After Effects CC Puppet Tool

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Jason Cox

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01 - Course Overview

01 - Course Overview.mp4

01:16

02 - Setting up Your Puppet

02 - What Makes a Good Puppet.mp4

01:45

03 - Importing the Puppet and Creating a Composition.mp4

03:21

04 - Adding Basic Puppet Position Pins.mp4

03:12

05 - Manipulating Important Puppet Effect Parameters.mp4

03:30

06 - Altering Mesh Parameters.mp4

03:31

03 - Animating and Perfecting Your Puppet Movements

07 - Recording Animation in Real Time.mp4

06:34

08 - Animating Multiple Pins.mp4

06:04

09 - Stiffening with Starch Pins.mp4

04:36

10 - Adding Bend Pins.mp4

06:22

11 - Adding Overlap Pins.mp4

09:20

12 - Create a Breathing Effect.mp4

05:54

13 - Animating with Expressions.mp4

08:07

04 - Creating a Multistage Animation

14 - Prepping the Puppet and Stage.mp4

04:59

15 - Animating the Skull Toss.mp4

08:09

16 - Animating the Skull Spike.mp4

06:29

17 - Altering Spatial Interpolation.mp4

03:28

18 - Altering Temporal Interpolation.mp4

06:09

19 - Adding Masks.mp4

07:16

05 - Creating a Walking Animation

20 - Setting up the Layered Character.mp4

05:04

21 - Establishing a Starting Pose with Advanced Pins.mp4

04:35

22 - Animating the Legs.mp4

07:28

23 - Animating the Arms.mp4

03:24

24 - Creating Additional Body Movement.mp4

03:13

25 - Animating a Walk Cycle.mp4

04:17

26 - Walking into the Club.mp4

05:06

Project_Files

setting-up-your-puppet-slides.pdf

module 1 - setting up your puppet end.zip
module 1 - setting up your puppet start.zip

animating-and-perfecting-your-puppet-movements-slides.pdf

module 2 - animating and adjusting puppet movements end.zip
module 2 - animating and adjusting puppet movements start.zip

creating-a-multistage-animation-slides.pdf

module 3 - creating a multistaged animation end.zip
module 3 - creating a multistaged animation start.zip

creating-a-walking-animation-slides.pdf

module 4 - multi layered puppets and walking end.zip
module 4 - multi layered puppets and walking start.zip

fortress oreshek . king tower (korolevskaya). interior of the dungeon.zip
rogo png.zip
rogo (layered) 1500px.zip
skull.zip

club bg.zip
shirley.zip

Description

Learn how to take static, drawn characters and objects and turn them into moving, breathing animated entities with After Effects' Puppet Tool.

What You'll Learn?

As a motion graphic designer, you are great at making text or images zip around your screen in entertaining ways. But what about when you are given a drawing of a character or creature and actually want them to, well, move like a character or creature would? Enter the Puppet Tool. In this course, After Effects CC Puppet Tool, you will learn how to animate static characters and turn them into bendable, dynamic creations. First, you will discover what makes for a good puppet. Next, you will learn when to use the various types of pins. Finally, you will explore how to build walking animations for your puppets. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of the puppet tool needed to bring your characters to life.

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Jason Cox

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Jason has spent most of his life in and around the nation's capital. After a stint as a Creative for Apple, Jason became an Apple Certified Trainer in 2009, followed shortly thereafter as an Adobe Certified Instructor. In 2012, Jason published his first training book, the Final Cut Pro X Cookbook, and currently produces online training courses for PluralSight, writes for screenlight.tv, and works as an independent certified trainer of Adobe and Apple software. He's also presented at NAB and the Government Video Expo. In his spare time, Jason loves to drink chocolate milk, play old school video games, attend concerts, and travel near and far by train, plane, and motorcycle.

Pluralsight

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Pluralsight, LLC is an American privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website. Founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams, the company has its headquarters in Farmington, Utah. As of July 2018, it uses more than 1,400 subject-matter experts as authors, and offers more than 7,000 courses in its catalog. Since first moving its courses online in 2007, the company has expanded, developing a full enterprise platform, and adding skills assessment modules.