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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, > > 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! > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLPD_9uFmVI > > 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. > > Cheers > > > -Chris > > > > On 02/07/2013, at 10:48 PM, Błażej Pieczonka <blazej.pieczonka@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello >> >> 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? >> >> Blazej > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
