Tuesday, 15 April 2014

After Effects Motion Graphics

In order to create this effect in After Effects you'll need the knowledge of the pin tools.
To create the man walking and slipping on the banana is a lot easier then it looks, in order to do this first simply add the background into the new composition and then add the banana and scale it down to 15% so it looks normal size then press P and change the banana's position so its on the road and in a position where the man can walk onto it. Finally add the man to the compostion scale him down to 15% as well so he looks normal and the press P again to change the position so he is on the road opposite the banana so he can walk onto it.
Now to create the puppet effect, you need to select puppet tool and then select the main limbs of the man, his head, arms legs and torso. These pins will all appear in the timeline panel, and rename the puppet tools according to their position ie head, arm etc.
Human movement requires arms to swing, so as the character walks across the screnn, portions of his right arm and leg will be behind other areas of his body, to do this the puppet overlap tool need to be used to define the areas that should appear in front when areas overlap. To do this the overlap tool is selected and then the areas in which you want to overlap being the right arm and leg need to be selected to they do so.
Once this is all done the arms and legs positions need to be changed every 3 frames in a swinging motion, once he reaches the banana change the rotation so he falls backwards and finally his position so he falls down and off the screen, and not to forget to press the timer so After Effects keyframes these movements.

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