Post Description

Learn to create and animate highly controllable characters using After Effects. In this course, author George Maestri covers every step on the way, from designing the characters in Photoshop or Illustrator, or drawing them straight from After Effects; assembling characters with hierarchies; making realistic deformations with the Puppet tool; automating rigs with expressions; creating realistic head turns; and showing advanced techniques such as using null objects as bones. Finally, the course shows how to perform a basic animation with the character and ensure the rig works correctly.

Topics include:

    Importing Illustrator or Photoshop files into After Effects
    Animating shapes
    Organizing scenes with null layers
    Working with the Puppet tool
    Creating replacement animation using time remapping
    Automating head turns
    Creating a master control node with Expression Controls effects
    Setting up a scene for animation
    Animating dialogue