5 Great 2D Character Rigging Tutorials For After Effects. Does your animation lack “character”?
Or does it lack character animation? Character animation is one of the trickiest techniques in After Effects. It’s become a very popular technique for all sorts of animations, especially things like explainer videos and shorts. But creating great character animation starts with great character rigging, and this is something that takes a little work. There are some tools out there to make this easier. Today, we are going to highlight some great character rigging tutorials that will help you build great characters for your animation needs. 1. Character animation is so popular now that Adobe is building their own character animation tool called Character Animator. The team behind the tool has created a 30-minute tutorial outlining how the Character Animator tool works and how you can use it for your animations.
30 Movie Title Tutorials for After Effects. How To Create a Flat Shaded Smoke Effect in Ae. CreativMotion shows how to create a cartoon style flat look to a smoke animation effect in After Effects. creativMotion extends a look at who you can create a cel shaded look for a flat 2D style smoke effect in After Effects.
Here, the workflow consists of creating the smoke effect elements in Adobe Illustrator. The elements are then used and animated in After Effects to create the smoke effect animation. Learn how to create a flat style smoke effect Once the basic animatic is completed, you can find out how to easily create the Cel shaded cartoonish, flat 2D style look by overlaying pre comps together in After Effects. A while back, Shawn Sheehan demonstrated more of a simulated technique using Trapcode Particular to generate the 2D flat style smoke effect. Over the last little while creativMotion has exclusively shown how to create the hand drawn animation look, and the 2D Style, cartoon Cel shaded look with a few tutorials both in After Effects and Photoshop.
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This two-part series shows you how. In Part 1 you saw how to export UV data from your 3D apps for use in After Effects. In Part 2, I show you how to create mattes in your 3D applications that you can export to After Effects. Multichannel OpenEXR files are an ideal format for storing your mattes. This article concludes by showing you how to install and use the OpenEXR plug-ins from fnord to enable you to handle this format in After Effects. A regular issue you will face when integrating 3D rendered imagery with other work is how to separate elements. First, clearly you do not intend to process parts of the image that you don't want processed.
Figure 1. Second, you will often use identical instances of the same object in your 3D scene. Figure 2. The last, and perhaps the most common, application of generating mattes in 3D programs is selective color correction. Alpha mattes Object ID/matte passes Figure 3. After Effects CS4 Tutorials: 40 Creative Tips. It has been almost six months since my last post on After Effects tutorials titled: AE Tutorials: 50 Superb Must Have Effects.
Since then I have been scouring the web in search of fresh new Adobe After Effects CS4 tutorials for you to try out. I am confident that these 40 superb AE tutorials will guide you in creating some amazing motion graphics for your next project. Now the hard part will be deciding which of these amazing tutorials you will use in your next creation.
AE Tutorials: 50 Superb Must Have Effects. It has been almost six months since my last post on After Effects tutorials titled: After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects.
Since then I have been scouring the web in search of fresh new Adobe AE tutorials for you to try out. I am confident that these 50 superb AE tutorials will guide you in creating some amazing motion graphics for your next project. Now the hard part will be deciding which of these amazing tutorials you will use in your next creation. Hope you enjoy! Want more articles on Motion Graphics? Showreel: 40+ Stunning And Creative Examples. After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects. In the last few months I have written a couple of posts about motion graphics.
Although I have only dabbled in After Effects, it is still one of the things that intrigues me most. After Effects is a really cool software that allows you create vibrant motions graphics just like the movies. So if you are thinking of making a meteor hitting the earth with a smoke trail or just graffiti writing on a wall in 3D, this post is a must see. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out? Want more articles on Motion Graphics? Cool Computer Animated Videos. Tutorial: Whiteboard Animation Style (A Different Approach) After Effects Tutorials: 20 Hollywood Style Movie Title FX. Although I have only dabbled in After Effects, it is still one of the things that intrigues me most.
After Effects CS6 Tutorials: 40 Top Notch Visual Effects Tips. In the last few months I have written a couple of posts about motion graphics. Although I have only dabbled in After Effects, it is still one of the things that intrigues me most. After Effects is a really cool software that allows you create vibrant motions graphics just like the movies. So if you are thinking of making a Hollywood Movie Title Series or just Creating An Awesome Teleportation Effect this post is a must see. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out? Want more articles on Motion Graphics?