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Using Photos for animation. Preparing your character.

I’m making a character using photos of a famous person: Daivid Cameron. I’ve chosen him because being elected the next British Prime Minister it should be easy to find photos of him on the internet. In the last blog entry I gathered a few pictures of Cameron to work on. Today I’ve concentrated on [...]

Animation: Roody Roo ready for animation.

Here’s the finished character of Roody Roo ready to animate in After Effects.

Adding detail to animal character for animation.

Having transported my character into Illustrator and converted all the pieces into vector based layers I’m now going to add some detail. I’ve added ears, eyes and a mouth.

Next time I’ll be finishing off my character all ready for animating.

Preparing animal characters for animation in After Effects

Following on from the entry on Wednesday I’ve imported my animal over to Illustrator and converted each part into a vector based layer. I’ve also coloured it.

Tomorrow I shall add details to my character

Animation: Moving your character in After Effects using rotation points.

I’ve come a long way from designing my character, to preparing it in Photoshop, then rigging it Illustrator to be used in After Effects. I’ve linked my layers and put all the character’s mouths in a seperate composition that I used time remapping to enable easy switching from one to the other. Now I [...]