Character Animation in After Effects

Over the last few days, I have been exploring character animation in After Effects and have been able to pick up some cool tricks and have found some useful plugins that I hope to explore these more for character animation in After Effects. Below is a few versions of a super simple walk cycle, where I experimented with various effects within the program to add interest/texture.

 

Last week I finished some animations and started some that Tate ended up finishing:

This week I did a handful of photo IDs. Here are a few:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have a new 200×200 format for Workday photos which is exciting! Thanks to Suloni making some helpful templates, all the photo IDs were easy to edit, and since they were all studio photos, they didn’t really need editing either!

Finally I’ve just been doing some Cascade help and I will start updating the Cascade documentation in the coming weeks.

 

Stretchy Face Animation Test

Spent some time the last couple of days watching tutorials on Lynda and working on a character head movement that featured more elatistic facial features and angle changes in space. I imagine the character saying “Whaaaaaaaa-?” The green is the rough first pass and the black are the more refined lines.

Last Animations of RUS412K

Here are the last of the last (as far as I know) of the animations for RUS412K. I’ve been working on this project since I started at LAITS, and while there will be some touch ups here and there, it feels pretty weird essentially finishing this project. The looping animations are gifs, so click ’em to see ’em move!