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After Effects: Simple Character Animation & Motion Graphics
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(48 ratings)
1,176 students

After Effects: Simple Character Animation & Motion Graphics

Learn After Effects CC to Improve your videos and animations. Create Simple Walking Character. Improve your motion!
Created byGeorge Grancharov
Last updated 10/2018
English
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What you'll learn

  • How to use After Effect
  • Simple Walking Character
  • What it takes to create a smooth 2D animation
  • How to create a video project from start to finish
  • Think creative about your project
  • Start creating animations immediately
  • All the Useful Techniques used in After Effects for a smooth Character Animation
  • You will be confident in your skills even if you're a beginner
  • Export high quality videos like .MP4 and .MOV
  • And also how to export .GIF for web

Course content

3 sections • 11 lectures • 47m total length

  • Welcome!1:19

    Welcome to the After Effects simple character animation course. Download the files, import the characters, and start animating with beginner-friendly, step-by-step guidance, q&a support, and confidence-building goals.

  • Preparing The Assets3:11

    Design characters in photoshop or illustrator, place each element on its own layer, and import the photoshop file into after effects with a composition that retains layer sizes for per-layer animation.

  • Rigging The Eyes7:27

    Learn to rig and animate blinking eyes in after effects by organizing eye shapes into a single layer, assembling a frame-by-frame blink, and using time remapping to control blink timing.

  • Rigging The Character7:39

    Rig the character by building front and back arms and legs, setting anchor points for rotation, and parenting parts to the torso for cohesive animation.

Requirements

  • You need to have Adobe After Effects installed in your computer. We'll be using the Creative Cloud version, but if you have previous version it is still ok. You can do the same project in older version in After Effects also.
  • This course is perfect for all levels. But if you're beginner you can follow along throught the process and learn everything one step at a time.

Description

Hey let me show you that character animation in After Effects doesn't have to be hard and complex.

This is the most fun and simple course on Character Animation in the whole internet :)

Come and see for yourself!

You will learn how to import characters previously created in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator to After Effects.
From then you will learn how to rig the characters so it can move, blink, walk and be ready for animation.
You than will know how to create a smooth walking character ready for professional production.

Throught the process you'll learn all the technical aspects in After Effects like:
- Composition
- Layers
- Work Area
- Time Remapping
- Key Frames
- Parenting
- Export for the Web

And Also What it takes to create a smooth 2D Walking Character like: 
- Proper Staging
- Pose to Pose
- Preparation
- Sense of weight
- Dynamics
- And much more

The Fun is guaranteed! Come and learn a skill for life :)

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners who want to learn about Composition, Work Area, Layers, Parenting, Key Frames and Motion Graphics
  • Animators who want to learn how to create Smooth Walking Character In After Effects
  • Motion graphics artists and graphic designers
  • YouTubers
  • Explainer Video Professionals

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