Express Animation for Social Media with After Effects
Idea and storyboard
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and Motion Grapher
About the video: Idea and storyboard
Overview
“In this lesson we will make a very simple and fast storyboard, which will help us decide how to tell our story.”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Idea and storyboard, which is part of the Domestika online course: Express Animation for Social Media with After Effects. Learn a quick and easy way to create animations.
Partial transcription of the video
“The Storyboard Before the animation, it is very important to plan it. Let's first download the idea and then a Storyboard. For animation, we relied on a studio I saw about procrastination, which says that 64% of people agree to procrastinate in their work and that percentage, 41%, does it on Facebook and 37% do it on LinkedIn, and they do it looking for another job. Let's start with the sketching. When making a Storyboard, I recommend that they are not detailing for a long time, This Storyboard will only be used as a guide where our story is going to go. So, we start with the intro. The int...”
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Course summary for: Express Animation for Social Media with After Effects
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Category
3D & Animation, Marketing & Business -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
2D Animation, Animation, Character Animation, Motion Graphics, Social Media, Social Media Design, Storyboard, YouTube Marketing

Yimbo Escárrega
A course by Yimbo Escárrega
Yimbo is a designer and motion grapher from Tijuana who has more than a decade of experience in animation. In 2007, he founded Black Dog studio where he worked with companies like Aeroméxico, Sprite, adidas, and Sony Vaio. He then switched roles to animation lead at Pictoline in 2015, adding motion to stories that were shared daily on social media. The experience he gained during his time there gave him the ability to create animation at the speed of light.
Yimbo currently works as a freelancer and regularly collaborates on different projects and with other designers like Eraboy and Charles Glaubitz.
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