Easy Explainer Video Character Animations in After Effects | Tutorial

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  • Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
  • One of the most marketable skills you can pick up as an After Effects user is being able to create Explainer videos with character animation. It may seem difficult to create these type of projects. Thankfully, it’s actually very easy. So in this After Effects tutorial, we’re going to breakdown the simple workflow for approaching this type of project. Learn how to easily gather vector character designs for your projects. How to organize and animate full characters extremely fast. After watching this After Effects and Illustrator tutorial, you’ll be able to create professional explainer video animations!
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    0:00 Intro - Smash The Like Button :)
    0:52 How To Design Characters & Scenes
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    1:47 Organize Your Characters & Scenes For Animation
    3:32 Import Your Characters Into After Effects
    3:47 Setup The Scene
    4:09 Scale & Position Your Character(s)
    4:45 Character Animation With The Puppet Tool
    7:36 Animate Facial Expressions
    7:44 Facial Expressions - Blinking Eyes
    8:40 Facial Expressions - Moving Mouth
    9:25 Outro - Please Subscribe :)
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  • @SonduckFilm
    @SonduckFilm  3 роки тому +12

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    • @khashalfang
      @khashalfang 2 роки тому

      These are great! I just bought the 4-pack bundle. Excited to use them in my work. 😃

    • @csi7864
      @csi7864 2 роки тому

      Hey, great video! Thanks for taking the time to explain this all in great detail. I happen to be running into a very annoying problem that is driving me bonkers and I was really hoping you could help.
      I follow all your steps, however everytime i go to use the puppet tool and click the image, the mouse turns into a square and does not draw the dots? . if you could help id really appreciate it. Cheers

  • @vttcunha
    @vttcunha 3 роки тому +8

    You're the best, dude. I'm completely new to this motion graphic stuff and I'm in love with your tutorials.

  • @naunofurbisness7376
    @naunofurbisness7376 2 роки тому +12

    Overall liked this tutorial. The face rig you made was smart and I'm definitely going to use that method. I think this is an excellent way of making a stock character for a client work when you have very little time. If you only have ten minutes for each character, this is what you should do.
    If you have more time, opt to fix any of the animation errors. Her leg squishes a little and this can be fixed by separating out the right arm from the body. It would then make it so you could still puppet pin the arm, but negate the warping a little.
    Some clients will honestly not care, as long as there is a character moving in their explainer video. Some clients will. It's all about figuring out what each person expects and needs.

  • @radioactivecat
    @radioactivecat 3 роки тому +17

    Literally when you posted this is when I was given multiple projects for explainer videos. I am pretty well adapt with after effects and I can draw characters, however, I’ve never animated them before. This gives me a great start. Thank you

  • @annnellbyne1672
    @annnellbyne1672 3 роки тому +2

    Your tutorials are by far my favorite for AE!

  • @celestialflick
    @celestialflick Рік тому +2

    Love the tutorial, you're very good at explaining things in an uncomplicated manner. Thank you

  • @YoungCitizensofPakistan
    @YoungCitizensofPakistan 3 роки тому +3

    Sounduck is doing a great job to guide those, who are new to AE. Thanks

  • @NilsLindstrom
    @NilsLindstrom 3 роки тому +4

    Very clever! Thanks for this. You've bumped my After Effects competence up to a new level.

  • @estherdavid9509
    @estherdavid9509 3 роки тому +4

    I have been running from character animation all these time. Thank you for making it easy for me to understand

  • @zakariaboutraba7751
    @zakariaboutraba7751 3 роки тому

    The Music in the backgound is so engaging and your videos are amazingly informative , Thank you !

  • @hwangeunbisssss
    @hwangeunbisssss 3 роки тому +1

    best channel for after effects tutorials!!! thank you so much!

  • @Fareeshaaa
    @Fareeshaaa 3 роки тому

    SO EASY!! CAN'T BELIEVE IT CAN BE THIS EASY! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

  • @karishmamohun2473
    @karishmamohun2473 3 роки тому

    This is so helpful. I learned a lot! Keep making these videos. Thank you awesome work!

