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character and camera animation in ae
i am new to the after effects world but i am trying to help out a friend with a animated short. i am slightly more familiar with shake but want to try and do this project with after effects. I am being given a photoshop document ad being told to animate the four characters in a 13 second clip. 6 seconds into this shot the push in on one of the characters as she wipes across the frame. I am a looking for tutorials that will help with animating the camera and characters also any input or things to be careful of thank you very much for you time
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For character animation I’d suggest looking at the puppet tool (If you have CS3 or higher) and making sure your familiar with layers and parenting. Once you have separate layers for import bits (Limbs head etc) and they’re parented to the body its fairly easy to move them around, make them wave etc etc. If you want more instruction/advanced techniques lynda.com has an animating characters course which is pretty good – but fiddling around is enough to get you started.
As for cameras you can probably get away with building a ‘big’ scene in one composition and then scaling/moving that comp about inside another comp rather then using a camera – but if you do want to use cameras Video Copilots basic training tutorials has bits on camera control which are worth watching.
Good luck
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Paul, thanks for the link to lynda’s character sessions. Bookmarked!
bogiesan
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Thank you for the info you rock
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