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"Knobby Knees" - A Seagull Animation

This was a small personal project to get familiar with After Effects character animation. I created a very simple vector seagull illustration in Illustrator and then rigged the character in After Effects. I watched videos I took of seagulls walking and flying to get an idea of how their wings and legs bent and moved during takeoff. This was a great project as it taught me a lot about properly setting up your character rigging before beginning on the actual movements. This was important to keep all vector layers moving with the character.
Initial sketches to map out the movements of the seagull and letters.
"Knobby Knees" - A Seagull Animation
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"Knobby Knees" - A Seagull Animation

A salty seagull with some knobby knees - seagull animation to practice some After Effects.

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