Aesop's The Fox and the Crow

This was my final project for an introductory animation class. The goal was to use After Effects to animate pre-drawn assets. I ended up making everything in After Effects though.
This is actually my first animated short film so it ain't Disney or Miyazaki but oh well.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• aesop
• famous
• fables
• fox
• crow
• after effects
• animation
• 2d
• kids
• cartoon

[longlahable]

hai steve.... i want to ask u how to make this 2d animation with after effect.. thanks

[stevenMlee]

@longlahable I made the characters with layers of solids and used masks to create different body parts like heads, tails, etc. I used the brush stroke effect to give the shapes a dark line. In order to animate the character I took each body part that I made and parented them to each other in a way that would allow them to act like a body. So for example I parented the location of the fox's arm to the body so that when the body moves the arm would but I could still rotate the arm. Hope this helps

[longlahable]

@stevenMlee hai ...thanks for your help... ^ ^ btw u use flashnto do the 2d animation?

[stevenMlee]

@longlahable No problem. I don't know how to use flash so now I don't use it for animation.

[longlahable]

@stevenMlee so what program u are using to make above video? ah...after effect?

[stevenMlee]

@longlahable yes. Completely in after effects.

[UrbanMediaPros]

I think you did great! It looks good Keep up the good work!