Character Animation in AfterEffects - Tips&Tricks Chapter 3

A lot of you guys have been asking question about how I animate character so I thought to put together a serie of 5/6 tutorials to show my workflow. There are so many things to say that I am really not sure these tutorial will be exhaustive, but I hope you will find them useful to develop your own process.
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[@benjamming1260]

Man! I'm learning so much with your tutorials! Simple, fast and easy. Many thanks!

[@JesseMoffett]

SO GOOD! Please make in-depth tutorials for every step of your process! I'll pay anything! :)

[@lavykyoga2402]

love all of your videos. Keep it up!

[@dinaadel4582]

wow, you make every thing looks so easy

[@maniatiko_co553]

Amazing art work, thank U very much for share with us your knowledge, thank U.

[@mohammadalamin7711]

this is a different file that you made in illustrator in episode 2. thanks for this great tutorial series

[@arianepetitclerc2262]

Really helpful!

[@arianepetitclerc2262]

For those who look for it, I've dowloaded the new "Move Anchor Point" plug-in here:
www.batchframe.com/blog/Move-Anchor-Point-3-:-Now-Available

[@breathingtokyo]

Thanks for this tutorials mate, I appreciate it

[@monstermikey9218]

is good....... is new forma me.... I like your tutorial.....

[@ChrisCampbellGames]

Really wish these tutorials were in depth with some voice over explanations

[@ema_colombo]

+Chris Campbell Unfortunately I am not very fluent in English, that's why I prefer to upload simple screencast more than a complete tutorial.
Anyway, as you can see yourself, this animation is based on very simple actions (I just play around with position, rotation and scale), so I hope it is clear enough.
If you have any question just let me know

[@lunawon5402]

Very cool video! Can i download the after effects project file anywhere?

[@somehannahperson]

Hey Emanuele, why do you slide the work area bar at the top of the layers from 0:00f to have it start at 16f?

[@davidlopez8576]

Hi!
i love this tutorial since i'm learning by myself this lovely type of animation! thank you so much for sharing :)
i want to know how you transform the photograms like in 0:47 and 1:08 (what's the keyboard shortcut)

[@ema_colombo]

+David Lopez Alt+click on the stopwatch

[@user-dq7bc9vn1f]

nice

[@_danielromao]

Really nice your sequence of these tutorials. Still I'm trying to figure out what plug-in are you using? It's clear it's third party plug-in. Could you share us the plug-in names you're using?

[@leokastor]

Rubberhose most likely

[@ema_colombo]

I made these tutorials to show my "plug-in-less" technique cause I was tired of answering "I don't use any" to the people who keep on asking "what plug-in do you use" on my Instagram page. But still... :)
No plug-in will make your animation better, keyframing abilities makes the difference. Rubberhose is an amazing tool, and I actually use it from time to time on simple animation, but on loop of this kind, where is crucial to have total control on every single movement, layer parenting is still the best solution, and will always be.

[@_danielromao]

Emanuele Colombo
Nice! Thanks for the reply and the patience because you often find this kind of question.
If you allow me a suggestion in video descripition it's not saying that is a "plug-in-less" technique. Your videos are awesome! Congratulation for your work!

[@RaquelFantasia]

1:21 "Move Anchor Point" is not from Adobe After Effects. It's very useful and free.

[@tansy2003]

What is the expression you type? Is it: loopOut[*pingpong*]

[@ema_colombo]

+Noah Johnson loopOut("pingpong")

[@AbhijeetWankhade]

Oh you didn't show how did you import the file from AI to AE

[@nathalymarquez8589]

🏰🏰👜