Adobe relatively recently allowed Creative cloud users to use the preview version of Character Animator. This program is specifically made to animate photoshop puppets in a fluent manner. For this is uses a webcam and a multitude of layers and maps in photoshop. Now, the use of layers is always useful, but in character animator there are certain requirements that were asked of the layers that seemed strange to someone who has rarely drawn characters in...

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The last project of this module is a group project, meaning that I need to have a group. Last year my group project was not the best experience I've ever had, as the other members of my group did very little and I carried most of the work of the project, by both writing, directing and editing the video.  Luckily Teresa and Rita...

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In our case, animation comes down to making puppets and moving them in After Effects. To create the puppets I used references and mostly traced the outlines of the figures. Part of these figures we photographed while in London shooting on location while others come from stock pictures.  The puppets are part of the environment in that some of them came out of the...

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