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1. Introduction: Hello. They want to get right to your cute supercar address like you learn to draw illustrator or ahead like Lis Arlys. If you are very beginner off illustrator and after facts knowing only best six off the interface of both can the victories or shapes to the single characters going to Pile I and Key Friends and the Transformation A Aftereffects Let us enough to stop from here. Hamburger from Big Burger Studio. I work now in Germany as a graphic and motion designer. I pray some visual Nisman's to get new attention for products and to engage the customers. And I'm also very passionate about Splenda animations. Elite Lesson. You will let how to prepare your Adobe Illustrator file for admission. How to do basic movements and transformations with Carter's After facts. How to use public tour to rig characters in basic back organic way to get used to after facts and speak up your process. So let's practice by endless class. You will be able to very lovely and far animated characters with spastic movements, gills and public tool. You can share a on different platforms like Facebook, a side room to amaze your friends or audience You can also use this animation to promote your own graphic words or your products. And I'm very excited to see what you will do using this tool. So please share your works here, then let's get started.
2. Prepare files in Illustrator : in this lesson, I will show you the workflow off illustrator like you can prepare footage is to be used in after facts. It's not a step breast of editorial off how to draw characters in illustrate her. But as long as you know how to do basic shapes using pent war to create characters, then it's OK to go. So let's end and posting it on Instagram or Facebook, which can be a square off 12 80 bite off. 80. Who we draw a character like Lee's birth. All these activists, you can use my or grade your own characters. As you wish. Be sure to have just one outboard for wild file and most importantly, to put every single element that you want toe admit in different layers and then limb properly. Likely spurt. Yes, the head, The wing I left and right legs in different laters. I'm going to show you how So now everything is in the center layer. When I drew it. Now select the head and cut it. Click new layer DoubleClick, the layer to Rin end head and instead, off price control V two past it backless. You can prise control F to pass the head to the new layer, but at the same position to this end, to the other layers like least weaned this I left leg left food just like least Final one And the womb only need a layer here also do the same Felice activists, and sometimes we really have a lot off layer to build. Then you can use less your cut for mcis option Commander l for window is out control And now so the window shows up. Then you can run end layer directly here so you don't need to click a new layer and double click layer every time to really end it. So the sense separate the leg, head and the most eyes a little ribbon here, two different layers and now you're ready to go to after effects.
3. Basics of character movements: for beginners off after facts. The most important to things like you should do before moving any objects or layers are just at the right angle point and two parents object to write layer. I'm going to show you how so you will know why not important. So let's get started was after fact first opened after fact you import files, front attachment and the file the bird in the file and import s that footage but conversation because if you choose footage, every single layer will become bite into one picture. But if you choose composition, every layer will be returned as what we set in Illustrator. So if you double Creek Liz Composition, you will see all the layers separated here and the weekend also see if you click here, he will only see the body for the head. So you know which one is which one. So the first important thing is you need to set the right ankle polling for every layer and the parents you need two parent everything To the right layer at least, is the body. You see every anchor point with this angle born. It is a center off the conversation, so if we want Teoh, rotate the body. That said the right anchor point for the body. This prize. Why? And you will see least pretend so I can show up. Keep pricing why, and click and drag to the right. Polling. Hey, this here and again, Why click and drag if you click Show card are rotation rotation? Was your hair you try yet? It's a right point to rotate and the wings why and quick on drag and the lake said right leg here. Why driven, click and drag here. So if you want to zone in to see a picker, you can price the shocker off madly for, and you can price out in this mode and click it to a smaller zoom out and the food. The right foot's here after its poll. So again, why click and drag and the left food is laced? One. If you want to go back to selection tool, you can just price V. You should just your card, and now we also move. Please think a point off the left leg. Press one drug to the right point. Also, the food or the pull hair left full left food now You might also want to move the biggest will almost pota and here. And I if you want to make it blink or re gate and least ladies eyebrow. Actually, you can just Celek it and press enter where you can change the nan. Yeah, so the ive bold and bullshit here. So if you want to do had moved months like lease, you found the big the eye, the eye bro are not going with the head. So with what we need to parent land the right layer. So let's select eyes big and I, bro, so and quickly spiral I can and drag it to the head. So now if you rotate head, they are going with the head. So the sent here. You want to, um, for the wing and the legs? Two legs and wing too, buddy. So, drag sparrow I can and track to the body. You can also select wrong here. They struck down Manu. So we moved the body rotated by, please. So little be together. But, um uh, food off lease. Bert the pole off expert. They should Parren the left hood should pair in left leg and the right foot Japan right lake. If you want to show the position and rotation s anti, you can pride shift p so you can get a position feature here The same tie. You can keep the rotation, so let's see if you want to move the position. Eso we haven't parent heads to the body this parented. So now when the body moving Paris is moving and when it rotates every seeing rotate with it . So now we can start to Rick it with the right city. Now we'll continue with the activist with proper tool and then the monkey. Now we will come back to this video to do the movement for the bird and the womb using both people too and plastic transformation move after fax.
