CC2222 MOTION GRAPHIC DESIGN
Adobe After Effects Task
Character Rigging / Animate Shape Layer
As a part of the weekly task, we are now required to choose from two tutorials in which we are required to do either Character Rigging or Animate Shape Layer. I chose to do Animate Shape Layer with the tutorial from ECAbrams as my reference. As per the requirement, I customized the character and background of my own as well as the behavior of my character.
I chose to customize my character as Bard from The Simpsons and in the video he will be doing a skateboard trick and towards the end he will skate out of the frame.
How it was done:
I started by shaping the body parts which are the torso, hips, arms and legs and start animating the movements of each parts.
Then, I duplicate the arms and legs and mirrored it. I then parent the arms to the torso layer and I parent the legs to the hips layer.
Afterwards, I added the head and skateboard into the scene as well as the background. To finalize, I created my character's motion by editing the position to make it look like he is jumping and for the skateboard, I played around with the position and rotation to make it look like he is doing the skateboard trick.
Final Output for the Animated Shape Layer task
Reference:
Animate Shape Layer Arms & Legs by ECAbrams
Nadziratul Nadzirah Ibrahim
BSc. Creative Multimedia
Universiti Teknologi Brunei
