Be a part of movement designer Tim Lucke as he walks by way of his character animation course of in Adobe After Results. He’ll use expression controls, monitor mattes, and character rigging to carry an animated intro to life!
On this lesson, Tim will present you how you can do character rigging in After Results to be able to management the animation of various elements of your character, independently. To be taught extra, you’ll be able to watch the entire free After Results course Grasp Movement Design – Dynamic Character Animation in After Results.
Earlier than We Begin
What’s Character Rigging in After Results?
Think about joints and elements of an individual that will transfer. Including unbiased management to these elements with the view of animating them, is rigging. This might be legs and arms, eyes and facial options, and so forth! You may rig each 2D and 3D characters, this is how Adobe defines that:
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‘2D animation rigging. With 2D animation rigging you merely draw the character or object in 2D after which apply the specified bone construction to it. This can be easier than a 3D mannequin and restricted in motion.’ – Adobe
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‘3D animation rigging. A extra widespread observe is 3D animation rigging. Right here the total mannequin might be rigged and posed inside your scene, with the power to create a a lot wider vary of motion, whether or not animating a personality or object.’ – Adobe
How you can Do Character Rigging in After Results
Lock Layer
Tube Layer is so large that we would unintentionally preserve choosing it, so to lock that, click on the padlock icon and that is going to cease that from taking place.
Parenting Layers
Now we simply have our child, we wish to mum or dad the layers collectively to make the character work as one piece. They’re all separate proper now, so if I moved the physique solely that will transfer, no different elements. We wish the physique to be the layer that every thing else is connected to, so if we do the principle animation for the physique, every thing else will comply with.
To mum or dad one layer to a different you simply seize the choose whip and drag it to that layer. Within the screenshot above I am grabbing the traces from the shirt and parenting that to the Physique layer.
Be certain that the play head is the place you need the parenting to happen. I’ve obtained it proper at the start so every thing’s all lined up, however as soon as issues begin shifting round it could get somewhat difficult.
Then you’ll be able to simply preserve parenting the remainder of your layers in the identical manner.
Right here, I am parenting the 2 arms to the Physique, you’ll be able to hit command (or management) to pick out a number of layers at one time.
Suppose logically about what must be parented to every layer. We have been parenting to the physique, however in fact Hair must be parented to Head as a result of they are going to transfer collectively, and similar with the eyes.
The one exception right here is Left Hand Over, that is a particular layer so I wish to mum or dad that to left hand, which suggests no matter Left Hand is doing, Left Hand Over will mimic precisely.
Then I will set all of the keyframes for Left Hand and switch off Left Hand simply earlier than Left Hand Over goes over the tube form. It is somewhat trick to have the layer each in entrance and behind on the similar time with out getting overly advanced. You may see somewhat extra on this in our subsequent lesson, after we have a look at how you can add monitor mattes in After Results.
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Featured After Results Template
Pictogram Character Package
This character animation template for After Results has 60 characters to select from with 135 equipment. You may create loopable animations, mix modules, use the absolutely rigged character, or create excessive decision nonetheless pictures.
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About This Web page
This web page was written by Marie Gardiner from the transcript of a course by Tim Lucke. Marie is a author, creator, and photographer. It was edited by Gonzalo Angulo. Gonzalo is an editor, author and illustrator.
