven storytelling.
He has worked for clients such as Nike, Disney, Coca-Cola, Spotify, Netflix, MTV, Condé Nast, Dell, the History Channel, FOX, ASICS, and BFI. Santiago has also collaborated with artists like Kylie Minogue, Disclosure, London Grammar and Anne-Marie.
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