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1. CHARACTER ANIMATOR TUTORIALS HOW TO
2. CHARACTER ANIMATOR TUTORIALS PRO
3. CHARACTER ANIMATOR TUTORIALS SERIES
4. CHARACTER ANIMATOR TUTORIALS FREE

CHARACTER ANIMATOR TUTORIALS SERIES

Update: See also a 4-part video series on AE: Inverse Kinematic Character Animation and IK Character Animation: Walk to the Beat by Andrew Devis.Īdobe posted sessions by the makers of Angry Birds from Max 2014, The Use of After Effects in the Creation of Animated Character Rigs for the Angry Birds Toons and Finessing the Art of Animation Storytelling with Creative Cloud. See also these AE Help pages, especially the extra resources: Animation, keyframes, and expressions, Parent and child layers, and Puppet tools overview and resources.

It's important to avoid too predictable variation in motion cycles, so some may need to change up their variables more often, as when using expressions (as discussed by Anders Sundstedt) or with assistants (as mentioned in AE Preset: Back N Forth + animation aids). Tools for character animation in AE include Duik Tools, RigitScript for character rigging, as well as Puppet Tools (see above). In addition, see Animating a Walk-Cycle Using Loop Expressions by Dan Ebberts as well as his in-depth explanations of expressions in Inverse Kinematics (riffing off Brian Maffitt) and refinements in Inverse Kinematics Redux. There's a focus on emotion and expression in Behind the Scenes of ParaNorman: Angry Aggie, and more general interesting stuff presented with pleasant text in Making Phantom Limb by Alex Grigg (trailer below). And, LeeDanielsART has posted After Effects tutorials, including Animating 2D Cartoon Faces and Animating Coils & Antennae. Not quite sure what to make of it though!Įmotions and Facial Expression by Joumana Medlej is detailed and interesting, as are the many artful infographics on that website. In Animated Cartoon Roto Shapes with mocha and After Effects, Imagineer's Mary Poplin uses mocha to create animated roto-shapes to create a simplified and stylized animated look with Cartoon and other effects in After Effects. And Mikey Borup posted Character Animation Fundamentals for After Effects, a 23-minute tutorial.

CHARACTER ANIMATOR TUTORIALS HOW TO

Ross Plaskow has several intro tutorials on YouTube, starting with How To Make a Cartoon | For Beginners – After Effects and Photoshop Tutorial.

See also more recent tutorials at AEtuts+ like Learn How to Rig and Animate a Character and Create your Own Odyssey Day 1 and Day 2 by Marcin Zeglinski. Rob Mize added more in additional tutorials, for example with Character Design and Animation in AE, using shapes matched to a pencil sketch. Pete McEvoy's Rigging a character for After Effects beforehand in Illustrator also appeared that year in Digital Arts, which later added Design and Animate a Stylish 50s Cartoon Character by Ben Mounsey. They also have a 2007 Animate a character in After Effects tutorial from Rex Crowle. Resources in Lip Sync in After Effects, an AE Portal roundup, may also be useful.Ĭovering the basics in Animate a character in After Effects at Computer Arts magazine, Stuart Preece explained how to breathe life into your character designs using After Effects' built-in tools. Here's the overview, but please check your audio volume: Mettle sponsored a 9-part series, Build Me Some Hope: Lip-Synced Character Animation Series by David Legion. PuppetTools 3 by Greg Gunn, from, has a good number of useful features: Here's a sample from the early series by Daniel Gies and one from Duik Tools: Gies continues his tutorials, for example with Using the Liquefy Effect for Head Turns and Facial Expressions.

CHARACTER ANIMATOR TUTORIALS PRO

Gies has continued beyond his 2 big series with a variety of other tutorials, including Rocket Randee, which was later rebooted into “From Paper to After Effects,” a 3rd major series showing how to build a multi-angled, segmented puppet using After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Pro Tools.

CHARACTER ANIMATOR TUTORIALS FREE

Another example of 3D depth with Freeform (no longer bundled free with AE) is Gareth Jones for Virgin Media. Mettle's Freeform Pro is used to add impressive depth to character in After Effects, and numerous tips are shared including IK (inverse kinematics) with the free Duik Tools (IK scripts for After Effects). Rig A Realistic Puppet, a newer 17-part series by Daniel Gies, started in October 2011. and Video2brain training sets by Angie Taylor, Animated Character Design in Adobe Illustrator, 2D character animation in After Effects, and Hand drawn animation with After Effects paint tools. Two other substantial resources also appeared not long ago: a free series on character animation in AE offered free by Daniel Gies (see embed below).