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tips on animating human figures/charachters
hi there,
I’ve done alot of compositing/motion graphics work, but i was asked to do a characther animation, and since i’ve never done anything like that in AE, like animating -arms/legs/face..etc. so i was hoping to get a few tips form people who have done this before. (this will be a simpler version of the bewitched style characthers)
I plan on making about 10 faces in ilustrator, each face for a different expression, but then once it comes to moving arms/legs i fear it will be a huge chalenge in making it look half decent. is there anyway to parent limbs together so that when you move the arm everything else reacts properly? i know in some 3d programs arms/legs move when the body is moved..
or am i looking at every limb having to be manualy animated? any and all tips would be welcome, or any online tutorials ..
thanks!
tristan. -
2 Replies
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I did a southpark style animation for uni. The big thing I found was to pay attention to detail when parenting and setting pivot points. Other than that it was pretty straight forward.
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Checkout Dan Ebbert’s Animating a Walk cycle:
https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=2&page=/articles/ebberts_dan/layer_looping/index.html
or double click Dan’s head above and see all his great tutorials.You’d have to do seperate illustration for straighton and 3/4, but they’ll work too.
If you pick up a copy of The Animator’s Survival Kit
by Richard Williams ($19 at Amazon), you get a host of walk cycles, sneaking, etc.
Just set the first pose, the mid gait, and copy the first and put it at then end (and tweak a bit, of course, after you preview), then AE does the tweens.
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