Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects
Animating the Main Shape 1
A course by Santiago Avila , Graphic and Motion Designer
About the video: Animating the Main Shape 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will focus on the main shape of the squeeze ball and how the hammers will interact with it. I will build the pose keyframes as well as a squash and stretch on the main shape, which will give a blobbier feel to it and make the animation richer. For now, the key goal is to ensure that each object has an A and B state. Let's get started! ”
In this video lesson Santiago Avila addresses the topic: Animating the Main Shape 1, 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
“ Animating the Main Shape In this lesson, we're now ready to start our animation. We will use our pose images as reference and use shape layers to transition between the poses. We will first focus on the main shape of our squeeze ball and how the hammers interact with it. We'll start by soloing the Face layer, changing its colour to Fuchsia so we can find it more quickly. We will press File, Import, File. Once we find our folder, we will then select our Pose B image reference that we had exported from Illustrator. We will double-click it and drag it into the composition. We'll check that i...”
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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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