Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement

Animate in After Effects

A course by Carlos "Zenzuke" Albarrán , Motiongrapher

Motiongrapher. Madrid, Spain.
Joined January 2009

Learn how to create an animated character, from the initial sketch to the final rigging in After Effects

  • English, Spanish
  • 98% positive reviews (323)
  • 11368 students

About the video: Animate in After Effects

Overview

“In this lesson you will see a couple of basics to animate in After Effects. As happened with lesson 5 of unit 1, if you already know After Effects, you have my permission to skip this class. Anyway, you can still discover something you do not know ...”

In this video lesson Carlos "Zenzuke" Albarrán addresses the topic: Animate in After Effects, 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 3: GET UP AND GO! LESSON 1 In this unit 3, Get up and walk! We will see some basic concepts of animation. We will put our character to walk and we will learn how to get our animation from After Effects and make a video or animated GIF to put on our forums. In this lesson, we will learn how to do our first animations with After Effects, because we haven't animated anything yet. We will use this ball. We will get the parameter that we want, in this case, position, and we will press the stopwatch next to it. Do you remember the stopwatch we used already in this course to pu...”

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

  • Level: Beginner
  • 98% positive reviews (323)
  • 11368 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

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.


English, Spanish
  • 98% positive reviews (323)
  • 11368 students
  • 16 lessons (2h 55m)
  • 15 additional resources (11 files)
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  • Audio: English, Spanish
  • Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
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Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement. 3D, and Animation course by Carlos "Zenzuke" Albarrán

Build a Friend: From Pencil to Movement

A course by Carlos "Zenzuke" Albarrán
Motiongrapher. Madrid, Spain.
Joined January 2009
  • 98% positive reviews (323)
  • 11368 students