4. Learn puppet tool with the octopus : public do is a powerful and organic tool to doing movements, especially for characters. It's flexible and extinct. It like Lis activists. We are going to make or likely cycling, Mermaid and these boxing gold. So let's opened at the fax again. Import file. Choose activists. His composition and double click is composition. Bloods create a solid first. So late news bullet here so you can see the act was more clearly so You can see the layers hair, the O s mouse. And this is the ribbon on head and legs. Leg 123 or tentacle 123 in different layers and, uh, left lakes left layer and the left legs. I pull it in the sand there because it's just a place holder, because the movement off act was a symmetrical. So actually we can just admit this part. And then we mirrored later. So and in lace video, I won't use the Tako Yaki because I found this a little bit complicated to the beginners. So let me lead a first, but you can try anything you want. So before we enemy, any day is the 1st 2 important things are set. The right anchor point and two parent objects to the right players. So for the head first and points here and say It's fine and the mouse we show put in going here. So let's click why? And click and drag to drop point. And if you want to make the eyes blink, we also need to put the anchor points in the middle and with the lakes. These sister first, like sold ANC appalling should be here. So now wisher parent any sayings to the head. So let's select and click list Vairo. I come drag to the head, so if you check rotation, they're moving together. That's so we're going to introduce our pepper pain tour, So if you choose the like one, he's one you click kit. You will have the first pain just yellow and the second, a certain one. You can move legs like please. So, as you can see, it's kind of from and nature. But for the activist, we need four pings for each tentacle. So and that's make four pains for less tentacle. So as you can see, as long as I have pain towards here, you will show up. Effect purple on mesh one different click here and you see the four public things opened it and is the key friend off less public paying so later we are going to and needless difference off proper pings. So now you can just press you so you won't see so unnecessary layers. So let's do the second lake now. First thing, Okay, Thank you. And it's also show off the minutes here de from public pings So key for here and for us you prepared to mark time mark here on last, Did it start like so just price you and you will see the difference. So the key friends are all set and we're going to make animation for these activists like Lis. So let's move the key friends off its proper pings. That said, um, about 1/2 2nd at this time the first lake, you can choose you The first tape and show up should be like here and the 2nd 1 cent time. Just pop a pain about you and so and the third so looks OK, so we have two key friends move like please, he said the sick, um, a little bit. Hi. So let's set the third key friends, so basically it will come back to the original place. So we just need to copy and tests the key friend who select Kobe controversy and pest to this timeline. Opie and Pest here So we'll see. It's here to descend to the ago in this time. No. So now. But I think when the tentacles going back to the original point, it should be a little bit more close to the center. So let's try to adjust it. So from the 31st no second talk on the flip among, um, ground just home and the second movement off swimming is this point. So we can also just copy Lyski friend. So let's say the next key friend. It's about four and have second kid and best Coley. The move from here is the sun as here. So we just Kobe and passed this kid friend it to any to everyone from the in to their. So we have the next one. No, well, it's move like these and to make a most moose and organic, we use your egg easy east to then so lets the leg all the difference and wreck leak key for a system easy is so it changed. Too easy is so now it's tactless. It's moving Moussa, and the last key friend is here. We copy this one. The send could be passed, so we almost finished this movement. But we need to just a little bit the value and the speed. So the activists, whilst we warm naturally So in order to adjust this, keep friends, we need the graph e editor. So let's Solana's key friends select Oh, the difference and click graphic editor. We will see the speed off the key friends, and I already thumb a proper graft like list. So let's try to do like, lease. And how do we a justice way selective? We still like the key friends, like lease. So Oh, the key friends on this timeline was selected. And just these with clicking and drag this well here and this swell. We'll click here and drag at least, and you can make it longer, like from here, thank you. And this part as ah when activists doing the muscle movement of food or water down so suddenly is very, very a lot of strength, and it's very fast. So let's make it's very high. So you're selling this one and also this one that will make a very high and fast like this . And here s well, least one on this different is the scent as this one for this