Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life
Style Frames 2
A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator
About the video: Style Frames 2
Overview
“Crop and put the 5 frames in your storyboard in different ratio templates. ”
In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Style Frames 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life. Transform your unique drawings into playful motion graphics with Photoshop, After Effects, and Animate.
Partial transcription of the video
“Style Frames Now that we have our main character ready, we can start adding background elements and patterns. We can turn our sketch back on. There are quite a few shapes here and we can start drawing those shapes. Go to this tool here. We can select the Rectangular. If you push down your Shift key, it will become a regular square. Right click and you'll see the option of Make Work Path. Keep the Tolerance at 0.5 or lower. Now, you see, we have a path for our square. Then, click Pen tool. This method gives you a more refined geometric shape. Although I quite like to hand draw it sometimes, ...”
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Course summary for: Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
2D Animation, Animated Illustration, Animation, Digital Illustration, Motion Graphics, Traditional illustration
Yukai Du
A course by Yukai Du
Yukai Du is a Chinese-born illustrator and animator based in London, UK. At just 15 years old, she began training at GuangZhou Academy of Fine Arts where she learned to work with acrylic and still life paintings, pencil drawings, and sculpture. From there, she went on to study animation at college, where her traditional art skills were put into practice. It was there that she discovered her passion for creating craft-like illustrations and animations, and she later moved to London to pursue a Master’s degree in those art forms.
After graduating, she worked at various studios in the UK including M-I-E and Bliink. Since then, as a freelancer, she has collaborated with well-known brands including The New Yorker, Spotify, The Guardian, MTV, Adobe, Apple, and WeTransfer. Her work has also been recognized by Adobe Design Awards, 3x3 International Illustration Awards, and more.
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