Over the years there have been a number of times I have been requested to create fully animated character assets for use in different projects. For the most part these animated promos utilized preexisting characters, which I built new from reference pictures or created by greatly modifying provided stationary vector assets.While the resulting "puppet" does often times require quite a bit of labor to finalize for use, the resulting asset not only allows for easy modularity and range of motion, both large and fine, but also may easily be utilized for other client project uses in future if need be,likely requiring a significantly lower time cost if any to add new motion options.
The separated character sections of the Corn King company mascot, derived and updated from the logo source file. Additional pose assets were created to smooth transition states and to facilitate additional motion expressions. These elements were then "parented" together in After Effects to create a solid multi-use puppet.