Animating a simple Character Head Rotation

This is a really quick overview of one method to approach head rotations and Blink animations. It is not a definitive method, but if your character design suites the process it can be quite effective.

I just skim over the expressions and property linking so if you need a more detailed overview of linking sliders to layer attributes check out my earlier tutorial on Using Sliders.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Facial Animation
• Head
• Turns
• Clinks
• Eyes
• After Effects
• Animation
• 2D Animation
• Rigging
• cloth
• clothing
• Daniel Gies
• Character
• Null Objects
• Expressions
• CS5
• Adobe

[grugrucarmim]

Heeey! How's it going?! So, i'm a great fan of yours and i really appreciate your animations! I just wanna know if could you make a tutorial of an animation from the beginning, step by step? If you don't, i will understand! Thank you so much for share your ideas with the world! :D

[everyonediesfilms]

@grugrucarmim I am definitely working on a step by step right now. In fact I have a very detailed set of tutorials coming out at AETuts+ I iwll try to get it on you tube as well. It is pretty advanced but is certainly more detailed. They will be coming out all month. Thank you so much for the compliments, it is very encouraging. Definitely makes it worth all the effort.

[frddaarchitect]

Very nice tutorial bruv love it and its very helpful @Darealfrd on twitter

[handsomeape]

excellent tutorial thank you very much for sharing!

[longwing2011]

wow, i thought this was 3D at first... well done mate!!

[imselende]

Hi, can't tell you how much your tutorial's are appreciated. Thanks. Would you like to post which expressions you used for each layer (especially the head layer)?

[AnimatedTdot]

nice technique

[scanvas]

Thank you for sharing ... Subscribed!

[BenjiDJMix]

Incredible!

[gogreenrobot]

Awesome tutorial. Thanks very much for sharing!!!

[boogieFiggins]

Amazing!