Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement

Overview

“The most important part of any friend who boasts. In this lesson we are going to leave the head prepared so that our virtual colleague can look at the world around him.”

In this video lesson Carlos "Zenzuke" Albarrán addresses the topic: Head, which is part of the Domestika online course: Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement. Learn how to create an animated character, from the initial sketch to the final rigging in After Effects.

Partial transcription of the video

“BUILD A FRIEND UNIT 2: BE THE DR. FRANKENSTEIN LESSON 4 The head may seem a bit messier at first, but it is very simple. We will select the head, create a controller and basically we will do, is the Anchor Point we will put it at 0, 100 so it's down here. We will put the Scale at 200 to make it a little bigger. We will place it here really where our head would turn. In fact, we could put the Anchor Point at 50, 100 and the Scale at 250 to make it a little bigger still. Okay. We leave it here. There is. We put it on the neck where our head would more or less turn. You have to hook with the n...”

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Course summary for: Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (337)
• 12593 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 55m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animation, Character Animation, Character Design, Motion Graphics, Rigging