Select this on this night, percent as the previous one. So let's see how he walks how as rather fast Don't fast Michelle still let that least it's a bit better now. So we finished the movement off the half apostle Flay because last on time leg between all the 10 Ticos. So we can slightly at just a little bit. Because the first technical move first a second move late a little bit later. So let's try just a little tiny bit like one friend to make the It's the second tentacle like here one friend later, and, uh, last one. Yes, it can lay this sort like like maybe for three friends even try over indicted trip to this place that c Let's get maybe just to for so the finished movement off the 10 tacos, and now we need to miro it to another side. So the way off doing it is let's select mystery 10 Ticos plus you because we don't need to see the difference anymore. We already finished editing and now we can create a new no object. No object is a very powerful tour that you can do a lot of movement. That's unless you parent other layers to this. No object. So we need honest relates so less duplicate. Then you price control de so late for 5/6 here and drag Yeah, to here, toe small, easy to see. Then you parent, then to no object, no objects here. In order to mirror that, you need to skillet. So you price s skills here and our link the proportion and to mirror it horizontally, you put a minus while hunger here then knows here and see yet lead in together two sides like Miro. Now you can just the late object. So that's the movement. And you may also want to do some fresh expression for this octopus. So he will look s'more organic. So let's re good eyes and mouse And this tiny ribbon So the mouse we can do, we can skillet. So in order to see the right K friend off this movement, we show the 1st 10 tacos depress you So you know the right moment when, uh, activists move differently. So it's a good reference point for the facial expression. So for the mouse, at this point, it's like this October's expressing a lot. So let's scale up the mouse. Your price. It's girl and you are link lis control, making a place big exaggerate and said the key friend here, the original one, You can just get 100 person, but we can do more. Exaggerate so skilled a dunk and and also used for insistent. Too easy is this so this. And we just need to copy this two D friends, according to the key friends on the tentacle. So let's copy this one. This one here and this one, The last friend last one that's also Wrigley's tannery Able And I felt like we haven't said Anchor Point to the right place should be here. So let's sit now cross. Why drag to the right? Horned and price are so the second key friends here. And to keep her here, it's up. Wish the body lists on the next. When it pulled down, so little should be no waste body and the sin we just need to Kobe. Key friends, right? And that same point, and easy is. So now it's that please, but because off the physics off water and it's very tiny and very light sing so it should be slower. Len. The movement off 10 tako So let's sit this conference a little bit later. This try to look small mid to late. No, it looks better. And then let's read eyes make a blink. It's also very easy. You set skill for it. Skill. 100% said the key friend. 100% and you re link it and said the next you friend 0.3% and then it open again, the eyes reckless and again easy. Is it this brother slow? So let's set it quicker. It's a lot. Press out and drink and drug less for me quickly, Let's see. So that's sit. Um, let's do according to these key friends, copy past name one point later. So iss the movement off lays activists. I hope youll enjoy list public toward Listen
5. Puppet tool and basic walking cycle with the bird & worm (1): So after practicing Papa tour with activists, and it's the time to re open the birth file to come by the burn and womb together to make a funny character animation. So let's make a walking bird and a crawling warm made here like Liz. But what's the best timing for the body? Legs, head and hands? Hopi friends off the working character. I legless cheat sheet for you here, including steak off the difference off the head, body and the legs you can check and save after you learned this lesson, and I also attach it in the project and resource page so you can download a it. So let's open the file with down in the lessons. Three for the bird. So let's get fit the screen reckless on, and first we create a new soul it but back room, and you can choose whatever color you like. A sip background. I will choose a bring one that this okay and drug it to the bottom and create another one. And this time we choose ah, color for the hours. So may be so. It will be talk wrong and let's adjust it. And let's put this warm a little bit, so let's animates the bird. Let's check our chicken shit for the walking cycle. So left five friends and step once for the five key from for the body. But is here is up and down, up, down, up for key friends. So let's set the different for the body that hit pay for position and set the first position. And the 2nd 1 the second key friend ISS Thumb So lasted about 10 friends here Next, uh, down arrow like, um three or four heist And