As a programmer who does art and animation as a hobby, this tutorial made me so happy. Combining my work and my hobby together is awesome! Makes me want to see what else I can tweak with scripts :D
rive and AE have distinct and specific use cases. rive is for light-weight motion graphics for websites and apps. after effects is heavier and more for video creation than light-weight stuff. at the moment i have no knowledge of adjustment layers being implemented in the near future.
Oh that's awesome! How's the learning curve for non-coders? Been trying to find a light engine to make a very casual exploration game akin to old school point-n-click adventures, maybe this could be it?
dude....if u have all phases as paths....just please...why u just dont use keyframes on paths on the ONE shape layer....geeez.....no scripts, no problems...
Nice one 🤙now just pick_whip the slider value to a rotation value of the same or different null and use the rotation value to input your lip keyframes (also make them hold keyframes). This way you can keyframe like the wind using + and - hotkeys for rotation value (which now controls lips) and pg. up / pg. down keys to advance frames and "0" hotkey to ram render preview your work area as you go.
When I tried this the mouth kept disappearing because if the keyframes aren't right next to each other the slider value becomes a decimal and all mouths have 0% opacity. How do I stop the slider from using decimals between keyframes? As a hotfix I'm using Math.floor() but that feels a little bit jank and I'd love to know what I'm missing here.
Hiya Ross. Do you have any tips on how to create the layers that drop down like in this video? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FrnNG7FIe_A.htmlsi=3TQIDQ3Ink18Ii8s&t=11 I can create the layer, fade it in and out, create an animated outline, but I cannot figure out how to make these layers drop down. Cheers, Frank
this is the way for single still image I guess. can't imagine adding 10+ extra shading layer that don't stick to original layer, and animating the base layer would make all the rest invalid...
Ross, hi, thank you very much for the lesson, please tell me, and if I make two characters and, for example, make them walk cycles, will I then be able to throw them two into one scene with the background? Or let's say I have a character who is walking, and then, for example, he sat down or stood up, how do I do this?
help : when I move the head with puppet tools, than the mouth characters don't follow the head movements. (Mouth is parenting with the Head). How to solve that?
I work as a Rigger in kids TV. In AE shows, we tend to use a mixture of parenting x/y values of a selector to a time remap using DUIK, or by using a shape selection plug-in such as SF-Caddy (that uses time remap as well). I've personally never experienced a glitch with time remap either as long as my slider is rounded to the nearest integer. The advantages of this workflow is that we can take that pre-comp and apply it to other characters/costumes that uses the same mouth shapes, and plug-ins such as SF-Caddy are more of a familiar process/workflow to Adobe Animate's "Frame Picker" (or KeyFrameCaddy for us oldies), and ToonBoom's drawing replacement selection. Path-driven mouths can be animated using custom scripts and nulls, or using something like "Joysticks and Sliders". It's very common for us to adopt one or several plug-ins as a "standard" for a show so that both animation and rigging departments have access to the same tools. Stock AE just isn't flexible enough for multi-character studio environment. The process you've shown is nice and clean though. I can see it being useful on a mograph project where assets are built a bit more ad-hoc and you need to get animating quickly
I feel like I've said this a million times, but I still come back to this video when I wanna bust out a lil walk cycle, just the slightly frantic energy gives me that boost and the directions send out a solid WC every time. Cheers, hope you're well!
I come back every year (actually more than that hehe) to see if there are new episodes 🥲 It's so funny and random, I LOVE IT ! It would replace Paradis PD in my heart !🥰
