animate talk, walk, move-smoke pack, trees like a human characters

[Justin Productions]

Hey Catch-Me,

Merry christmas to you too.

Well, it’s only a matter of keyframing. Create some body parts in a software (like Photoshop, whatever) and simply animate them in AE..

To make them talk, click on Aharon’s head, he did an excellent, as always, tutorial on how to make your “characters” talk inside of AE.

What kind of answer did you expect? Did that helped?

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional

[Mike Clasby]

What Justin said, good stuff. Here’s a little more, for Walk, click on Dan Ebberts head and scroll to “Animating a Walk-Cycle”, for Talk, you might also checkout Crazy Talk, it shape-morph’s the character’s face to your speech or text.

https://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/

[Kamrul Hasan]

Thank you very much for both of your reply.

Yes, I think you got my points. Basically, I would like to do, a tree will walk or a teaspon, smoke pack will dance (i.e. move), same like a human. I saw Ahron’s tutorials. It helps but not exactly what I am looking for. Do you know any other techniques? Is it possible by using Morphing techniques?

Thank you in advance, waiting for your reply.

Regards

Hasan

[Nate Vander plas]

I think the liquify tool might be your best bet if you want to create facial expressions and such. Aharon has a tut about that tool, called “horror text.” I think he uses liquify in part II. Here’s a link to a stupid little animation I did a while ago using liquify:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TsJMpmqMXQ
Hopefully that gives you some ideas about the possibilities.
Nate