Wiggly Worm

Overview

Once more, a daunting task was assigned. Last week I finished my bouncing ball. This week, I finished my inchworm animation. As you can hopefully see, I have gotten better at Photoshop. We made the tube shape of the worm on PS, along with our background layers, and imported everything into After Effects. 

Learned

From there, we used a new tool - the Puppet Pin. I messed around a bit with it, tried to use the starch tool, failed at it. Solved the problem by just adjusting the pins instead. After making the worm arch its back a sufficient number of times, I headed on over to the Null tool. That was new. I learned how to move the worm according to the pushes of its body, and after 2 hours I finished the animation completely.

This has been my favorite project I've done in Animation so far (including last year), and this week we'll start working on a walking animation. Should turn out to be quite the challenge.