After Effects- Character Animation Techniques

Discover how easy it is to bring your characters to life in Adobe After Effects. Join Angie Taylor as she shares tips and tricks for animating within this powerful motion graphics and compositing application. Learn how to set up anchor points, link the different parts of your characters together in a parental hierarchy, and create a simple character rigging system. Get tips for using the Puppet tool, including how to create a sense of depth in your animations and fix glitches with Starch pins. Plus, discover how to link master properties to your Puppet tool rig; leverage RubberHose, a rigging script for After Effects; and easily automate a lip-sync animation.

Topics include:

Setting up anchor points

Linking layers together in a parental hierarchy

Creating rigs with master properties

Motion capture with the Puppet tool

Improving your Puppet animations

Using a temporary layer to adjust values

Rigging the Puppet tool

Working with RubberHose

0 – Introduction E0 – Design creative character animations in After Effects

1 – 1. Traditional Layered Setup E1 – Set up anchor points E2 – Link body parts with parenting E3 – Group body parts with nested comps

2 – 2. Rigging and Structures E4 – Set up Master Properties E5 – Use Controller layers E6 – Graph Editor and keyframe interpolation

3 – 3. Puppet Tool E10 – Create depth with Overlap pins E11 – Tweak Puppet tool animations E7 – Motion capture with the Puppet tool E8 – Use bend pins and advanced pins E9 – Fix issues with Starch pins

4 – 4. Advanced Rigging E12 – Use layers as adjusters E13 – Rig the Puppet tool E14 – Rig with Master Properties

5 – 5. Rigging Scripts E15 – Overview of RubberHose E16 – Overview of Duik

6 – 6. Audio Tricks

E17 – Automate lip sync E18 – Trigger animation with audio

7 – Conclusion

E19 – Next steps

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