2D Animations: Make Your Character Illustrations Move

Overview

“I will continue animating inside After Effects and start adding overlapping animations based on the general movement I just created. This offset in movement works like a chain reaction from the origin of the movement in the body. It will give a more organic motion and feel to the animation.”

In this video lesson Nuria Boj addresses the topic: After Effects: Overlapping Character Movement 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: 2D Animations: Make Your Character Illustrations Move. Animate subtle movement in your character designs using After Effects and Procreate..

Partial transcription of the video

“ After Effects Overlapping Character Movement In this lesson, I'll continue working inside After Effects and I'll create the overlapping actions and animations based on the main movement of the character so that it gives a more dynamic and interesting result. Now that all the parts of the character are linked together and they have a basic movement to them as well, I would like to start adding the overlapping animations to certain areas of the character that will follow at a delayed time. This offset in movement is like a chain reaction that originates from where the main movement begins. ...”

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Course summary for: 2D Animations: Make Your Character Illustrations Move

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (30)
• 1424 students
• 5 units
• 27 lessons (6h 8m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Procreate

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animation, Character Animation, Character Design, Digital Illustration