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
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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 :)

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[@khashalfang]

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[@csi7864]

Hey, great video! Thanks for taking the time to explain this all in great detail. I happen to be running into a very annoying problem that is driving me bonkers and I was really hoping you could help.
I follow all your steps, however everytime i go to use the puppet tool and click the image, the mouse turns into a square and does not draw the dots? . if you could help id really appreciate it. Cheers

[@vttcunha]

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

[@naunofurbisness7376]

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.

[@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

[@ROSHANKUMAR-jg9rr]

ME TOO

[@markogajta]

Where do you get your projects request from?

[@estherdavid9509]

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

[@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

[@NilsLindstrom]

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

[@annnellbyne1672]

Your tutorials are by far my favorite for AE!

[@zakariaboutraba7751]

The Music in the backgound is so engaging and your videos are amazingly informative , Thank you !

[@karishmamohun2473]

This is so helpful. I learned a lot! Keep making these videos. Thank you awesome work!

[@Fareeshaaa]

SO EASY!! CAN'T BELIEVE IT CAN BE THIS EASY! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@hessaalrabah4577]

Thanks for the precise & easy tutorial!!! Perfect for a beginner like me 👌👌

[@NomanJohan]

Earned a sub buddy, just starting out AE animations and you could be my go to guy.
THANKS.

[@hwangeunbisssss]

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

[@abhishekanand6640]

You just made it simpler.
Thanks mate.

[@keltalztv]

Sonduck thank you for grooming me in animations and motion graphics. I usually look upto your channel when am out of idea. Now i have a channel just because of you. Thank you

[@SonduckFilm]

That's all you! Great job! Thanks for watching the videos.

[@psychotel2251]

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

[@motionislive5621]

Hey man , thank you so much . God bless you !

[@spacexhub5951]

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

[@SonduckFilm]

You are most welcome! :)

[@SophisticatedMedia]

Maybe try using Adobe Character Animator 2020. There are some tutorials out there. Should be enough to figure it out. It's basicly a similar process, with creating a character puppet via Adobe Illustrator, then pin it in Character Animator and then use your webcam Automate your facial expressions and use shortkeys for animating other bodymovements. Kinda nice program for daily needs of Explainer Videos for example! ✌🏼😎

[@minadief]

@@SophisticatedMedia I'm coming from Adobe character animator , but I see more possibilities here, Character animator is fast, but not flexible as After Effects
but yea for just explainer video , I will use Character Animator and I might green screen the character and use after effects to animate the background, and bring them all together using premiere pro

[@SandeepDasVlogs]

This man is a legend !! very cool tutorial.

[@serenatamilia]

thank you very much. I like this kind of tutorial!

[@muhammadmachado]

Clear and straight. Good job.

[@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😅

[@williamfrances]

You're the man dude, straight to the point😃

[@ThouheethaA]

Thanks for the amazing tutorial.. you are the best!!!

[@anonaa100]

Thank you so much .. very simple professional teaching way

[@giamar66]

This is so helpful. Thanks!

[@adryaalexandria1228]

It worked like a charm, thanks.

[@Andrescg2016]

Muchas gracias por compartirlo, saludos desde Colombia!

[@flanker2565]

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

[@ngocquynhnhuha6271]

Easy & effective, thanks a lot

[@sheenachauhan3008]

thank you for this amazing tutorial

[@monkeydgoofy8074]

thanks for the tutorial it really helps!😻😻

[@PochoNieves]

AWESOME! Short and to the point!

[@gamershaven254]

Man you helped me out here was wondering about this for sometime thanks.😁

[@bhaktidas4951]

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

[@sonyiswatching]

really really useful video, thank you so much!

[@joshbro3729]

awesome brother i did this same vector in my way and is took long time but this look short and sweat you are genius.

[@erfandf1227]

amazing tutorial. keep going

[@Owais_kalyar]

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

[@LinneaSjogrenUtbildning]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I would also love a tutorial on how to rig a puppet from freepik to work in Adobe Character animator.

[@shakoorgilal4231]

You are great man so helpful Everytime

[@dhairyakhare510]

It's very useful for me, thank to share with us 🙏🙏🙏

[@maxthrone]

Nicely explained.. Very helpful tips for beginners 👋👋👍😊 also it will enhance the explainer videos quality👍👍✌🏼

[@EmmanuelThemba]

I love it my guy... this is dope

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[@denysparra1755]

Amazing... great tutorial

[@Rijckenberg]

WAUW!!! Again great tutorial.

[@mamoonbilal5983]

Great and easy and to the point

[@ahmedshah4962]

Thank you so much sir 🙌

[@metome5109]

thats amazing thank you so much!

[@1anchit]

I believe I saw your first video when you had 1k subscribers or so. Look at you now! Congrats!

[@yanraychuk]

Thank you very much! I think I've been using this tutorial about 10 times now :)
By the way, your end screen elements are coming up above your face at the end of the video, possibly you'd want to make them appear later :)

[@RnldsWrap]

OmG! Life changing!!

[@albinaghimire4921]

This is the best character animation tutorial! Thank you so much. ❤

[@ledeol5605]

I'll try that. Simply loved it! Very Smart! regards from Brazil🇧🇷

[@shubhamgangan3271]

really nice videos ..learnt a lot from these

[@AbdulMajeed-ki5qm]

Many many many many thanks dude you are best

[@TylersWellness]

Love your vids bro, subbed.

[@muhammadwasifkhan6903]

sir i really like this animation tutorial

[@shanuka_Hettiarachchi]

its Awesome man. Thanks a lot

[@gauravbhatt9423]

Thank you for this tutorial!!

[@SonduckFilm]

😄😄

[@zachfrancis3089]

thank you so much , it worked

[@janinekey]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! It helped me a lot!

[@soufianeallali3040]

please is it copyright to use this for your youtube videos?

[@keltalztv]

You're worthy to be called a mentor!

[@siththara-3024]

thanks bro very help full

[@tharunsmith]

Thanks for sharing your key tricks. May I know, which system are you using for to run these Adobe software. Can you please share the the configuration of your system

[@campiqmedia3479]

Thank you so much

[@PythonCodeMan]

I smashed the "LIKE" button. I enjoyed the tutorial😋😋

[@LayanAdventures]

amazing........ thank you!

[@rustledesign]

Great vid very helpful

[@naturediscovery10]

It was very helpfull thank you

[@LazyDesigner]

no words guys, thanks a lot

[@viswanathanshanmugam2003]

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

[@masoodahmed6579]

Thankyou so much

[@nayeemrifath848]

This was very helpful bro..

[@suryac5]

Awesome video..... Thank you

[@elyasdemeke23]

Hey Josh I came up with a better way than duplicating the layer many times. It is easier to use keyframes on the opacity than. What do you think?

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Very useful, thank you

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Thanks bro ❤😋

[@chutihudelle184]

This is really tricky . Quite interesting .

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tysm!

[@RBicons]

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[@muhammadhaseeb1604]

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[@HistoryGate]

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[@rp_designs11]

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You can't vicariously experience sotNice tutorialng through another person, the sa way you need to try it for yourself before losing hope.

[@roozbehpapi278]

Very, very excellent. Thank you very much.

[@SonduckFilm]

You're very welcome!

[@yaman-jc8df]

Thanks 👍

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Highly recomended for beginners