Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life
Finishing in After Effects
A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator
About the video: Finishing in After Effects
Overview
“In this lesson, you'll be importing transition animation from Animate and some useful effects to finalise and stylise the animation in After Effects. ”
In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Finishing in After Effects, 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
“Finishing in After Effects In this lesson, we will combine everything in After Effects to make our loop. We will learn how to use some effects to finalise and stylise our animation. Instead of rendering everything together like with the test, we will render it colour by colour. I will turn off the white and red, and only keep the black layer here. The reason to do this is because it's easier to compose it in After Effects. I can add patterns and textures on each part if they're separated in different layers. I'll go to Publish Settings and I'll name it part by part. I will name this one "bl...”
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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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