Easy Explainer Video Character Animations in After Effects | Tutorial

One of the most marketable skills you can pick up as an After Effects user is being able to create Explainer videos with character animation. It may seem difficult to create these type of projects. Thankfully, it’s actually very easy. So in this After Effects tutorial, we’re going to breakdown the simple workflow for approaching this type of project. Learn how to easily gather vector character designs for your projects. How to organize and animate full characters extremely fast. After watching this After Effects and Illustrator tutorial, you’ll be able to create professional explainer video animations!

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Timecode:
0:00 Intro – Smash The Like Button :)
0:52 How To Design Characters & Scenes
1:23 Our After Effects Animation Templates – Save Hundreds of Hours
1:47 Organize Your Characters & Scenes For Animation
3:32 Import Your Characters Into After Effects
3:47 Setup The Scene
4:09 Scale & Position Your Character(s)
4:45 Character Animation With The Puppet Tool
7:36 Animate Facial Expressions
7:44 Facial Expressions – Blinking Eyes
8:40 Facial Expressions – Moving Mouth
9:25 Outro – Please Subscribe :)

[SonduckFilm]

Over 500+ elements ranging from accent motion graphics, titles, and backgrounds!

[radioactivecat]

Literally when you posted this is when I was given multiple projects for explainer videos. I am pretty well adapt with after effects and I can draw characters, however, I’ve never animated them before. This gives me a great start. Thank you

[naunofurbisness]

Overall liked this tutorial. The face rig you made was smart and I'm definitely going to use that method. I think this is an excellent way of making a stock character for a client work when you have very little time. If you only have ten minutes for each character, this is what you should do.

If you have more time, opt to fix any of the animation errors. Her leg squishes a little and this can be fixed by separating out the right arm from the body. It would then make it so you could still puppet pin the arm, but negate the warping a little.

Some clients will honestly not care, as long as there is a character moving in their explainer video. Some clients will. It's all about figuring out what each person expects and needs.

[vttcunha]

You're the best, dude. I'm completely new to this motion graphic stuff and I'm in love with your tutorials.

[celestialflick]

Love the tutorial, you're very good at explaining things in an uncomplicated manner. Thank you

[YoungCitizensofPakistan]

Sounduck is doing a great job to guide those, who are new to AE. Thanks

[spacexhub]

I don't believe this. Can someone provide this type of tutorials for free. Thanks a lot I really learned a lot.

[annnellbyne]

Your tutorials are by far my favorite for AE!

[thecreatorsjoy]

thanks alot, your teaching woke me from sleep, I will try to catch up by following your steps though I like to skip steps😅

[hwangeunbisssss]

best channel for after effects tutorials!!! thank you so much!

[estherdavid]

I have been running from character animation all these time. Thank you for making it easy for me to understand

[bhaktidas]

Thank God u solve my problem with carctor animation thank for this tutorial I will try this tomorrow and give you feedback

[NilsLindstrom]

Very clever! Thanks for this. You've bumped my After Effects competence up to a new level.

[SandeepDasVlogs]

This man is a legend !! very cool tutorial.

[TheNashvilleJason]

Yeah I've never used the pin tool to animate before. Thanks for the tip!

[viswanathanshanmugam]

actually your teaching is very fast paced, I request, could you please make the tutorial with medium paced
one more thing, whenever you click on the buttons on the software, kindly zoom it, as because they appear very tiny

[anonaa]

Thank you so much .. very simple professional teaching way

[Owais_kalyar]

Why I am so late in finding you.. Outstanding.. very easy to understand...Thank you

[flanker]

Great thanks this video has just opened up a great opportunity for me. Many thanks

[psychotel]

thanks a lot!!! your explanation is so clear it helped as i'm bad with animating!!!