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After Effects: Character Animation Techniques

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Overview

Learn how to bring your characters to life with the character animation functionality in Adobe After Effects.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Design creative character animations in After Effects
1. Traditional Layered Setup
  • Set up anchor points
  • Link body parts with parenting
  • Group body parts with nested comps
2. Rigging and Structures
  • Set up Master Properties
  • Use Controller layers
  • Graph Editor and keyframe interpolation
3. Puppet Tool
  • Motion capture with the Puppet tool
  • Use bend pins and advanced pins
  • Fix issues with Starch pins
  • Create depth with Overlap pins
  • Tweak Puppet tool animations
4. Advanced Rigging
  • Use layers as adjusters
  • Rig the Puppet tool
  • Rig with Master Properties
5. Rigging Scripts
  • Overview of RubberHose
  • Overview of Duik
6. Audio Tricks
  • Automate lip sync
  • Trigger animation with audio
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Angie Taylor

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4.6 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 110 ratings

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