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2D Character Animation in After Effects

Import and Animate Layered Illustrator Files

Table of Contents

Best Practices for Importing Source Files

Importing Options 06:23
Browsing Files in Adobe Bridge 01:39
Dragging and Dropping from the Finder/Explorer 01:33

Sorting and Interpreting Footage

Sorting Files 03:13
Interpret Footage Options for Transparency and Gradients 03:30

Animating Using Traditional Layer-Style Animation

Setting Up Anchor Points 06:57
Keyframing Transform Properties 04:52
Keyframe Types 05:25
Fine-Tuning Animation with the Graph Editor 04:25

Creating a Grouping Structure for Body Parts

Precomposing to Create Groups 07:59
Using Parenting to Create Hierarchical Animation 06:22

Animating with the Puppet Tool

Recording Animation with the Puppet Tool 12:45
Animating the Overlap Tool 04:14
Using the Starch Tool to Control Deformations 04:44

Creating Stop-Frame-Style Animation

Animating Paint Strokes with the Paintbrush 07:04
Sequencing Hand-Drawn Layers 05:54

Expressions and Scripting

Linking Properties 08:48
Using the Linear and Ease Expressions 08:13
Applying Loop Expressions 07:28
Using Audio to Control Animation 05:55
Setting Up Control Layers 07:51
Scripts That Aid in Inverse Kinematics 09:50

Animating Using Time Remapping

Keyframing Facial Expressions 04:51
Automatically Lip-Syncing to Audio 06:57

Output Options
Exporting Files for Flash 03:00

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 Exporting Files for Flash 03:00
Making Movies via the Render Queue 04:31

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