For these projects I was tasked with animating the given characters in Adobe After Effects, all the characters and their rigs were provided to us by The Open Window Institute.
All I had to do was animate them.
First we have a walk cycle of a man trying to be sneaky as he takes longs steps and precise steps as to avoid being heard, I also added the sound of leaves crumbling as he steps to add to the scene.
Secondly is 4 characters animated with four different emotions, Happiness, anger, sadness and surprise. All four play at the same time and start and end at the same frame in order for it to create a looping GIF if I rendered it as a GIF.
Thirdly is a monologue, I was tasked with using the given audio and character to animate and lip sync the character to seem as if the character is talking.
Fourth is another character given to us that we had to animate, a two legged eyeball trying to get its ball back as it jumps up against a plank to retrieve its ball.
Lastly we had to make use of the given character to animate any emotion/expression onto, I chose to go with a surprised emotion for the character.
Performative walk cycle of the sneaky man.
Performative character emotes.
Performative Monologue.
Performative Jump.
Character expression exercise.