Animation 101: Follow-Through in After Effects - Easy Tip for Better Animation
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Animators often try to mimic the way things move in real life, using the principles of animation to recreate what they see with their eyes. Learning this skill is the key to creating beautiful movement regardless of the software or medium you're working with. Follow-through, or overlapping action, is a principle that can add loads of visual interest and realism to your work once you grasp it.
In this tutorial, Joey, who teaches Animation Bootcamp and our free course The Path to MoGraph, shows you one way you can apply follow-through to your After Effects work. This trick is incredibly handy because it doesn't rely on having artwork that was divided up into layers for animation.
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Joey Korenman (00:00): Howdy. I'm Joey Korenman. And in this short video, I'm going to teach you a really easy way to add life to your animation by using follow through in, after fast, This technique is an example of what we go over in our animation bootcamp class at school of motion. So make sure to check that out. If you like what you learned today, also you can download the project files I'm using in this video to follow along or to practice this technique. After you're done, watching details are in the description. What is follow through well follow through also called overlapping action is the idea that when an object moves different parts of that object move at different times, here are some examples. This project from Bee Grandinetti has followed through in a few places like in this moment when the girl jumps back and her limbs and hair move at separate times. And during the type reveal at the end in this piece that Andrew Vucko did for Google, the overlapping action is a bit more subtle, but definitely add some visual interest.
Joey Korenman (01:07): So here we have a really simple logo reveal and we've already animated most of it. And what I want you to notice is how stiff that feather feels feathers are soft objects. And so if it really was rotating up like this at the end, it wouldn't feel like a stiff board. Now, if you notice this feather is just one layer that came in from Photoshop, if it was on multiple layers, maybe we could sort of parent them together and rotate them a little bit manually to make it feel like it's bending. But what do we do when we have artwork? That's all on one layer. So here's our goal. When the feather finishes writing on this line and starts to rotate up, I want it to bend naturally like a feather using follow-through AKA overlapping action. There are two steps to this process. And the first step is to use puppet pins, which can be found up here.
Joey Korenman (01:55): The puppet pin tool works by letting us place pins inside of artwork like this. And then we can manipulate those pins to deform the artwork any way we want. Now I'm going to undo that because I need to set this up a very specific way. What I want to do is place pins along the spine of the feather like this. So I'm going to put one down towards the bottom, and then I'm going to put, I don't know, maybe three or four more up along the length of it. And then one at the very tip like this. Now, if we look at the timeline, you'll see that there have been positioned key frames set for each puppet pin. As I set them down into the feather. And what this means is I can now select my puppet effect and I can move these pins around and actually hand animate the deformation of this feather, the problem with doing it this way. And it may already be obvious to you is that if I'm not careful, I could stretch the artwork out and doing this by hand is going to be really, really tedious and not very efficient or easy to do. So what we need is a way of keeping the distance between these pins constant so that we don't accidentally stretch out our artwork.
For the full transcript visit: https://som.bz/2vZknr2
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Animators often try to mimic the way things move in real life, using the principles of animation to recreate what they see with their eyes. Learning this skill is the key to creating beautiful movement regardless of the software or medium you're working with. Follow-through, or overlapping action, is a principle that can add loads of visual interest and realism to your work once you grasp it.
In this tutorial, Joey, who teaches Animation Bootcamp and our free course The Path to MoGraph, shows you one way you can apply follow-through to your After Effects work. This trick is incredibly handy because it doesn't rely on having artwork that was divided up into layers for animation.
Follow us. Follow us to follow-through.
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Twitter | https://som.bz/2PQfSWF
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Joey Korenman (00:00): Howdy. I'm Joey Korenman. And in this short video, I'm going to teach you a really easy way to add life to your animation by using follow through in, after fast, This technique is an example of what we go over in our animation bootcamp class at school of motion. So make sure to check that out. If you like what you learned today, also you can download the project files I'm using in this video to follow along or to practice this technique. After you're done, watching details are in the description. What is follow through well follow through also called overlapping action is the idea that when an object moves different parts of that object move at different times, here are some examples. This project from Bee Grandinetti has followed through in a few places like in this moment when the girl jumps back and her limbs and hair move at separate times. And during the type reveal at the end in this piece that Andrew Vucko did for Google, the overlapping action is a bit more subtle, but definitely add some visual interest.
Joey Korenman (01:07): So here we have a really simple logo reveal and we've already animated most of it. And what I want you to notice is how stiff that feather feels feathers are soft objects. And so if it really was rotating up like this at the end, it wouldn't feel like a stiff board. Now, if you notice this feather is just one layer that came in from Photoshop, if it was on multiple layers, maybe we could sort of parent them together and rotate them a little bit manually to make it feel like it's bending. But what do we do when we have artwork? That's all on one layer. So here's our goal. When the feather finishes writing on this line and starts to rotate up, I want it to bend naturally like a feather using follow-through AKA overlapping action. There are two steps to this process. And the first step is to use puppet pins, which can be found up here.
Joey Korenman (01:55): The puppet pin tool works by letting us place pins inside of artwork like this. And then we can manipulate those pins to deform the artwork any way we want. Now I'm going to undo that because I need to set this up a very specific way. What I want to do is place pins along the spine of the feather like this. So I'm going to put one down towards the bottom, and then I'm going to put, I don't know, maybe three or four more up along the length of it. And then one at the very tip like this. Now, if we look at the timeline, you'll see that there have been positioned key frames set for each puppet pin. As I set them down into the feather. And what this means is I can now select my puppet effect and I can move these pins around and actually hand animate the deformation of this feather, the problem with doing it this way. And it may already be obvious to you is that if I'm not careful, I could stretch the artwork out and doing this by hand is going to be really, really tedious and not very efficient or easy to do. So what we need is a way of keeping the distance between these pins constant so that we don't accidentally stretch out our artwork.
For the full transcript visit: https://som.bz/2vZknr2
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