  • @muhammadmachado
    @muhammadmachado Рік тому +1

    Clear and straight. Good job.

  • @PochoNieves
    @PochoNieves 2 роки тому

    AWESOME! Short and to the point!

  • @SandeepDasVlogs
    @SandeepDasVlogs 3 роки тому +1

    This man is a legend !! very cool tutorial.

  • @hessaalrabah4577
    @hessaalrabah4577 3 роки тому

    Thanks for the precise & easy tutorial!!! Perfect for a beginner like me 👌👌

  • @abhishekanand6640
    @abhishekanand6640 3 роки тому

    You just made it simpler.
    Thanks mate.

  • @giamar66
    @giamar66 3 роки тому +1

    This is so helpful. Thanks!

  • @serenatamilia
    @serenatamilia 3 роки тому +1

    thank you very much. I like this kind of tutorial!

  • @siththara-3024
    @siththara-3024 2 роки тому

    thanks bro very help full

  • @anonaa100
    @anonaa100 Рік тому

    Thank you so much .. very simple professional teaching way

  • @sonyiswatching
    @sonyiswatching 2 роки тому

    really really useful video, thank you so much!

  • @adryaalexandria1228
    @adryaalexandria1228 10 місяців тому

    It worked like a charm, thanks.

  • @keltalztv
    @keltalztv 3 роки тому +1

    Sonduck thank you for grooming me in animations and motion graphics. I usually look upto your channel when am out of idea. Now i have a channel just because of you. Thank you

    • @SonduckFilm
      @SonduckFilm  3 роки тому

      That's all you! Great job! Thanks for watching the videos.

  • @psychotel2251
    @psychotel2251 Рік тому

    thanks a lot!!! your explanation is so clear it helped as i'm bad with animating!!!

  • @gamershaven254
    @gamershaven254 3 роки тому +1

    Man you helped me out here was wondering about this for sometime thanks.😁

  • @spacexhub5951
    @spacexhub5951 3 роки тому +43

    I don't believe this. Can someone provide this type of tutorials for free. Thanks a lot I really learned a lot.

    • @SonduckFilm
      @SonduckFilm  3 роки тому +3

      You are most welcome! :)

    • @SophisticatedMedia
      @SophisticatedMedia 3 роки тому +4

      Maybe try using Adobe Character Animator 2020. There are some tutorials out there. Should be enough to figure it out. It's basicly a similar process, with creating a character puppet via Adobe Illustrator, then pin it in Character Animator and then use your webcam Automate your facial expressions and use shortkeys for animating other bodymovements. Kinda nice program for daily needs of Explainer Videos for example! ✌🏼😎

    • @minadief
      @minadief 3 роки тому +2

      @@SophisticatedMedia I'm coming from Adobe character animator , but I see more possibilities here, Character animator is fast, but not flexible as After Effects
      but yea for just explainer video , I will use Character Animator and I might green screen the character and use after effects to animate the background, and bring them all together using premiere pro

  • @ThouheethaA
    @ThouheethaA 3 роки тому

    Thanks for the amazing tutorial.. you are the best!!!

  • @flanker2565
    @flanker2565 2 роки тому

    Great thanks this video has just opened up a great opportunity for me. Many thanks

  • @mamoonbilal5983
    @mamoonbilal5983 3 роки тому

    Great and easy and to the point

  • @sheenachauhan3008
    @sheenachauhan3008 3 роки тому

    thank you for this amazing tutorial

  • @williamfrances
    @williamfrances 2 роки тому

    You're the man dude, straight to the point😃

  • @metome5109
    @metome5109 6 місяців тому

    thats amazing thank you so much!

