Kinect MoCap Animation in After Effects — Part 4: Rigging a Digital Puppet
- At February 27, 2012
- By Victoria
- In Tutorials
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Yes, it’s the part you’ve all been waiting for: it’s finally time to set up your character layers!
This was originally going to be in Part 3, but there are so many steps I realized I needed to break things down a bit more.
Read More»Kinect MoCap Animation in After Effects — Part 3: Building the Puppet Rigging Template
- At February 17, 2012
- By Victoria
- In Tutorials
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You can download the After Effects project file here (CS5+).
Welcome back! So now that you have your tracking data recorded, it’s time to build a character to apply it to. This is where things get a bit complicated.
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Kinect MoCap Animation in After Effects — Part 1: Getting Started
- At February 5, 2012
- By Victoria
- In Tutorials
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Hey folks! Welcome to part 1 of my new tutorial series. Part 2 is here and Part 3 is here. The text is a transcript of the YouTube video, so read or watch — it’s up to you!
Hello, I’m Victoria Nece. I’m a documentary animator, and today I’m going to show you how to use your Kinect to animate a digital puppet like this one in After Effects.
Read More»Embroidered Text in Photoshop
- At May 2, 2008
- By Victoria
- In Tutorials
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A friend of mine was working on some logos for a little league team and asked me for a way to make text look as if it had been embroidered onto a uniform.
After a fair amount of experimentation, it turns out it’s not that hard to do — but it does take a little tweaking. The final results are surprisingly versatile.
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