Author Archives: kristioosthuizen

I’ll likely go back to drawing references once I start animating him. where he’ll bury his nut

I’m starting to learn how to use pins in Ae for my character movements and walk cycle and this video really helped me: Advanced pin: allows rotation, more for knees/middle joints Position pin: keeps it in place Bend pin: Same as advanced without position keyframe, may be better for head movement etc depending on how …

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Here are some of the many assets I had to make I need to tweak a few things, but I can basically put everything in Ae now and only need to design my character now.

I’ve started to make trees for my squirrel animation, and I’m trying out different ones, The rejected ones might be used for my other animations…

CONCEPT 1 // SQUIRREL ANIMATION CONCEPT 2 // MOUNT FUJI LANDSCAPE CONCEPT 3 // SNOW STAR TRAIL LANDSCAPE ANIMATION

Notes from tutorials: For animating characters: fx puppet – add pins to object cel animation looks better for some assets -animdessin parallax effect: make layer 3d, f9 easy ease in shortcut toggles & switches: alpha inverted matte to cut out text or shape above Ai pine trees: triangle – distort&transform – roughen – change size …

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I’m quite excited about designing cute backgrounds in illustrator, and so far I’m leaning towards the idea of creating nature scenes. Most haikus seem to mention nature, peace and solitude, so trees swaying, flowers, stars, the moon and a smoking fire is what is popping in my head so far. I’ve also thought of each …

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Today we were briefed on our new haiku brief. We need to make 3 40 second animations of 3 different haikus, using cinema 4d, after effects and illustrator. *remember mt mograph motion plugin to download* I’m trying to find ways to animate text and other effects so I went and searched for animation tutorials I …

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Today we started working with cinema 4d and Werner took us through all the tools of the software. Notes: alt g group objects click and drag one layer to another, arrow down means parent, left arrows places it in between symmetry, dear shape in other shape gives mirror effect in timeline double click to create, …

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