“3D” Head Rotation for Detailed Artwork in After Effects

In this tutorial, I’ll be covering how to get a “3D” like head rotation from detailed artwork that can be easily animatable after the fact. Liquify is our friend. :)

Beginners beware, I'll be covering advanced techniques with expressions and skimming over the basics.

VIDEO OUTLINE
Breakdown - 0:48
Liquify - 1:38
Animating - 14:08
Final animation and thoughts - 21:20

AFPDELAY SCRIPT TUTORIAL
Script Overview -

SCRIPT DOWNLOAD LOCATION
AFPPackage.zip -
(These scripts are free and of my own making. Current build ONLY supports After Effects CC 2018/2019 for Windows 7/10 and Mac OSX in English and has had limited testing. These scripts are not required to animate your environment with the global variable concept, think of them as more of a luxury and time saver! Also, currently, 3D position is not support.)

DISCORD
Have questions? Join my discord and lets chat!


ART
Beautiful art "Maehwa" by JINWU
Twitter - @ _Z2NOO
Instagram - manduovo
Artstation -

MUSIC
Above by VESHZA
Dusk (Instrumental Version) by VESHZA
Never Looking Back (Instrumental Version) VESHZA
Seaside Cafe by Anton Vlasov

SOFTWARE
Adobe After Effects (duh!)
AFPCollection (Scripts)
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Audition
Sublime Text Editor

WORKSTATION
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor -
64GB RAM G.SKILL -
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition -
2 1TB M.2 Samsung 970 PRO Series -
X399 MSI Extended-ATX Motherboard -
Dell U3419w Ultrasharp 34-Inch -

CAMERA GEAR
Sony a7S II -
Sony Distagon T FE 35mm f/1.4 ZA -
Sony FE 70-200mm F4 -
XYH6 Recorder -
Rode NTG-2 Microphone -
Viltrox L116T LED -
Kamerar D-Fuse Softbox -

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