Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life
Adobe After Effects 3
A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator
About the video: Adobe After Effects 3
Overview
“Now I'll show you how to animate some of the background shapes. ”
In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Adobe After Effects 3, 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 We can now move on to some background shapes. Remember all of the backgrounds are sharing the same shapes, and patterns in our background. Now, we can go to our background shape composition, because the main element is the girl transition into the circle, so I like to keep the background very subtle like how we do it in our storyboard. Let's go back to our composition. Remember when we import the elements Retain Layer Sizes. This is why. Because if you retain the layer sizes, the anchor point and the whole layer is on its own, is cropped to the shape we need. But if you ...”
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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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