Character Animation in After Effects Workflow | Animating Great Artists | William Nghiem
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2019
- The second episode in a new series "Animating Great Artists," where I show motion designers how to approach animating work of a variety of styles and show illustrators how to approach animating their own work.
In this episode, I'm tackling the work of William Nghiem. I go through the process of character animation in Photoshop to After Effects workflow. This tutorial is suitable for beginners - intermediate users.
Illustration by William Nghiem:
/ williamnghiem
willcan.design/
Sound Design by the Amazing Erin Holmes:
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erinholmes.me/
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"Le Grand Chase" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Magic Scout - Farm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Killing Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Just discovered this channel and I'm so glad I did. I'm studying as an illustrator/graphic designer and animating in Ae is incredibly intimidating to me, but you make it look easy.
amazing! that hair transition to wave warping is genius
People need such simple and in depth tutorials... Will always love to shout you out... Big ❤️ from India.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the kind words :D
Aaaahhh i finally able to watch this tutorial as I've been busy with work, and i remember this on your instastories. The toggle hold key is something I never even knew, because i would have applied one key frame, copied that paste it just before the start of another keyframe!
Hey Ben, one thing I thought of is for your eye blink, you have a set of keyframes on both layers so you would need to change more than one layers keyframes if you wanted different timings, etc. I would recommend only using one layer and using an expression for additional layers. So you could have keyframes on the 'eyes - closed' layer, and the eyes open layer(s) can follow these keyframes, just in reverse via an expression!
Code:
BLINK = 100; //swap 100 with the correct figure
BLINK-thisComp.layer("Eyes - Closed").transform.opacity
I understand that this might not be much of a big deal, but if you're amending projects for clients, it's best to get things easier to be changed. With my method, you can modify the keyframes of one layer and it will control multiple more!
This is awesome! Thanks so much :D every layer counts. Love to find new ways to be more efficient. Thank you for sharing :)
Loving this series! Learning so much by just watching your workflow
Totally digging this series!! I can't wait for your next collaboration!
Thank you! Stay tuned for the next one, it's going to be fun!
Simple but so deeep
Haha, you're welcome, I hope you'll enjoy all of them :)
SO TALENTED
Nice work as always Ben! Love seeing your workflow and tips!
Thank you so much for the awesome support Brandon! Really appreciate it :)
Im glad there is adobe character animator now. This looks like a LOT of work!
Haha, it's worth it for the results, character animator still looks very janky. Hopefully in the future it'll improve more :) Still not bad for lip-sync on a budget though
i am HERE and ready to learn
Thank you for showing up :D
you are absolutely underrated!
That's AMAZING!
You're amazing for watching! :D Thanks so much
Great work!
Thank you dude for these videos :)
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us YOU ARE Amazing!!
Thanks so much for watching! :D I really appreciate it
i am about to steal this homework!!!
The best chanel!!! continue dude!!!
Thanks so much! :D I really appreciate it
I like u r ( works and tutorials ).So I support u 🤝🤝🤝BM.
I really love the way you find time to reply to every comment and even like them🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻not to mention awesome tutorial as always🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻can you put up a tutorial on fake 3d rotate😍
Thank you! I know it's easy to just not leave a comment, so I really appreciate the people who take the time to give positive feedback :D That's an awesome suggestion :D I'd love to tackle that in the near future :)
thanks for your videos!! they are VERY helpful!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it :D
Love it, Ben.
How come I didn't find your channel sooner. Keep it up!
Haha, it's never too late! Thank you for watching, Jalu :)
I did not know about holding keyframes; so very useful - thank you!
Hey Ben. Great tutorial, as always.
I would love to see a Text Logo Animation (liquid dot moves on a path and turns into characters!) tutorial from you in the future.
Anyway, keep up the great work Ben.
Thanks so much Mohsen! :D Great suggestion. I love any sort of transformation. I'll definitely try to squeeze something like that in :)
Thank you , Your video is very helpful.I would like to see tutorial about process of creating character from PS and tran to AI and how to prepare file for import to AE.
