Express Animation for Social Media with After Effects
Creating the scene
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and Motion Grapher
About the video: Creating the scene
Overview
“In this lesson, I will import and build the second scene. We will see more in depth how to create shape layers from layers of Illustrator and, we will use expressions to create our timeline. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Creating the scene, 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
“Creating the scene As we finish our file in Illustrator, We will import it into After Effects to build our scene, We will also see a little more in depth how to convert Illustrator Layers Shape Layers in After Effects and finally we will use expressions to build a timeline. Let's go to work! We are going to import the file that we made in the previous lesson, I'm going to import it as a composition, keeping the size of the layers, I give to open I'm going to change the name of the composition that I imported the After Effects to "Scene two" and I'm also going to put that name to the graphic...”
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Course summary for: Express Animation for Social Media with After Effects
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3D & Animation, Marketing & Business -
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Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
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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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