Walk Cycle in After Effects & Photoshop | Motion Design Workflow
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In this After Effect & Photoshop workflow tutorial, I breakdown my process for creating this walk cycle animation & creating that grain texture frame by frame. I'm using this amazing illustration from the talented Sandro Rybak.
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You are not only an animator, but also a real artist who know how to draw and breakdown an illustration. Absolutely incredible talent!
This "lock transparent pixels" trick in Photoshop is so handy! I used to literally create a clipping mask for each layer before to make shading. Thank you big time!
yes
Your tutorials and videos are simply amazing. It's just fascinating to see progress and thoughts behind work of excellent artists.
Super cool man! I'm a huge fan of Sandro's work, so seeing you make a video with it was wonderful, perfect combo! Keep the quality content coming
Such a great video! Learned a lot, even things I’ve already known just refined my understanding
This is insane! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you so much for the tutorial, as always, it's well explained !
I love this walk cycle! It looks amazing!!
Thanks so much for the skill share deal! really appreciate it, and as always thanks for the amazing tutorials!
I love this so much. Beautiful art and animation!
youve literally saved my life, i got an animation commision recently which is my first commission ever, and i've literally just been using your techniques to make it. i cant wait to finish it and tag you. it's a bit rough, but i really like the way i did the background thanks to you
That's great! Please tag me away, haha. I can't wait to see it!! :)
Amazing work! Thanks for the super clear explanation.
I really love your work!
I have much to learn! Didn't really understand how great the dissolve blend mode could be for textures!
Thanks for sharing!
I think this is the first video I've ever seen without downvotes on youtube. You are the best and thanks for animating this Ben. You are the hero CZcams deserves.
Thank you so much for the awesome support, I really appreciate it! :)
Omg the level of detail is awesome
This is seriously amazing man! Out of this world...
This is great!
So AMAZING!!! Thank you soooo much!
Awesome as always Ben! You are my favorite designer and CZcamsr :D Your content is amazing and I really can't say thank you enough because you help me improve my work so much and you do it in a way that is entertaining, easy to follow and straight to the point! You are the best! Thank you so so sooooo much!
Superb Ben
This was so helpful! Thanks for explaining everything so clearly.
you're really doing god's work by being amazing at making animation and tutorials !
Brilliant.
Omg!! The process of figuring out the timing and the poses of the walk cycle is amazing. Thanks ❤❤
once again, amazing video!!
Definitely had to smash that subscribe button. Very informative and interesting! Keep up the fantastic work!
Thank you so much, this is so inspiring!!
Pure amazingness!
Love your your drive :) and your series. Just started out with motion design, Yours and TipTuts are my favourites
Glad you like them! Thanks so much for watching :)
*Just Mind Blowing*
This is so amazing, thank you so much for your tutorials, I learn so much . I'm always grateful to you :)
Thank you so much for watching :D I really appreciate the support
Really cool Ben!
exactly what I need. thanks
thank youuuuuuuuu
too good!
Amazing!
awesome! Love the tip with the cc bend effect :O I always used the puppet tool and it can be such a sisyphus work. I just signed up for skillshare - I definitly want to improve as motion designer as I feel a bit stuck at work right now. I'm a junior and have just around 2y experience but work alone so I don't have any design feedback ever. I guess I will try to share my work I will do with skillshare tutorials to get feedback. Can't wait to start. You are making me want to learn more! Every video has so many little tips which can help tremendously in improving workflow and save time. Especially right now when we work from home and it is hard to keep motivating oneself.
Great walking
This is absolute gold
As someone who frequently monitors snek movement, dis boii looks gud
Haha, that means the world to me
thanks
amazing! thanks for sharing :D
so cool
great work & great animation process explaination
Thanks so much! I really appreciate you watching :D
This was great, really interesting to see the process !
Thanks so much for watching :D Glad you enjoyed it :)
Another killer video! It's so interesting to see your workflow.
Really amazing. Hope seeing a festival talk somewhere in europe soon. ;) (maybe mouvo in prague?)
Thanks so much for the 2 months free of skillshare. Going to fully utilise that. You're the best
Thank you ben, I was thinking that only Illustrator can drag and play in AE, but Photoshop can do it too, so awesome tutorial ben !
Useful Tutorial Ben!
Thanks Romal! Glad you liked it :)
wow! it is cool!)
this is great
Amazing, as always.
I was wondering throughout watching, if any of these hand-drawn steps could also be done in AE and would it be necesarily faster? Like the dissolve/ grain shading could be masked shape layers that are done frame-by-frame in AE instead, would that still be as time-consuming as doing it hand drawn? Or the wave on the cloak using a few wave warps and some other tricks?
Was this the most efficient way of animating this illustration for you personally, or did you just want to share your hand-drawn process? Although I also get that you'd wanna do it hand-drawn to preserve the feeling / intention of the illustrator :) Either way. I LOVE IT.
Great Job! :D
This like to found GOLD! Just awesome man! Love it!
Thank you so much! So glad you found it useful :D
@@BenMarriott Just like aways! Keep goin man!
@@LucasEduardoRibas Always going to keep going :D thanks for the support!
first of all: I love you man! Love your work & your tuts,
A question: is there a practical reason to copy/paste all the frames instead of using a loopOut expression?
Just enrolled in your motion practice course! Cheers Ben
Welcome aboard! Hope you enjoy it :)
Nice tutorial!
