Here is a sneak peek and introduction to an excellent tutorial series on Character Animation in After Effects by David Legion. We'll be posting a new part each week, so stay tuned.

Series Overview

Content Breakdown

• Part 1: Building a Displacement Map for the character's face.
• Part 2: Rigging the face using Puppet pins, nulls, and expressions.
• Part 3: Create control expressions using custom sliders.
• Part 4: Automated lip syncing using MamoWorld's Auto Lip Sync.
• Part 5: Create a working jaw with simple shapes.
• Part 6: Create a swinging head of hair for you puppet using simple code.
• Part 7: Create controllers for the heads and eyes.
• Part 8: Switching out language tracks but retaining your lip sync.
• Part 9: Using Cinema 4D to create a basis for your displacement map.