Pushing Your Animations in After Effects and Blender: Lab Time 05/09/2023
00:00 setting up your Illustrator file for Character Rigging
01:48 Importing your Character into After Effects the correct way
02:17 opening sequence
02:23 continuously rasterizing your Illustrator layers
02:46 identifying and naming your layers if not named in Illustrator
04:19 reorganizing your layers in the timeline
04:26 parenting your layers into a character rig
05:33 fixing your anchor points so character moves properly
08:00 creating our walk cycle
11:01 adding a wiggle expression to rotation for animating the tail of our dog character
11:41 adding a wiggle expression to rotation for animating the ear
12:02 adding rotation for animating the head
12:24 follow through and overlapping action- animating the hat to have more motion caused by the head motion
13:04 recap and talking about the 12 principles of animation
13:23 adding squash and stretch to our walking character
13:57 using CC Bender and a wiggle expression to add some sway and swish to our characters coat
15:01 adding a loopout expression to all of our keyframed stopwatches
16:59 testing out our rigged, looping character
17:16 parenting layers to head like eye lids
18:45 creating a long background for our looping character to walk through
20:12 animating position of our long scene and the precomposed looping character
22:01 Blender: discussing render settings Eevee
24:06 Blender: discussing Cycles render settings
26:14 Blender: discussing the compositor and denoising ad glare nodes
29:05 discussing render test times
30:30 Blender: discussing add on Blenderkit
32:48 Blender: discussing add on Easy HDRI
34:08 Blender: using the AI denoising render for faster single frame renders- not to be used for animating
35:39 After Effects: trouble shooting Mattes in a complex scene
45:51 Discussion on deleting unnecessary layers form complex artwork in Illustrator
51:01 creating a long scene for character to walk through- using effect: Grid
52:29 3d enabling grid layer to add perspective to the floor
54:14 how to find the stock footage in Canvas I uploaded for students
55:55 creating transitions and reveals using Alpha Mattes and Luma Mattes in After Effects
1:05:00 discussion on title safe and action safe areas
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