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February 3, 2021
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How to make a portrait illustration animate in 3D

  • February 3, 2021
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Hello,

 

I am a semi-beginner in After effects.

 

I have drawn a portrait (illustrator) that is already 3D, I would like to make the head turn towards the camera and smile.

 

Any ideas how it is best to do it in After Effects? I was thinking of filming a head turning towards the camera and smiling and then drawing the frames but the screenshots will be blurry if I do this. Plus I will need to start my Illustration again...:(

 

I attach the portrait, it would be great if anyone has an idea of how I could approach this as simply as possible!

 

Thank you in advance!

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
February 3, 2021

Not sure what you are asking. Unless you care to venture into actual, geometry-based 3D with cinema 4D, all we're talking about is classical frame-by-frame hand cel-type animation. Whether that's done e.g. using the Puppet tool and otehr distortion effects or by converting the artwork to native masks/ shape layer paths and animating those path shapes is ultimately secondary. There are no easy, simple answers here. It's going to be a lot of tedious manual animation work with tons of keyframes.

 

Mylenium

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    val BAuthor
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    February 3, 2021

    Thanks Mylenium, I thought that would be the case! Key frames, I have not used the Puppet tool yet, so maybe that could be worth looking at, it looks pretty good. Previously I have drawn the frames and just put them in as Keyframes (Animate) but it's not always so smooth looking...

     

    Thanks for the approach tips!

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