Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement
Course final project
A course by Carlos "Zenzuke" Albarrán , Motiongrapher
About the final project for: Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement
Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement
“We have reached the end. This is a brief summary of everything we have seen. It will help you to refresh the steps you have to go through to put your friend in motion. - Make a sheet of thumbnails with your characters - Choose a character from your sheet of thumbnails and pass it to clean - Pass the sketch to Photoshop - Install Duik - Understand puppet pin operation - Create the arms and legs controls - Create controls for your friend's spine. - Unify all the pieces that you have separately - Finish the Rig of our character, take a picture. - Learn to animate in After Effects - Perform your character's walking cycle - Make your character walk. - Prepare a fund for your friend - Create other expressions of your character - Render your animation and upload it to the Final Project I hope you enjoyed the course. Now you just have to make your friend share it with me and the other students in the forum of the course. You will see how many friends we are going to have together! See you in the forum Zenzuke ”
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's summarize a bit all the steps we have taken to arrive at this final result. First we made a sheet of thumbnails, small drawings that were going to serve us to later make our final sketch. We take it to Photoshop to be able to paint it, color it and break it up into pieces to bring it into After Effects. We install Duik. In After Effects we import our doll. We separate it into pieces. We learned how to use the Puppet Pin and we prepare the limbs with Duik and our scripts. We also prepare the trunk of our character, the head and we put it all together. Then we saw a series of animation ...”
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Course summary for: Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement
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3D & Animation -
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Adobe After Effects -
Areas
2D Animation, Animation, Character Animation, Character Design, Motion Graphics, Rigging
Carlos "Zenzuke" Albarrán
A course by Carlos "Zenzuke" Albarrán
Carlos Albarrán (Zenzuke) has more than ten years of experience working as a creative director, a 2D and 3D animator, and a motion graphics artist. As a co-founder of the motion design studio Maaambo, he regularly collaborates with some of the most prestigious producers and agencies in Spain. He also combines his creative work with teaching and has been sharing his knowledge on motion graphics and 3D animation for more than six years at some of the most well-known schools and workshops in Madrid, as well as online with Domestika.
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