Rigging a Character in After Effects

About this Course:

Ok so you prepared a character in illustrator and you want to animate it inside after effects. The problem is that you have to put every single piece of the body in a new position and that can be very tedious. Even for simple movements like weaving good bye to a friend. You need to do a bunch of clicks and repositioning each single part.

Well there is a faster way to do it.

You can connect each part of the body so you can move it easily with just a few clicks and drags.

And if you need to change the hand you don't have to disappear the hand and reappear another one no. You can set a rig with replacement animation and just by moving a switch layer you can easily change to any version of the hand you want.

In this course you will learn:

• How to rig a character inside after effects.
• How to set forward kinematics: So you can move your character easily without having do draw each frame
• How to set up inverse kinematics: An advanced mathematical formula that lets you control your character easily and all done automatically without you having to scratch your head figuring out any formula.
• The clear difference between Forward Kinematics and Inverse Kinematics two concepts that a lot of animators are not familiar with.
• How to set up replacement animation: A technique in which you can change for example the mouth of your character to express different phonemes so then you can add some lip sync.

Every step is explained in detail and I also take the time to tell you why we do the things we are doing so you will always know what we are doing why and to what outcome.

Very nice.

Enroll now and start rigging your character for your next animation. See you inside.

Music Credits: DarxieLand Kevin MacLeod (incompetech) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Basic knowledge:

• You should be able to use a Computer at a beginner level
• You need to know how to download and uncompressed ZIP files to download the project files

Who is the target audience?:

• Animators who want to learn how to save time in character animation by rigging a character
• Animators who want to use After Effects for character animation

Course Completion Certificate

What you will learn:

• Take a character designed in Adobe Illustrator and prepare it for animation
• How to rig a character in After Effects
• How to set up replacement animation for lip sync and switching hands

Curriculum:

• Introduction
• Rigging The Character
• Finishing Off

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