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Cartooning in AE7?
I’m working on a 2D project, and wondered about the best way to approach certain simple tasks when ‘cartooning’ in AE7.
For instance: blinking. For the first segment I just applied a brute force approach, and used a layer that I popped in and out w/Opacity keyframes.
But it strikes me that using Time Remapping may be a more flexible approach: make the character blinking as a pre-comp, and use Time Remap keys to coordinate the time of blinking. At the least, this eliminates one layer in a crowded timeline.
Anyone do any cartooning in AE7? Remember, this is one version BEFORE the ‘Puppetry’ plugin was released with AE. (Dagnabit.)
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There are some character animation resources linked to from here that show how to do character animation with time remapping.
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I just linked someone to that Aharon Rabinowitz tutorial just the other day!
Some other good cartooning things in AE might be useful for you:
Inverse Kinematics: https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/ik.htmlWalk Cycle: https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ebberts_dan/layer_looping.php
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Inverse kinematics in AE7??
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Yes. I think the page I linked to was from back on AE 6.
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INteresting. I wonder if there’s a way to use IK and to get a nice solid outline around the (outside of only) character, as the art direction requires.
Thanks for the link.
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You can get an outline by precomposing your character animation and adding Vegas or Glow to the precomp and messing with the settings.
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