Thanks Pan! :D
So glad I've found you.
awesome
beautiful:)
Hi Ben, latent I’ve been almost binging your video’s and tutorials and I really love them and learn a great deal because of them. But I’ve been wondering how you installed Animdessin2 to Photoshop and how you combine it with using your Ipad? I would really love to have this plug-in to start making some more stop motion animations with Photoshop. Could you explain how you do that? Great thanks for all your amazing video’s and help.
I want to know where you bought the brush you used! The brush has a really dramatic effect :)
6 or 7 hours!!!!? Woooa you're good i love your videos
ive always wondered how people make those gifs. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching :)
Hello Ben!! Thanks for the awesome vid as usual. But i want to know how you create the legs in photoshop. I was using animate and is not working for my tablet. Maybe photoshop can be a good option. Thank you!!
It's really nice to see you replying to every comment here, great job with the video and stay safe!
Thanks so much :D I do my best for the first day the video is released. Thanks for the support
first! Just want to say this is awesome, you're killing it!
Zoe Cheese Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed it :)
Totally!!!!
wow~~good!^^
Hi Ben, I really love your work and enjoy your videos, I only have one question, how do you import the PSD files so the layers and the timing has the same editing as in photoshop, as for me when I import my files to after, I have to break everything down again adjust the layers put them into order, etc, is there any plug-in or other trick for that? Thanks in advance, I appreciate it if you have the time to answer (or anybody else who reads this and knows the trick ;) )
you are the man, don't forget that
Thanks so much :)
@@BenMarriott Never animated in after effects but used the stuff I learned to make a short little lyric vid today! also learned the hard way that after effects doesn't auto-save until you've saved the file once tho first. big bummer. at least my layers were labeled
@@BenMarriott Used the gradient background and basic after effects stuff to make a lyric video for my band on this account! Simple and nothing special, but your videos really helped.
The intro is just the best since the cartoon network one
벤 마리오트 내 생명의 은인이시다~
I have a question. I really want to get into animating, but to be honest my drawing ability is quite poor, especially on my wacom tablet. I can barely get lines to go where I want them, making even simple stick-figure animation a little frustration. Do you suggest I stop and improve my drawing first before animating or just stick with it and hope I improve both skills as I go? I haven't really made too much progress with either skill and I just want to make stuff that looks cool. Thanks in advance and I really liked this video, awesome stuff!
And so this is my first time on your channel. And now I know what can be hidden behind the bat
Haha, thanks for coming to the dark side :D
There are a less number of grains of sand in this earth than a couple of videos of Ben. 😂
As always, Great video. Loved it!
I find it a lot easier to animate the character walking with the feet fixed on the ground and adding the slide in the end. That way the individual curves of movement become more noticable.
Flawless as always mate, such a inspiring and amazing process.
Just one question: why did you duplicate those layers so many times? loopOut the precomp would not have the same result? or there is a special reason that i dont catch?
Thanks so much. That method gives a dropped frame at the end of the loop, which work's fine for a lot of purposes. But when working on 2's that can get really chaotic and hard to adjust too. I wish there was a better way of looping comps, I find copying doesn't take that long and works all the time. It's a very inelegant solution, but it's the best I've found. :)
@@BenMarriott makes sense, thanks for the answer! you're the man!
10:44 time warp and use loopOut() on your prefab and maaagic ! It's looping
edit: nvm you used it right after...
I need that brush! pleas 🙏🏼
did you redraw the head and flower pole thing too? xD or did you just redraw the cape and legs for animating? How did you get the head and flower pole to move if you didn't redraw it? :0
do you mind if you tell me what you use about the brush set in this project? because had an awesome impact on the illustration.
I'm not exactly sure what brushes were used by Sandro in the design. I used the default soft round brush set to dissolve for the shading, and suspect they did too :)
Okay, Thanks a lot for taking care. By the way, your videos are great. I subscribed.
Hello! Really like your videos. Could you include the .psd file of the character for me to follow along, and practice? Thanks, man!
How is the snake movement different from the flame? I just can't figure it out!
very nice. the only problem is the fire. it feels too rigid, needed some more bumpiness/twirling.
You’re the fuckin master!!
would anyone be able to tell me how to color-code the frames in animdessin?
wow everyone like, Ben you're cool)
Thanks pal!
Great video ,I learn a lot..I don't know that there is a plug-in called AnimDessin2.Its an important knowledge for me.Thank u for that.Please give the download link for AnimDessin2
Hello Ben and all people from youtube. Does anyone know where can I get Animdessin2 for Photoshop 2020? Thanks a lot!
are you still using that ps animation plugin? still functioning for CSS 2021?
When you are going to review next showreels?
I'm in no way an animator (is that how it's called?) but i watched all your videos because they're so entertaining and inspiring
what is the style of drawing?
last frame Sam first frame / walk cycle
What is the name of the shadowing style?
Plz tell us how to use one walk cycle again and again so that we can save our time plzz sir
may i know why you didnt do this in duik?
Сan't you go to Interpret Footage > Loop (x times) instead of copying ? It works for sure if you import your animation as a .psd (not comp). Props: if you don't like how it looks you can change the time framing inside PS and it automaticly corrects in AE.
Yeah, the trouble is with it not working with compositions . :( If it did that would be the dream. It's definitely the best way to loop footage :D
@@BenMarriott But why do you need it as comps? You can save it as separate psd's with just the layers you need on and import it without making it a comp (there's an option when importing). At least I did it while handling loads of animations to composite.
@@BenMarriott Yep! I checked it in AE (ah those midnight questions). While importing .psd you should import is as "footage">"merged layers", and then you can loop loop loop loop loop. I don't know if there are any side effects to this method (I personally never noticed any), but maybe it will be helpful.