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Animating a Plush Toy
I’m not sure if I’m posting in the correct forum, but I figured AE would have a hand in this.
I have an idea that involves creating a miniature set, and using a plush toy heart with a person’s eyes and mouth edited onto it (think Annoying Orange). The heart will be talking. Now, what I’d like to do is have the heart walk, turn, etc (I’ll be designing some limbs on). Can anyone point me in the right direction of the approach that’ll help me accomplish this?
Thank you.
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You should look into Character Animator. It is a program you can install as part of your CC subscription (assuming you have an all apps subscription) and it is super-fun to use!
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Thank you, Dave, you make a great point. Perhaps I’ll have to put this idea in the back burner until I can assemble a team to help me do this.
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if the heart can stay still it will work much easier
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How I would approach this is to shoot the sequence in multiple takes, one take from the front, one from a slight right turn, left, turn, etc. and do morph cuts to make the heart/face combo turn in a realistically 3-d manner. Character animator, as I understand it, works in 2-d flat space. You *could* first record the 3-d item on set and then apply Character Nimator to it, but it will only look 3-d from the front, as soon as the thing turns, the illusion breaks.
So that’s why I say shoot it in a more “old fashioned” way. Multiple takes with the face and the heart locked off and the camera moved. Light it very flat, and introduce shadows later in post to sell it.
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