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Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life

Preparation for Animation: Photoshop Assets 2

A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator

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Audio: English

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About the video: Preparation for Animation: Photoshop Assets 2

Overview

“I'll show you how I make sure the Photoshop assets are ready. In the next lesson, I'll talk you through importing the file and set up the project in After Effects. ”

In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Preparation for Animation: Photoshop Assets 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

“Preparation for Animation: Photoshop Assets Now we have our assets ready in Photoshop. Before importing everything from After Effects, there's still one thing that we need to prepare: the texture. Remember we've drawn the texture in one frame as a JPEG. We masked it and skinned it on style frames. We'll use the same technique in After Effects. Instead of one frame, we'd like to have a flicking texture animation. To do that, we need to draw two more frames of textures to give some uniqueness to our little noise. Use the brush you used for these textures. Make sure it's black and white becaus...”

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Course summary for: Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (246)
9099 students
5 units
26 lessons (6h 8m)
7 downloads

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

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Illustrator and Animator

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.