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sw edit for my favourite duo obiwan and anakin 🧚

I haven't used Ae in ages and damn it shows also this is reposted from my insta

#dailies #aescripts | ramificatas formata rati | WOW #stardustAE 1.4 ! Performance improvements check  I've tried to make a branching system before w multiple aux. lvls & it was chugging like crazy. Now it seems 2 process faster. 

Tutorial available on youtube

As part of the latest exercise of my Introduction to Creative Play class, We were given the task to rig and animate a 2d puppet character. We used the pre-made assets based on the character Finn from Adventure Time. Following along with a PDF tutorial.

First, we logged in to our computers, went to Blackboard, and downloaded the file named Adventure Time Assets.zip. We then found it in our downloads folder and extracted the files Fin Layers.psd, Jake Layers.psd, Adventure Time Background.psd, and Adventure Time Audio.mp3.

After this, we opened up Adobe After Effects and imported the previously mentioned files by going to "file", then "import" and then file. We then selected all four files and, on the dropdown, selected import AS and then selected composition. The teacher explained if we imported it as footage, they would all be flattened into a single layer.

Once all the files were imported, we then started writing the puppet. We started by creating a composition. We clicked the Finn Layers comp in our project bin, went to edit, and then duplicate. This made a copy. We hit enter and renamed the comp to Finn Puppet. Once we did this we then started to go through each layer containing the separate body parts and added the puppet pins on each joint. We also recentered the center point to one of the joints of the body parts.

After each part was pinned, we started on parenting the layers together; making one layer inherit the properties of another layer. With this layer, we parented all of the limbs to the torso. For this we had to use enter to select the layers with control v. I had trouble with this stage as I thought I was pressing control v but it did nothing. It wasn't until the teacher reminded me of which keys to use that I realised my mistake; I was pressing C and V rather than crtl and V.

Once the layers were parented, it was time to start animating. We did this by using a walk cycle chart image for reference. We duplicated Finn puppet and created a new composition called Finn walk cycle. Setting the frame rate to 25 frames per second and setting keyframes for each pose.

We ran out of time before we could create a full walk cycle, but I did manage to set a few key frame poses that created a good movement.