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Question about this specific type of animation. Client wants me to create this on Deadline!!
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This is straight up TOONING (in my opinion). Would you say this was created with toon software or could this be created in After Effects? My skills are pretty good in after effects, but I am only beginning my quest into the puppet pin tool which I believe would be how most of this is done (not sure how the mouth movements are made though).
Any help in how this was created would be a great help! My client wants me to create something along these lines for a launch video and the deadline is next Monday! ahhh!
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The fluid deformation of the limbs and the way the facial features slide up and down make me think that yes, this almost certainly was done with AE and the Puppet Tool.
It’s really not all that tough to use. Here’s a tutorial:
https://www.metacafe.com/watch/885847/puppet_tool_in_adobe_after_effects_cs3/
Joey Foreman
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Thank you so much Joey for the quick response! That makes me feel more comfortable. Would have hated to “learn” a new application and deliver a a product in a few days time! Thanks for the tutorial too. Going to do it now!
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Also, Mesh Warp, Bezier Warp, good parenting and Anchor Point positioning together with good old AE animation can do a lot. Here’s an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9fMkE6mS2k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDB6h6bKPqEAnd there is always the great script for inverse kinematics from here (watch the tutorials):
https://ik.duduf.com/Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Wow Ted! I can’t believe those 2 examples were done in After Effects. I can’t wait to break into those types of projects. I’ll be practicing these methods a lot. Thanks for the examples. I’m excited!
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Yes puppet tool, and old good AE animation should do the trick. Just be sure your client provide you a “LOCKED” voice over before you start to animate(seriously), because a single change in voice over can be translated in hours of retiming, so precomp everything you can to be able to change : graphics, mouth, animated elements… easily. Also you may want to check this wonderful script
https://ik.duduf.com/, there some tutos on the site that explain how it work.Hope this help
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Wow good point on the Voice OVer being locked. That is very important. So pre comp EVERYTHING…each persons body, the mouths separately, backgrounds, separate images that they could be dealing with in certain scenes?
Will do! I saw the Duduf scripts and downloaded them. Amazing rigging. Going to mess with it a bit.
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