Motion sketching captures the movements of your mouse and records it as position keyframes for a selected layer.
- [Narrator] One of the fastest ways … to add Position animation inside of After Effects … is to use something called Motion Sketching. … After Effects has the ability … to capture your mouse movements … and translate that into keyframed animation. … Here in this movie we'll look at … how to use Motion Sketching. … In this finished example, … I've got my idea guy floating through the air … as he makes his way towards the thief's magnet. … Let's go ahead and preview this … and you can see my idea guy takes off … and does a couple of loop-de-loops … and ends up right on that magnet. … All that movement from our idea guy … is thanks to Motion Sketching. … Let's see how we can use this. … Under our Motion Sketch start composition … I'll select my idea guy and the first thing I want to do … is alter my Anchor Point. … I want the action or the rotation … to kind of happen around the light bulb, … since that's what's kind of leading this character … as he makes his way towards that magnet. …
Author
Alan Demafiles
Released
8/12/2019- Shape layers and masks
- Track mattes
- Rigging characters
- Using the Puppet tool for rigging
- Adding and adjusting keyframes
- Looping animation
- Animating with motion paths and motion sketch
- Adding cameras for multiplane environments
- Lighting animation
- Rendering animation
Skill Level Beginner
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome51s
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Before you start2m 59s
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After Effects for animation1m 59s
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Big picture concepts2m 17s
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1. Working with Layers and Shapes
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What art assets can I use?1m 17s
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Shape layer intro8m 12s
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Shape layer vs. masks5m 21s
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Track mattes5m 40s
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Precomposing7m 11s
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Artwork tips and tricks6m 26s
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2. Rigging Character Controls
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What is rigging?32s
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Anchor points6m 29s
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The Puppet tool5m 21s
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Fine-tune the Puppet tool6m 19s
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Introduction to expressions7m 50s
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Set up a slider controller7m 26s
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Version master properties6m 47s
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Useful effects for rigging4m 30s
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3. Working with Animation
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Principles of animation2m 12s
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Add and adjust keys7m 34s
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Use the graph editor: Speed5m 57s
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Use the graph editor: Value4m 56s
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Looping animation6m 54s
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Motion paths9m 9s
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Work with audio tracks5m 54s
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Switch art for lip sync9m 16s
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Animate with motion sketch5m 34s
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4. Creating Multiplane Environments
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Add cameras5m 17s
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Rendering4m 35s
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Conclusion
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Next steps43s
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