Friday, September 12, 2014

How to create a character in after effects

Basic Character Skillz
WARNING  
This tutorial is for people with average skills with Adobe After Effects
I am creating a video at the time to show every single step for absolute begginers                          
Adobe After Effects
Step 1 Creating a character will vary in difficulty as in you will need to decide how much complicated it needs to be. First you will need to a idea of your character and you’ll need means to draw and create this character(I recommend paint tool sai) Create a 1280x720 canvas and be ready to start drawing!

Step 2 Creating a character will require you to separate each different “body part” onto different layers. Make different layers, or if you're using paint tool sai, create a linework layer.
Step 3 Drawing each part onto different layers will take time, but as soon as you finish your character different layers and all, you will need to save it as .psd so we will be able to keep the layers separate.

Step 4 Next you will need to transfer this document into either adobe after effects or adobe flash by importing your character into a new 1280x720 project.

Step 5 Adobe After Effects
To have a animatable character you will have to go into each layer and place pins onto places where you want your character to pivot. Here's a video that I found very helpful in explaining that.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Update

As a update to what I've said in the past few days I will post a tutorial on how make a character for adobe after effects and/or flash. Tomorrows animation will also be included so hope yall enjoy :)

Respect

In honor of those that died on 9/11 I hope everyone has had time to show respect for those that died that day and those who continue to die on the battlefield, fighting for what they believe. I hope someday all soldiers of all countries will be no longer have to sacrifice for their country or rights, and the ones they love, and we won't end up with one less human being to the to the plight of war.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

there will be cake


By tomorow I should have a quick animation that looks like this. I've been messing around with after effects for the longest of times now and this should be a piece of cake.. CURSE YOU GLaDOS!!!

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

What can you do?


Unfortunately I will have to delay my first animation by two more days. It really is frustrating when my personal life gets in front of my hobbies, but what can you do.

Monday, September 8, 2014

So...

Mmmmm... Taco Bell. Anyways, i'm going to post a video of a stick-man tomorrow but I got nothing done productively today. So i will now post a picture of catbug from the internet. (owned by cartoon hangover obviously)

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Gas mask + armor + Luna =

Alright so continuing my conceptual armor designs I tried this out. Although it's sick looking I might not be able to use it in a futuristic setting, which is what I need a futuristic armor design for. I'll take my time to ponder over it of course.