Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life
Adobe Animate / Flash 1
A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator
About the video: Adobe Animate / Flash 1
Overview
“Here you'll be creating a frame-by-frame transition animation in Animate by using After Effects render as a timing guide. ”
In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Adobe Animate / Flash 1, 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
“In this lesson, we are going to import our After Effects render to animate. This work in progress animation can be used as our position and timing reference. animate was called flash. It was commonly used in web animation. Since it joined the Adobe family, it's been more compatible with After Effects. Although Photoshop can do frame by frame animation, I do prefer animate because it's more efficient with a better view on frames and onion skins. However, it has only one vector brush. That's why we need to go back to After Effects later. and let's open Animate. and this is the landing page of...”
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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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