Portfolio Animation with After Effects

Portfolio Animation with After Effects

“So far we have come with this course. Thank you very much for signing up for finishing it. I encourage you to apply everything you have learned in your own portfolio to give it that digital touch and movement that it was missing. For this I advise you to choose one of your projects and first think about which of the elements would work best in motion. For example, if it is a branding system, it could be the logo, a poster, and the web or app design. If you have not designed a poster within branding and would like to encourage it, give yourself the pleasure of doing it! Remember to prepare Photoshop and Illustrator files well, separating everything by layers to give you more options when animating. Work in an orderly and calm way within After Effects and don't forget to install tools that will make your work much easier, such as Keyframe Wingman. Once you have your animations ready, think carefully about which format is best to display them on your website or on your social networks and export them as .mp4 or GIF taking into account the advice I gave you in Unit 5. Don't forget to explore the possibilities of movement applied to your projects and, above all, have a great time! Now share your final project with all of us by clicking on "Create your project". As a final project, I encourage you to share your portfolio and the results of the exercises you have been doing, with GIFs of your creations, accompanied by a brief description of how each process has been: Logo A logo is the basis of any brand project. In Unit 3 I explained how to animate your logo.

Website design If you have done a web design project, including an animation will give it a more finished and attractive look. Animation of a poster In the animation of posters we can play with different elements of graphic design such as illustration, typography, color ... Like website design and logo animation, I explained the whole process in Unit 3 of the course. Integration of the poster and website in mock-ups To give our animations even more life, in Unit 4 of the course we have integrated them into different environments using mock-ups. In this case I have integrated my animated poster into a marquee and a website on a computer monitor. And we cannot forget the overall result. Also share a link to your animated portfolio to see how it has been with all the elements you have created. Finally, I encourage you to be an active part of the community in the forums, both asking about your questions and helping other members. I will be there first to try to make the path easier. I am looking forward to seeing your portfolio with your works in motion. See you soon! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project Finally, we will make a summary of the contents seen in the course. First I told you about myself and my influences in my day to day. Then I explained what you would get in the course. Later I introduced you to Adobe After Effects in order to lose the fear of your tool. Then I showed you how to work with Illustrator and Photoshop files to animate seamlessly in After Effects. Then we saw how it works and how is the "workflow" with this tool and I showed you very interesting examples of portfolios where movement is applied brilliantly. Later you started applying this animation k...”

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Course summary for: Portfolio Animation with After Effects

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (138)
• 5340 students
• 5 units
• 17 lessons (2h 17m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Animation, Branding & Identity, Digital Design, Motion Graphics, Portfolio Development