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Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life

Adobe After Effects 2

A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator

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Audio: English

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About the video: Adobe After Effects 2

Overview

“Now you have your animatic ready! By now you should have a rough structure of the loop and it is time to move onto some animation effects that I'll show you in this lesson. ”

In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Adobe After Effects 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

“Adobe After Effects Now we have our animatic ready. It gives you a rough structure of our animation loop. This is also a good stage to involve some designers or test any soundtracks if you'd like to include any audio. In this project, we'll not use any sound to keep it simple. We can now move on to some After Effects animation once we're happy with the animatic. Remember, we still have all the compositions here. You can see two Girl compositions but they're the same source file. If you animate one of these, it's the same and they both will be animated. Let's start with the Girl animation fi...”

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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.