  • @shakoorgilal4231
    @shakoorgilal4231 3 роки тому

    You are great man so helpful Everytime

  • @monkeydgoofy8074
    @monkeydgoofy8074 2 роки тому

    thanks for the tutorial it really helps!😻😻

  • @NomanJohan
    @NomanJohan 3 роки тому +6

    Earned a sub buddy, just starting out AE animations and you could be my go to guy.
    THANKS.

  • @ngocquynhnhuha6271
    @ngocquynhnhuha6271 3 роки тому +1

    Easy & effective, thanks a lot

  • @erfandf1227
    @erfandf1227 3 роки тому

    amazing tutorial. keep going

  • @motionislive5621
    @motionislive5621 3 роки тому +1

    Hey man , thank you so much . God bless you !

  • @nhutbui7019
    @nhutbui7019 10 місяців тому

    Very useful, thank you

  • @shubhamgangan3271
    @shubhamgangan3271 3 роки тому

    really nice videos ..learnt a lot from these

  • @shanuka_Hettiarachchi
    @shanuka_Hettiarachchi Рік тому

    its Awesome man. Thanks a lot

  • @Andrescg2016
    @Andrescg2016 3 роки тому

    Muchas gracias por compartirlo, saludos desde Colombia!

  • @dhairyakhare510
    @dhairyakhare510 3 роки тому +1

    It's very useful for me, thank to share with us 🙏🙏🙏

  • @suryac5
    @suryac5 3 роки тому

    Awesome video..... Thank you

  • @campiqmedia3479
    @campiqmedia3479 Рік тому

    Thank you so much

  • @EmmanuelThemba
    @EmmanuelThemba 3 роки тому

    I love it my guy... this is dope

  • @Rijckenberg
    @Rijckenberg 3 роки тому

    WAUW!!! Again great tutorial.

  • @denysparra1755
    @denysparra1755 3 роки тому

    Amazing... great tutorial

  • @Owais_kalyar
    @Owais_kalyar 3 роки тому

    Why I am so late in finding you.. Outstanding.. very easy to understand...Thank you

  • @TylersWellness
    @TylersWellness 3 роки тому

    Love your vids bro, subbed.

  • @ApieceOfwish
    @ApieceOfwish 4 місяці тому

    Thank you very much ☆

  • @janinekey
    @janinekey Рік тому

    Thank you so much for this tutorial! It helped me a lot!

    • @soufianeallali3040
      @soufianeallali3040 Рік тому

      please is it copyright to use this for your youtube videos?

  • @naturediscovery10
    @naturediscovery10 3 роки тому

    It was very helpfull thank you

  • @gauravbhatt9423
    @gauravbhatt9423 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for this tutorial!!

  • @zachfrancis3089
    @zachfrancis3089 Рік тому

    thank you so much , it worked

  • @rustledesign
    @rustledesign 2 роки тому

    Great vid very helpful

  • @ahmedshah4962
    @ahmedshah4962 3 роки тому

    Thank you so much sir 🙌

  • @thecreatorsjoy
    @thecreatorsjoy 5 місяців тому

    thanks alot, your teaching woke me from sleep, I will try to catch up by following your steps though I like to skip steps😅

  • @1anchit
    @1anchit 2 роки тому

    I believe I saw your first video when you had 1k subscribers or so. Look at you now! Congrats!

  • @32kouksamrach81
    @32kouksamrach81 3 роки тому

    Great explaining. Love this VDO 🇰🇭🇰🇭

  • @AbdulMajeed-ki5qm
    @AbdulMajeed-ki5qm 2 роки тому

    Many many many many thanks dude you are best

  • @keltalztv
    @keltalztv 3 роки тому

    You're worthy to be called a mentor!

  • @ledeol5605
    @ledeol5605 Рік тому

    I'll try that. Simply loved it! Very Smart! regards from Brazil🇧🇷

  • @bhaktidas4951
    @bhaktidas4951 2 роки тому

    Thank God u solve my problem with carctor animation thank for this tutorial I will try this tomorrow and give you feedback

  • @nayeemrifath848
    @nayeemrifath848 2 роки тому

    This was very helpful bro..

