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  • [2D Animation]Up & Down Head Turn from an already composed left and right head turn.

    Posted by Roberto Mata on December 15, 2014 at 4:21 pm

    Hello,

    I’m building a rig for a character’s head turn in After Effects.
    I’ve just completed the left to right head turn (20 frames) and it’s ready for time remap, but now I want to create an up and down head movement

    The problem is if I do any change in my L to R head turn composition things start to get messy.

    How do I take advantage of the composition I already have without modifying it?

    Thanks.

    Roberto Mata replied 11 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Stephen Smith

    January 22, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    I hope this will be of help:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojv3XJBrXhs

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  • Roberto Mata

    January 24, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    Thanks Stephen,

    I will try that out for my next project, since I want to get practiced with the mesh warp effect, but this video doesn’t really suit my current project.

    I did an horizontal head turn of 20 frames, time remap it and tie it to a slider. Check.
    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSydjG4OkX4)
    Then, a vertical head turn, of 20 frames as well, starting from the center position of the previous horizontal turn. Check.

    Now, what I need is to bring them both together. I had thought the following (dunno if it’ll work):

    – Time remap the vertical head turn, tie it to a new slider.
    – Match the position of both heads at frame 10, the only moment they are identical.
    – Then create a checkbox control with both opacities in such a way that when I’m manipulating, keyframing the vertical turn, the horizontal is set to 0 and vice versa.

    Do you guys think it’ll work?
    Thanks

  • Roberto Mata

    January 26, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    Hello,

    My doubt was solved in this thread:
    https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/227/28901

    Thanks.

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