the third different at about 20 friends here. And actually the start different is up. This a sent as 1st 1 and the force different is the son s the 2nd 1 So actually we just need to a copy and pass them. And the less que friend the fifth key friend is the same as the 1st 1 So that's copy and past the 1st 1 for the last one and less the like Len and easiest. Then land the step to for the head head is here the head Let's sit the rotation it are for for ski friends here and second key friend here. If you want to use your car to go to the Ah second key friend shows only screen. Let you can Christ come, you can process K and you will come to the next one and again K the next one. Kate. Next one. And if you hit J, he will come back to the previous one j so that take a J J J legless. It's very easy and youthful, so less press K. The second difference for the head I want you rotated a little bit are like Let legless may be tough on and the first gay friend a little Be little, little bit don't and the same the third and the fourth different is the Sun, August 2nd and first key friend. So copy and pest. And for the last month, it's also the census for us one. So could be passed and on. Did you and other shocker for Eazy E's for if you price F nine on window or if you use Mac , you price F M. And nine to go, though you will have a stroke are to easiest. Then instead Off Creek and choose Easy's. So it's also very useful. Amber Quick. Some nights like this and Blatt's said the key friends for the legs. Important legs. So let's check our cheat sheet again. The steps. Three for the lakes, so left five Different. But let's first see just freaky friends. The 1st 1 the 2nd 1 and less one. So the first leg will be front at first key friend and go back to the third different and comes back to the front last K from So is the same as the first different and another leg s an upside. You see the great que friend in between, key friend at the second and the force key friends. It's up. Difference is like when the knees go up like you can see the books at the left button corner here like this up and Leesburg had no knees, but we were adjusted later. So let's do the first set and last K from first for the lakes. So let's fund lakes, the right lakes and the left leg. And let's change the car level for land, so it's easy to be recognized. Let's change to Carla, maybe Brown here, so the color off label changed. So let's set the first key from for the right? Like so. Let's hate are first Keith friend Andi. I want to rotate it. It's at the back. So rotated here. And because, um, this point off lease two legs when they come back to buddy, let different positions, so we also need to adjust the position. So let's hit, shift and pay at the position and the 1st 1 and 2nd 1 We don't need to worry about it now. And the certain ones that key friend here, these lake will go to the front to the front direction. So let's rotate it front end and the position we need to adjust the position. Also to the front, it will be up and the last key friend. It's the send as the 2nd 1 So just copy and past and less easy is with If nine left Lake, let's hit our and also shift P for position. So the first key friend rotation and position it's here. So it's at the front Solis with it, that front like lists. So it's the right position on red rotation and price cake to the CERT key friend. It will be at the back, so let's rotated back. But please and changed position. Also to the back, maybe a little bit up and the less key friend cake and K on And let's keep friend. You just need to copy and best and said Easy, easier. So let's set now as that in between the up, the great key friends on our church. It So for Lease Lake for lease right leg. Let's set the second position a little bit up. If it's for humor character, you will need to set the knee off the lakes up, but because this there had no names, so let's just put the whole position up. So let's much the up. Every like four ties off three times. Try fourth, highest first and as well as another lake here looked like at the four ski friends that's for escape. The position. Also nudge up like four ties. Let's see. Looks now. Yes, so it's a circle. It's a working sick, awfully. Spar it off. Lake and I didn't put the arms or the wings in list working cycle shit because it's very easy. You just need to put the right arm and ups aside off the right leg and let, um, ups aside off the left leg. But for this part because A it's willing it's not, um so we is here and if we try to rotate it, it doesn't really make sense to rotate it like that up. Decide off the legs. Instead, they that wings shake with the body. So let's just just it with the body. When the body goes down, the wing go sound. But the wing is very light, so it will not really understand timing with the body. It will be a little bit later than the body, but we will adjust this time, like with the wind as well as the head later when we finish the cycle. So let's set the wing. We have we will have another wing. But now we can just do one wing and duplicated later so the wing will check ways the body, the bodies here, the ways here. So let's set the first K from for the wing rotation hit on this key front. The