Animation: Adding mouths and blinking eyelids to your character.

I have one last thing to do before I move my character over to After Effects some extra mouths and some blinking eyelids. I’m going to paint each mouth onto a new layer and the same with the blinking eyelids.

About 5 different mouths are good amount. A small O shape, a large O shape, a wide grin, a large grin and a large open mouth. Experiment until you’re happy. I will be doing a tutorial soon all about mouth shapes so watch out. Tomorrow After Effects here we come.

Film Making Tip: Blue Screen Fun

Ben Slotover and Paul Elliott of Blunt Productions show you the basics of bluescreen and how you can get some nice effects using Keying with Adobe After Effects.