Overview
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Bring your characters to life with Adobe After Effects. Explore the essential tools and techniques for character animation in After Effects CC.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Before you start
- After Effects for animation
- Big picture concepts
- What art assets can I use?
- Prepare and import Photoshop files
- Prepare and import Illustrator files
- Shape layer intro
- Shape layer vs. masks
- Track mattes
- Precomposing
- Artwork tips and tricks
- What is rigging?
- Anchor points
- Parenting character parts
- The Puppet tool
- Fine-tune the Puppet tool
- Introduction to expressions
- Set up a slider controller
- Version master properties
- Useful effects for rigging
- Principles of animation
- Add and adjust keys
- Use the graph editor: Speed
- Use the graph editor: Value
- Looping animation
- Motion paths
- Work with audio tracks
- Switch art for lip sync
- Animate with motion sketch
- Use 3D layers for multiplane parallax
- Add cameras
- Create a mood with lights
- Rendering
- Next steps