body is up, so I will want to a shake like this so up like hip and the second key friend Go waste the body yet so a little bit dumb up dumb and the sun like body Kobe, the first and second key friends and passed on the start and forced key friend and first gay friend Kobe for the less gay friend. And Easy is then and then we know check if it's OK and then we quit. Eight. We definitely Kate contro d the wind another wing, and we adjust the scale a little bit down because it's behind Onda position a little bit, but just a little bit on drunk it we'll be hide a head and body. So que friend is to send that they have to send to a friend for his two ways, at least the first working psycho is Tom and because we want this part to its fifth screen to go from here to the center so it will walk. Maybe we're more sickle, and I actually feel it's a little bit too fast. So let's select Oh, the key friends he it and plus out and click the less key friend. You can stretch it to make a longer or shorter, like maybe waas that here on maybe a little bit Stoller. So you check now I think it's better, and now they're still not very nature because we haven't said the time like between the lighter waned and the head because Les rotate together we saw any delay. But in the real world they are not working together in the same key friends. But we will at just this time, like later after this walking cycle, so it will work from aside friend to the inside friends. Eso less just need to copy the friends to call br the psycho to the second wrong. So let's co p o the friends here as from the body, we just need to cope e the second insert force and fifth because, uh, those 1st 1 and less one is the center. So that's Kobe it and pass it here. And also for the hit for the wings are the wing and for the lake and for another leg. And please be careful because the second friend off them lake left leg, it's empty. So you actually need to price the certain friend the position here, So this could be a past it. So that's will be the right friends. So now it's like lease. So now we're going to set the time, like for different parts off the body because allowed the head and the wings bouncing with the body. But they have different weights, so they will like the wing. She'll react more slower than the body and had a so so a little bit slower. So let's see the brothers here and the head is here. So let's reset. The less said the difference off the head of the later I will be here and as well as the wing when one in winter, the wind one. And we said the key friends on land and little B so low and the wing to s well, a little bit more slower learned the wing one. So in the make them look more organic. Try. So I think the head is a little bit Children quick. So let's it will be slower not going. The six friends I think it looks better, more bouncing, interesting. And so the bird went at about the 2nd 2nd who will come back to the center so it will rest and stop here. So let's sit a stock position for expert. So the birds, when he come back here, he will look down to this warm. But before that the head here will be a little bit the Seine in the same position. So let's copy it on a prize. But here and then maybe around here, rotated potato head a little bit down, see the warm. And when this bird, the less different off the buddy. Yet it's up, so it's going down. Likeness. So let's could be differ. The previous friend here, it's up and the system so it will rest and put the body down here at lease. The legs will be a little bit to the center together, so let's rotate right leg, little bit to the center. Andi the left light And so a little bit to the center. It's and the wing us well, the wing go down. Where's the body? But a little bit late. So this is the wing, The first wing it's up on. This is reveres. Keep religious stance. So we just into copy and past here and for another wing here as the sun Kobe lace previous de friend and passed here Andi also a little bit late, so let's see if he looks OK. Is that you know, quite ok, but extra we can can set the less gay friend off wing. Will it be more slower? So it will be a little bit more elegant, in my opinion, that may be the wings can be a little bit lower land. The previous be friends, like for this one. Did you don't all this wing and a little bit later? That's right. It looks better. So we finished working bird, and we're going to move it from outside friend to the center. So now we're going to compose it composed to birth. So So that Oh, the layers off this bird so basically was are long and background, no birds. And that's pride shift. Come in and see. And this window, pre composed will show up and last man it bird. Okay, so it can't composition. And now we just need to move this composition from outside friend to center. So let's hit the position. So the less position is here, I think maybe a little bit to center. Thank you. And is the less position so less moves to when they spur this going to the resting position ? Like here. Stop roaming. So here on first position, trap out here to a little bit small, big here, Ellen. Easy. Illicit. So now it looked like this. And the second part, we're going to use public to again to rig this warm.
