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Subject: Re: [AE] Animating faces
From: patrick Siemer <siemer@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 17:57:39 -0700
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While there is not software yet that will draw for you, After Effects =
does have the amazing Puppet Tool to warp and bend existing art into new =
shapes and poses. There is a way to set up all your face poses in one =
comp and use time remapping to swap  the frames in another comp.  There =
is also the most excellent and expensive plug-in,  Re:Vision Flex.  =
Unlike puppet tool and its "pin" metaphor, it uses regular AE mask paths =
to do the warping.  simply create a (closed or open) path on your art, =
and when you move the path the art will follow, with boundaries and  =
different levels of flexibility available.  For a cel-animation look,  =
there's lots that can be accomplished with Shape layers, Fill, and =
Stroke.  It seems to me that you are looking for the 2d equivalent of =
"pose morphing " available in most 3d software packages, where you make =
a bunch of poses and the software will let you pick which one to display =
at a certain time, and automatically create the in between frames as =
needed.
You will most likely find what all animators eventually discover,  ALL =
animation is hard to do.  A great animator friend of mine told me that  =
when I was working on the Monsters inc. titles.    He also added =
"Nothing worth doing is easy, now work harder."
Every animation technique has its limitations, thankfully, or more of us =
would be unemployed.
I am sure you will find your solution but I guarantee it won't be easy.
good luck!

patrick siemer

On Jul 2, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Chris Zwar wrote:

> Hi,
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> I'm just running out the door so I don't have time to look into this =
myself, but in 2009 I saw an article about a feature film which was =
being animated entirely within After Effects.  It was called "Metropia" =
and had a very distinct, stylised look.  I'd love to hear from anyone =
who's seen in - I assume they've finished it by now!
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DvLPD_9uFmVI
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> If I recall, every shot was hand animated using the puppet tool.  =
Perhaps google around and see what you can find for Metropia and how it =
was made.
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> Cheers
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> -Chris
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> On 02/07/2013, at 10:48 PM, B=C5=82a=C5=BCej Pieczonka =
<blazej.pieczonka@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello
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>> I am wondering if you know any technique for animating mouth and the =
whole face using after effects. I mean creating some kind of face rig, =
using poses designed earlier. There is no problem in ordering faces one =
after another according to text speech, but what with morphing standard =
face into different poses? Anyone know?
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>> Blazej
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