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Creating Animated Character Illustrations with After Effects

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About Creating Animated Character Illustrations with After Effects

Introduction

Our Class Project

Cleaning Up Your Illustration

Importing Into After Effects

Parenting And Pivot Points

Swap Drawings

3D Layers

Puppet Pin Tool

Exporting Your Project and Creating a Gif

Thank You!

What You Will Learn?

  • Have you ever wanted to take your illustrations and breathe the life of animation into them? .
  • In this class I will show you how to turn your illustration into an animation friendly puppet, import it into After Effects, and teach you some handy tools that will allow you to animate your character. Even if you are new to After Effects, I will show you tools to get you started.  You will learn skills including pivot points basic rigging, the puppet pin tool, 3D layers, and more. .
  • By the end of this class you with have an understanding of how to make your characters seamlessly move and look alive with the power of puppetry!.