6. Puppet tool and basic walking cycle with the bird & worm (2): So let's look pain. The woman and I said just that we use great. It's here. View Shokri so you can see how much lace wall moves and we want to be fit again. So we want the sport come from age to the center to meet a birth. So let's reset. Stop point off the warm. So let's get position on. Move it. Well, you with age. And now that soon again. And let's set pumping four lace warm. So I said seven offline evenly here. So the send this price you to see. Oh, the difference here Select long and press F nine e t. A stand. And for the second movement, that's it. Um, once they come first has make it the tail off the warm push toward the center and make to send a par like a bridge. So let's leg days Kyle past towards send her and a sister CenterPoint, and that's trick it off and adjust them. Make a smooth like list. Let's see how you won't know and start different is well will return to straight again. So actually we can just copy the first key friend and has he here that we need to move it for war to the center. So a select off the key friends here off the main doors on and Wolf land together like four greats here. So now is that he's so it looks nice. So it's a circle off how Leesburg Hollis won't move, and we need to make more rungs to make this wound toe with center here to make a bird. So let's doing again and make Mother key friends. So at the four Ski Friends, you just need to copy the previous one. When the womb hunching, it's back. So cobian pest and we need to. Also, we need to make a forward like four greets. So let's select land and track a golf forwards and the next one of the San Cobian past and drag to war for Greeks. See all you looks now the see how far it's going. So it's a here, so we still need one or two runs sold older son copy and past the previous one. So Happy days, one past okay and offline and drag. And for the next one co P and passed and select go off pains and drags four greats and let's see how go now back His point has make one room, so it will be more close to center. So let's copy and passed left off them. Andi, the next one will be in the past trek over this. Well, I see. See how it works out. It's almost the right point. So now we can close the greed by unticketed it here. But the timing when the birth come to the center, it's about here is the stuff point stop Point off the birds but the wrong books to slow right here. So, you know, we need to make this room walk a bit faster. We also need to make the bird to wait a little bit longer. Like two seconds more. We can make this one grow faster a little bit faster, but not too fast. So that select oh, off the different off the womb. Andi, click out on drag the less keep running. So let's track about, um, here, like five on half seconds so you will look a bit faster now and at the weapon have second. It will be stopped point with center, and we also need to make the spurt Wait a little bit longer in the center. So here is where it's where the blood stop and stop here. Fully spirit. Now we want the spurt when it looks down at the womb after when the wall arrived. So it's 5.5 seconds. So let's select lists two different on and wrap it trek, then active. Five. Have second. Okay, lets go back to the bird conversation and see how it works. Now it looks OK. And then right after the bird looks down at the wall, it won't vomit and erotica his head toward a bird. So after this point, So let's select the pain. Yes, this one is on the head on leads loon again. So now this pain. We rose this thing up just a little bit. Maybe the but think a bit, man. Let's see how it works Now that's a big screen. Andi also left this So we completed this animation on Let's export it to share a bell video . So it's on file export. Select the 2nd 1 and click lossless here. You can just sound sittings like recites it, I said, just you choose different format here, not a nation but H 264 It works best on social media. You can also choose outer sitting, but we haven't have any music or sound, so if you have it is a just to use for the 4.100 K H D. You can also select a folder to save it here and click render. Let you will get a A movie for Mitt if uploaded on YouTube. If you want to cover two and before or different format, you can use Adobe Media Encoder or you don't have. You just need to Google some words like on live via convert or on video format convert or like a Novi, too. And before so he was like that and you will find some onlys solutions. It's quickest and easiest way to convert to different format.
7. Conclusion: I hope you enjoy this lesson and learn sounds interesting for your characters. So far, you've learned how to admit a character with transformations after facts and to make basic working psycho and how to use the puppet tour. And don't forget to say and download a tissue for walking cycle in the project and resource page. And I'm also looking forward to see your creative this here. So please shut your works here. And if you have any question, feel free to ask me. You can also check my website for some inspiration on emissions. It's also in the project and resource page, so maybe see you next high.
Burger Big, Motion/Graphic designer
