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Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life

Adobe After Effects 4

A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator

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9,099 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Adobe After Effects 4

Overview

“I'm going to show you how to change colours for the background and how the state can change colour with the background.”

In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Adobe After Effects 4, 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 have our character and our background shapes animated. We can look into our background colours. Recalling our storyboard, the colour changed in the transition and then changed back. It's between blue and yellow. Go back to our Master Comp. We can see our Photoshop background is here. I'd normally create a new solid layer in After Effects because I think it's clearer in After Effects and it's also easier for me to see in the solid layer. Go to Layer, New, Solid. We started with the blue colour, so I'll colour pick the blue. In After Effects, it will automatically name ...”

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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.