Learn How to Rig and Animate a Character and Create your Own Odyssey Day 2

Marcin Zeglinski on Jul 8th 2009 with 16 comments

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This is part 2 of this very comprehensive tutorial where you will learn how to rig and animate a character using a combination of Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects and create an incredible, cinematic odyssey piece.

Part 2 breaks down the compositing techniques used in all the shots.

Tutorial

Download Tutorial .flv

File size 351MB

Requirements:
Adobe Illustrator (download trial version here)
Adobe Photoshop (download trial version here)

Optional:
Trapcode Particular (download trial version here)

 
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Discussion 16 Comments

  1. jchn82 says:
    July 8, 2009 at 6:57 am

    nice

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  2. jchn82 says:
    July 8, 2009 at 6:57 am

    wowo!

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  3. Loay says:
    July 8, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Thanks a lot

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  4. Adam Sklar says:
    July 8, 2009 at 9:59 am

    Awesome. Watching right now. :)

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  5. Alj says:
    July 8, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    nice one i really like it

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  6. michael keal says:
    July 9, 2009 at 6:31 am

    You need learn the main base of the realistion
    it s ugly

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  7. Vith says:
    July 9, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Why not use .torrent for download? I thought it was a great idea.

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  8. keviexclusive says:
    July 9, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    reminds me of astral projection
    very nice

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  9. Stijn Jasper says:
    July 10, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Very nice

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  10. Chris says:
    July 11, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Great presentation and fantastic effects.

    It would’ve been better if we have ur project files or start from stage one to see how you build up the entire sequence and final project.

    AE is usually very daunting for the faint hearted!!

    Thanks

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  11. pizzaroll slaughter says:
    July 13, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    nice use of m83!

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  12. Miamito says:
    July 15, 2009 at 11:10 am

    Nice !!
    Great work

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  13. Tostian says:
    July 26, 2009 at 9:41 am

    wow.. great! thanks!

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  14. Hakan says:
    October 3, 2009 at 6:44 am

    very nice project.

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  15. matthew says:
    November 3, 2009 at 5:22 am

    I love how Billy is nowhere to be found in the more complex tutorials.

    #1 fan
    -Matthew

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  16. alex says:
    June 13, 2011 at 5:44 am

    Man your great .. but i dont like you.I really want to make this beautiful animation .. but i dont understand i want you to start from the begining (from nothing) .. i dont understand :(

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