Thank you for this video. I needed this :)
Thanks so much for watching! :D I really appreciate you tuning in every week
@@BenMarriott Ben, your work is remarkable. I fantasize about becoming an animator and I'm learning by watching your videos. Thank you for everything you've shown us :)
Cooooooool
Thanks so much! :D So glad you liked it
Hey, really loving your videos and general work over on Insta. You mention that this original file is from Photoshop, could you make a tutorial on how to import Photoshop files and animate them? All the ones I’ve previously found concentrate on photos rather than illustrations.
i want more!!!
Thank you! More coming every week :D
Great tutorial Ben. Can you tell me where to get the EaseCopy script. Looks really handy. Thanks a lot.
Hi, Ben. Quick question, what are your standard composition settings for something like this? Frame rate and such?
Love the 80s Videogame music in your videos! Nostalgic :)
Thank you for this.
so cute
o preimeiro
Gracias! :D
thanks bro! very helpful!
Thanks so much for watching! :D I really appreciate it
@@BenMarriott your tuts help me a lot of bro. You are a great inspiration for me and in my last animation ( instagram.com/p/B0EJ4ICl7B3/? ), your videos showed me a better way to do my work. So really thank you my friend!
where do you get these sound effects? super cool
How many people's work does it include? Haha, thank you for always posting such high quality videos
Haha, thank you for acknowledging the hard work!
Hey love your animation here.I was just wondering how did you do the intro where the circle gets from small to big, is it just a scale effect or did you add something else to it?
That circle expanding was just with the scale effect :D Thanks so much
A new video noice.
Thanks so much! :D I really appreciate you giving it a watch :)
@@BenMarriott thank you, even though i'm considered a veteran in this field but you videos and you designs pumps me with new blood ❤️👍
Thanks amazing to hear :D
You're a legend
No! You're a legend for watching :D
I always worry/overthink about the pixel quality in a Photoshop file not being "high res" enough for a professional animation on After Effects, so I've currently just been using illustrator as vectors retain that smooth image regardless of how much I scale.
Though I do miss all the textures and ease of coloring I get in Photoshop.
May I know your thoughts about this? Are there recommended dimensions for PS files that will be imported into AE? Or is this simply a "deal with it" kinda thing with regards to Photoshop's quality?
I would like to know, what's the difference between using PhotoShop to After Effect, and using Illustrator to After Effect. Cause PhotoShop can be used for drawing with each separated layer which later moved to After Effect, and Illustrator is used like that too, so what's the difference?
Could this be applied to make the Doctor Who theme in AE? Seems similar but a bit more complex im not sure
Nice job. Just curious on background information about it. Why not use illustrator for animating vectors? Does the artist just prefer Photoshop for some reason?
Thank you! I'm not exactly sure. Most likely to have better control over those textured edges. And to have that paintbrush texture in the beard and armor. :)
@@BenMarriott I suppose that would indeed be a good reason. There's nothing wrong with working in Photoshop for this, I just prefer not to myself in case I want to resize later but that's just me.
Hey Ben, nice tutorial. I love the style of this illustration, but I ain't good creating those myself, do you know somewhere I can find illustrations like that to animate? (giving the credits, obviously) Or do you think I should create mine owns? (even if they are a bit ugly haha)
opa um brasileiro kkk
Thank you! It's always a good idea to brush up on design skills, it'll give you a huge advantage in the future. But of course, there's nothing wrong with animating others work. www.drawkit.io/ is a great resource for illustration and they have a new free one out every day.
how can i change the color of the photoshop layers in ae?
Love as always from Korea. Can you give me AI file, plz..?😭
how do i import from Photoshop to After Effects or backwards???
Can i do this but with illustrator instead?
Of course! Most of my animations are designed in illustrator :)
@@BenMarriott Thank you! im gonna try it with my vector art!
Awesome! I'd love to see what you make
Hi, need small help. I need open source app for creating characters for story in my vlogs
Cartoon network vibes