2D Animation for Beginners with Photoshop and After Effects
Preparing your sketch
A course by Bruno Bayeux , Visual Artist
About the video: Preparing your sketch
Overview
“In this class, we will start getting our hands dirty delimiting the space, creating and digitizing the sketch of our final project.”
In this video lesson Bruno Bayeux addresses the topic: Preparing your sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: 2D Animation for Beginners with Photoshop and After Effects. Learn how to transform your 2D illustrations into animated videos with motion graphic techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Preparing your sketch Now that we've defined the theme of our illustration and we did the exercise to drop the dash, let's make the sketch of our final project. The first step is to define the size of the illustration, whether it will be a horizontal, vertical or square illustration. As my illustration is a scenario, I decided to do it horizontally to make better use of the space and place more elements. I have already delimited the space I will use here. With that defined, let's start designing our scenario. based on the exercise we did. First, I define the horizon line of the scenario. It...”
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Course summary for: 2D Animation for Beginners with Photoshop and After Effects
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
2D Animation, Animated Illustration, Animation, Character Animation, Motion Graphics

Bruno Bayeux
A course by Bruno Bayeux
Bruno Bayeux, also known as Nobru, is a visual artist from São Paulo, Brazil. For over a decade, he's been working in design, illustration, and animation, and in his free time he enjoys making music with a small controller, doing graffiti, and creating NFTs.
He has produced music videos for artists like Jordan Seigel, Elo da Corrente, Tiago Frúgoli, and Péricles Cavalcanti, to name just a few, and worked alongside names like Google, Ri Happy, MESA Company, and Editora Moderna. He recently developed the visual identity for the feature film Dentro da Minha Pele by Toni Venturi and Val Gomes, which was released in August 2020.
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