-
Character Animation – Walking forward, Scaling and Positioning multiple layers
I am new to After Effects with less than a week experience and really need some advice on a particular animation that I am working on now. I am creating a character animation, to be specific a fashion model walking forward down the ramp. I want the character to appear smaller (50% size) at far in the artboard and walk forward along a path to a full 100% size. I am on AE 17.1.2 and using DUIK Bassel to control the character movements. I have the character broken into multiple Shape Layers (structures) and hence finding it difficult to scale & position the 100% sized character to 50% smaller at the start of animation.
I can manage the walk cycle and the path, however would really appreciate some help on how to scale and position the multiple layers.
*I have tried the Null Layer option but this doesn’t work, as linking the layers to a null layer will disable the parent linking to DUIK Controllers.Thank you very much!
Billy Spider
Graphix – AI 24.2.3 | AE 17.1.2 | PS 21.2.1 |
Premiere Pro 14.3.1 | InDesign
Web Development – HTML | CSS | PHP | JavaScript | Magento Development -
2 Replies
-
When I do animations like that. I create my models in a precomp. I will give them a walk cycle, but without any position or scale keyframes. Then I take my model precomp and put it into my final composition. Then you can do move(position) the model across the ramp and adjust the scale. I made a quick example of the hierarchy you can see in the example file.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
Alright, that sounds like a good solution. Thanks for your help. Will try that out!
Billy Spider
Graphix – AI 24.2.3 | AE 17.1.2 | PS 21.2.1 |
Premiere Pro 14.3.1 | InDesign
Web Development – HTML | CSS | PHP | JavaScript | Magento Development
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up