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Design 3D & Animation Character Animation

Save Time in Character Animation for After Effects

Animation can be a fast process if you know the secret: Do Animation with rigged characters, with a few clicks and drags
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (326 ratings)
5,765 students
Created by 2D Animation 101 Courses
Last updated 9/2018
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What you'll learn

  • Rig a Character in After Effects
  • Animate your cartoon characters faster with just a few clicks and drags

Requirements

  • Have Adobe After Effects in your system
  • If you want to follow along, you can download the project files
  • Basic knowledge of Adobe After Effects is recommended, but not required, because I give a tour of the program

Description

Stop your “I don’t have time for this” and animate quickly, using a powerful technique that helps you animate with just a few clicks and drags.

The most common reason why people neglect to pursue something in their lives is because the lack of time. Lots of work, lots of things to do.

That’s the very reason why millions of people love to learn how to do things faster and easier.

But how can you do something if there is no such way yet?

Frustration hurts, but I had to overcome it. And better yet, help others to avoid it.

When I started to take a bit of my sleep time to start a project in animation, I just knew it was going to take me forever, and after the frustration of dropping the project for a couple of months, I came back for revenge! (Not in the negative way, more like in an EPIC WAY!)

It was after watching a couple of tutorials for After Effects on Video Copilot that I learned the power of expressions. Got me inspired. There could actually be a way to solve this!

As you know, there is no spoiler in saying this, but yes, I found a way. HOORAY!

Finally, a solution!

That solution is what this course is about. Teaching you how to speed up your animation time with an advanced technique: Rigged Characters.

Rigging characters has been used since a couple of years ago, but what I teach you here is how to automate the movements by using expressions (Java code and lots math) inside After Effects to give you the ability to move your characters with just clicks and drags.

Just check 1 hour of free lessons to see if you find the techniques interesting.

“What options do I have for animating a character?”

Picture this. You have a project in your mind, let’s say, a 2 minute animation. You have the plot in your mind, it’s a good story and you even have the main characters drawn and ready.

You know how to use After Effects, because you went to Video Copilot and learned the basics for free.

Option 1: Puppet tool

You could put your drawings inside After Effects and put a couple of puppet pins, so you can move the character by changing the position of the pins. Right? Well that takes a lot of time to animate, it’s faster than drawing frame-by-frame, but still takes a lot of time.

Option 2: Cut out animation

Maybe you don’t know about the puppet tool technique and you just split the character into the different parts of the body. The arms, the legs, the body and the head. Everything in a separate layer. Animating that “rig” takes a lot of time too. Maybe it’s faster than classical animation but it won't be as fast as a few clicks and drags to change the position.

What can you do to make it super fast?

Option 3: Advanced Rigging

Using a powerful rig that calculates everything for you so you only have to make a few clicks and drags to change the position of your character.

It’s so easy that you will remember when you played with toys

Have you ever played with toys? If you wanted to raise the hand of your Action Figure or your Barbie, all you had to do was to take the hand and raise it right? Imagine if animating was that simple.

Well, this is what this course is going to teach you. How to change body positions in a snap.

When you find a solution, everybody wants to know it

After I came up with this technique, I brought it to the studio I work for (I do motion graphics for commercials), and they went crazy. They started to ask me for lots of tips because I knew that the secret to be faster in animation was by using expressions.

Anybody who knows how to use After Effects knows that the secret to speed up your work is by automating with expressions. And the only way I could help everybody, was by organizing the process and create a couple of videos.

That’s when the idea for this course was born.

Rigged Characters are the common way to speed your animation, everybody knows that

Rigged Characters are what most professionals under a schedule use. I’m talking about Nickelodeon, Disney TV. They all use techniques to rig characters and animate faster.

But until now, there was no way you could achieve all this in After Effects, you had to do your animation in Toon Boom, or Animate Studio. What about us? The After Effects Community?