  • @maxthrone
    @maxthrone 3 роки тому

    Nicely explained.. Very helpful tips for beginners 👋👋👍😊 also it will enhance the explainer videos quality👍👍✌🏼

  • @emilynalexandrabolivarlimo794
    @emilynalexandrabolivarlimo794 2 роки тому

    awesome!

  • @rp_designs11
    @rp_designs11 3 роки тому

    Thanks so much

  • @RnldsWrap
    @RnldsWrap 3 роки тому +1

    OmG! Life changing!!

  • @LazyDesigner
    @LazyDesigner 2 роки тому

    no words guys, thanks a lot

  • @PythonCodeMan
    @PythonCodeMan 3 роки тому

    I smashed the "LIKE" button. I enjoyed the tutorial😋😋

  • @masoodahmed6579
    @masoodahmed6579 3 роки тому

    Thankyou so much

  • @chutihudelle184
    @chutihudelle184 3 роки тому

    This is really tricky . Quite interesting .

  • @daleb9591
    @daleb9591 3 роки тому

    this is awesome

  • @hosox5408
    @hosox5408 2 роки тому

    thanks you for everything

  • @RBicons
    @RBicons 2 роки тому

    it's very easy, thank you for your helpful video. =)

  • @LayanAdventures
    @LayanAdventures 3 роки тому

    amazing........ thank you!

  • @sherhortillosa5123
    @sherhortillosa5123 Рік тому

    tysm!

  • @muhammadwasifkhan6903
    @muhammadwasifkhan6903 3 роки тому

    sir i really like this animation tutorial

  • @meghamithila
    @meghamithila 2 роки тому

    Nice work

  • @roozbehpapi278
    @roozbehpapi278 3 роки тому

    Very, very excellent. Thank you very much.

  • @joshbro3729
    @joshbro3729 2 роки тому

    awesome brother i did this same vector in my way and is took long time but this look short and sweat you are genius.

  • @akesukejin6734
    @akesukejin6734 3 роки тому

    thank's for yours video

  • @isurumaxx9335
    @isurumaxx9335 2 роки тому

    Thanks bro ❤😋

  • @HistoryGate
    @HistoryGate 3 роки тому

    That is excellent 😍

  • @pasteupwithmaakey8114
    @pasteupwithmaakey8114 3 роки тому

    Wow thats cool

  •  3 роки тому

    Thank you so much for this tutorial. I would also love a tutorial on how to rig a puppet from freepik to work in Adobe Character animator.

  • @albinaghimire4921
    @albinaghimire4921 3 роки тому

    This is the best character animation tutorial! Thank you so much. ❤

  • @gulsumgunesen8919
    @gulsumgunesen8919 3 роки тому

    Thank you.

  • @muhammadhaseeb1604
    @muhammadhaseeb1604 2 роки тому

    Man you are amazing

  • @baanamalumbe4542
    @baanamalumbe4542 3 роки тому

    Thanks!

  • @holmeshome1118
    @holmeshome1118 3 роки тому

    Thanks a lot boss

  • @samarahewanandasiri9642
    @samarahewanandasiri9642 3 роки тому

    Highly recomended for beginners

  • @kelthekonqrr
    @kelthekonqrr 3 роки тому

    I love this channel

  • @tharunsmith
    @tharunsmith 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks for sharing your key tricks. May I know, which system are you using for to run these Adobe software. Can you please share the the configuration of your system

  • @christianmefeuya5094
    @christianmefeuya5094 3 роки тому

    thank's so much

  • @ProEpicGuya76c007
    @ProEpicGuya76c007 3 роки тому +1

    AMAZING

  • @yanraychuk
    @yanraychuk Рік тому +1

    Thank you very much! I think I've been using this tutorial about 10 times now :)
    By the way, your end screen elements are coming up above your face at the end of the video, possibly you'd want to make them appear later :)