Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life
Adobe Animate / Flash 2
A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator
About the video: Adobe Animate / Flash 2
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you how to create keyframes to set up the structure. Once the key animation is in place, you can test the transition in After Effects to see if it works with the rest of the timeline. ”
In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Adobe Animate / Flash 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 Animate / Flash Now, we can go back to our Black_Hair layer, the one we drew at the beginning, and we can create keyframes on this layer now. Unlock the Black_Hair layer. Remember that the animation starts on the third frame, if you look back to our After Effects animation reference, it starts in this frame. Turn it off. I'll insert a new keyframe here. The blue, you can see, is our Onion Skin and you see that the blue one is the previous frame, which I find very useful and that's why I like to use Animate, because the Onion Skin here is much clearer than in Photoshop. Now, I'll follo...”
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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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