Well, this is my contribution. An Advanced Rig that helps you control your character easily and quickly, all inside After Effects.

If you haven’t checked yet, take a look at 1 hour of free lessons and see for yourself how easy you can achieve this rig, and how it can help you to animate faster.

“It all sounds great, but, What level of knowledge do I need?”

Because I know there is a lot of people who doesn’t know how to use After Effects, I made an update and included a tour of the software. Everyone is getting it now. And if you are a veteran user, you might discover some advanced little tips that can help you cut your work time in half.

Check the reviews.

Animating faster is not only something people with little time need, but also big studios who work under a schedule. This course will help you achieve faster times, deliver work earlier and stay ahead of schedule.

“What if I don’t understand something? What if I need help?”

If you have a question, just ask me and I try to reach as fast as possible. I answer all questions, mostly on the same day. I check my inbox twice a day.

And just so you know, this course has had tons of modifications thanks to the many questions I received. Many lessons have been re recorded so anyone can understand the concepts. Really, any doubt you have is actually a way to help improve this course.

Check the free lessons now!

What are you waiting for? Preview the free hour of video lessons and if you believe this course is what you were looking for, enroll for the complete 4.5 hour course and discover the secret techniques that can help you cut your working time in half.

Inside you will find the project files to follow along and easy to follow instructions to achieve this powerful technique.

Enroll today!

Who this course is for:

  • This 2D Animation course is meant for beginners to intermediate users of After Effects looking for a fast way to animate, using a rigged puppet.

Featured review

Paul Storm
Paul Storm
126 courses
35 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
A very fun and informative course. Really enjoyed following along and the tutor has a great sense of humour, making it a blast to learn from him. Totally recommend this course for anybody interested in the subject.

Course content

10 sections • 39 lectures • 4h 37m total length

  • Preview08:00
  • Preview01:50
  • Preview06:02
  • Getting DuIK 14.23
    00:22
  • Preview01:47

  • Preview10:00
  • Preview05:46
  • Preview09:37
  • Preview05:43
  • Preview07:30
  • Preview10:38
  • Preview05:49

  • Setting Up For 3D Illusion - Turning The Face
    08:24
  • Animating The Face Shape For 3D Illusion - Turning The Face
    09:29
  • Animating The Rest Of The Face For 3D Illusion
    09:00
  • Cleaning The Workspace
    06:24

  • Setup For Head And Face Controls
    08:14
  • Extracting The Different Parts Of The Face To Separate Layers
    08:39
  • Create Effects For The Controllers And Parent Layers
    07:24
  • Align Anchor Points
    03:21

  • Expressions For Turning The Head
    12:12
  • Controlling The Head Up And Down
    04:59
  • Marking Limits For Head Control
    07:03
  • Expressions For Eyebrow And Eye Controllers
    08:58
  • Preparing Eyes And Eyebrows And Fixing Eye Blinks
    04:44
  • Expressions For Eyebrows
    18:06
  • Expressions For Pupils
    07:11

  • Animating For Lip Sync
    08:50
  • Expressions For Mouth Part 1
    06:42
  • Expressions For Mouth Part 2
    04:56
  • Setting Up The Jaw And Using Expressions
    09:31

  • Front To Back Switch
    06:54
  • Blinking And Final Touches
    08:24

  • Animating The Character
    14:21
  • Setting Up 3D Scene
    05:36

  • Setting Up For Replacement Animation
    06:43
  • Replacement Animation
    05:08

  • Wrap It Up
    01:17
  • BONUS LESSON: "What's Next?"
    02:18

Instructor

2D Animation 101 Courses
Animation Courses for Beginners
2D Animation 101 Courses
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 8,322 Reviews
  • 133,371 Students
  • 26 Courses

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, we are a group of animators who love to share everything we know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production.

Our aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Our courses will help beginners along with intermediate users.

We have helped more than 54,000+ students to discover techniques and all the knowledge they need to start animating their projects.

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