Join George Maestri for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating mouths that move with a head turn, part of Creating Animated Characters in After Effects.
So now, at this point we have the mouth connected to a slider, and everything…attached to the head.…So let's go ahead and add in the expressions that are going to allow those…mouths to move with the head turn.…So the first thing I want to do is create an animation.…I'm going to go ahead and zoom in to my head here so we can see what we're…doing, and I want to create an animation of my head turning.…And I'm going to match my new mouths to the old mouths of that head,…and that way I'll have some numbers that I can work with to actually create the expressions.…
The first thing I'm going to do is go ahead and zoom in on my Timeline, make…sure I'm at 0 here, and I want to zoom in enough so I can get to Frame 10 and…Frame 20 pretty easily.…So now we're going to animate a HEAD TURN of this HEAD…So I'm going to set my slider to 0, move to Frame 0, and set a keyframe.…Go to Frame 10, set that slider to 10, set another keyframe.…And we're going to do same for Frame 20.…So now you can see what we've done here;…
Author
George Maestri
Released
9/8/2011- Importing Illustrator or Photoshop files into After Effects
- Animating shapes
- Organizing scenes with null layers
- Working with the Puppet tool
- Creating replacement animation using time remapping
- Automating head turns
- Creating a master control node with Expression Controls effects
- Setting up a scene for animation
- Animating dialogue
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 13s
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1. Designing Characters
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Designing joints3m 40s
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Drawing mouths2m 12s
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Drawing hands and eyelids2m 48s
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2. Drawing Characters in After Effects
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Drawing in After Effects3m 57s
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Animating shapes1m 34s
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3. Assembling Characters Using Hierarchies
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Assembling the upper body4m 47s
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4. Working with the Puppet Tool
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Controlling mesh density2m 15s
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Creating overlap pins4m 43s
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Creating starch pins3m 1s
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5. Replacement Animation
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Mouth replacement6m 6s
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Creating blinks6m 14s
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6. Automating Head Turns
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7. Automating Character Rigs with Expressions
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Working with absolute values6m 12s
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8. Advanced Puppet Tool Rigging
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9. Animating a Scene
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Animating dialogue5m 39s
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Animating blinks5m 50s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye18s
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