Creating Animated Stories with After Effects

Creating Animated Stories with After Effects

“We have reached the end of this journey through animation with After Effects, now it's your turn! Follow these basic steps to complete your project. We encourage you not to just copy our example, but to experiment and invent something new. Think about the concept of your video.

Do your research and turn ideas into sketches. Select your best ideas and turn them into compositions. Study the colors and arrange them narratively in order to build your storyboard. Proceed with the animation starting from the edit; then move on to general transitions and gradually add more and more detail to the movements. Only when the general pace works can you focus on secondary animations. After finishing the video add the soundtrack and SFX and then export a high resolution master that you can later convert to compressed formats. Now share your project on the forum! Show everyone both the final result and the processing steps, documenting each step with an image and describing what you did with a brief explanation. If possible, we will be happy to comment on your work. Watch colleagues' projects and encourage them by commenting on what they have shared - don't miss the precious opportunity to interact with the creative community. Thanks again for taking this journey with us!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project Here we are at your latest video of your Domestika course. We are very happy we took this trip with you. We hope you enjoyed the course and it will prove useful for your work. We have shown you how to approach the creative process behind the making of an animated video, from the initial idea to delivery. Technique is important, but the search for your personal style is essential. Our final project was born from the desire to investigate a theme, that of research. By brainstorming, different ideas are born, that we have put pen to paper. For us, research has meant finding ourse...”

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Course summary for: Creating Animated Stories with After Effects

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (69)
• 2975 students
• 5 units
• 48 lessons (12h 48m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Procreate

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animated Illustration, Animation