Motion Graphics

I’ve never used done animation in After Effects before so it took me a while to get the hang of how it works. However, the exercises we did in class helped me a lot on getting started with it. Once I’d come up with an idea of what I wanted to do, I used Illustrator to create the parts of the character as separate layers so I could animate each part. I then imported it into After Effects and rigged it by parenting layers to the layers they would be attached to and began keyframing the different layers to create a run cycle. Looking back at it, I think I could have been a lot more creative with the story of the video, however I am happy for a first time animating in After Effects. I also think I should have spent some more time to give everything more detail.