because users are able to add and drop “scenes”, am I correct that this template can be stretched for any length of time needed?

Yes. You can use up to 32 scenes, but you don’t have to. You can use only 1 scene if you want and this is all really easy to adjust. The scenes can be arranged in any order you prefer and you can even duplicate a scene and use it twice if you want to. You could perhaps time-stretch each scene if you really want to control timing to the second.

Also the more experienced AE user could drag in some of the pre-made character animations and create their own scenes from scratch. Add some text layers or graphical elements of your own and you can start building even a more unique video.

The shaking hands scene is now in the preview video. I have also added a “real estate” scene. Please check the preview(near the ending).

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Man you are awesome ! is it possible to change the zombie clothes or to make a female zombie also ?

You are able to change its hairstyle into female ones and change the hair color through the Character Creator. The rest is not changeable at the moment since this is an ‘instant-character’ created for a quick and easy solution. Unless of course you are very proficient in After Effects and know how to change shapelayers and delete some of the expressions. This would require a certain skills and I wouldn’t advise it if you are quite new to AE

You are able to change its hairstyle into female ones and change the hair color through the Character Creator. The rest is not changeable at the moment since this is an ‘instant-character’ created for a quick and easy solution. Unless of course you are very proficient in After Effects and know how to change shapelayers and delete some of the expressions. This would require a certain skills and I wouldn’t advise it if you are quite new to AE

I cant find that preset on the files

Hey thanks for your purchase

Have you watched the #1 Introduction.mp4 video tutorial? You’ll have to install both .jsx files in the Scripts folder prior to starting the project in order for it to work properly. And you’ll need to reboot AE once.

Please watch the video tutorial which will explain you how to do this. If you need any more help please email me through my profile page so I can be of better assistance.

*EDIT

While reading your comment again, I advise you to watch the #3.5 Creating Your Character [with Version 2].mp4 video tutorial. I think you are trying to change the character looks with only one Main Contoller. However, every character has a seperate controller so you can have about 12 different looking characters on screen! This was updated in V2 as it was a much requested feature.

I have added some additional child elements to the new version 3 of this template and also show in a video tutorial how you can create smaller characters. I have also included a ‘family’ scene. You can re-download en reinstall the scripts if you’d like to make us of all this.

Please email me through my profile page. This way we can discuss this more easily. I will probably have to make a small video tutorial on how to do this.

Hello, ok i have understand it works. Absolute great work. My Tip “Buy”.

Thanks man, I have just recorded a video for you and will be uploading it to vimeo if you still need it? I will send u the link in the video to your email address.

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This project is beginner friendly and I think it won’t take too much of your time. Changing the texts and colors can be done really easily as I show in the video tutorials.

I think as a beginner you can achieve some nice results within 1 or 2 hours. And if you need any help or advice you can always add me on Skype or send me an email.

Thanks for your suggestion. An update is already coming this weekend (uploading as we speak). So I will include your request in the next update!

Hey I just wanted to let you know I have updated the template and there is now a camera with a take photograph action included. Check the end of the video preview for an example.

Thanks steu

Hey kyra thanks for your purchase! To tell you the truth, this template was not designed to alter the actual curves and shapes of the bodies. I advise everybody to stick to the Character Creator, where it is already possible to achieve many different looking characters by changing clothing, hairs, additional elements and colors. It is not possible to make them look fatter, skinnier or bulkier.

The fracturing happens because of the puppet’s tool mesh only covers a certain area, and I haven’t found a way to prevent this from happening. If every character had a different build, and meanwhile the puppet tool pins are always on the same spot, you just get weird fracturing.

So personally I think what you are trying to achieve is pretty advanced stuff and goes beyond my knowledge of AE. I guess the only way you could do this, is unlink all the characters from the puppet tools and reshape their bodies and then create new puppet pins and bones again. Be warned because this process will take a lot of time and you can really get lost in the maze of expressions that are used.

As we speak I’m working for an update to this template. I’m adding in 12 newly designed character outfits that I hope to have finished pretty soon. Maybe this will help to add more diversity to your characters?

Thanks for the speedy and detailed reply. I see exactly what you mean, I hadn’t noticed the puppet reshaping applied. Unfortunately for me that limits how useful the template will be for this project (as body diversity is absolutely necessary across about 30 characters!) but hopefully I’ll be able to use George and all the other great elements in a different project soon.

Thanks for your understanding kyra. Good luck with your project!

Hehe you didn’t miss it in the end! It’s only been online for 3 days

Thanks!

Good question. Well you can duplicate your initial character as many times as you want but you aren’t able to have them all look differently within the same project. All characters will be linked to the character creator at all times so once you change the values in the character creator, all characters will change.

The only way to have this feature would be to create an unique character creator/controller for each character, which will obviously take some time to create.

For now, you could of course export a character as a PNG sequence or .mov with an alpha channel and add it back in to the project.

I hope to update this template with some more character types and graphical elements pretty soon and I will take a look at adding some separate character creators as well.

Thanks! I’ll find a way to make it work. Looking forward to the update!

Updated! Please re-download your purchase from your downloads page. You can now have up to 12 different looking characters on screen. You might need to reinstall the .jsx scripts though. Have fun

Thanks! Yes there are 3 female haircuts and also a female eyelash addition to the eyes available.

Thanks, I really like your music

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Thanks for your suggestion! Will note it down.

Hi sletts02! I just wanted to let you know that this template is now updated and that it includes your request of a teacher-style character. Feel free to check the description page for a preview.

Thanks heaps

Thank you nuke!

Thanks Nenad