2D Animation for Beginners with Photoshop and After Effects
Finalizing the drawing
A course by Bruno Bayeux , Visual Artist
About the video: Finalizing the drawing
Overview
“Let's now use Photoshop to finish and color our illustration, organizing the layers in the best possible way, thinking about the animation. ”
In this video lesson Bruno Bayeux addresses the topic: Finalizing the drawing, 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
“finalizing the drawing I will show in this step which tools to use in Photoshop to finish your illustration. I will also teach you how to organize the file to facilitate the animation process. Now let's start the process of finalizing the sketch. The first step is to create a file in the defined format. Mine is in Full HD, 1920 x 1808, and at 72 DPI. As it will be a file for the internet, we don't need more than that. With this file created, we will embed our sketch. You will adapt and make this fit of the margin defined in the sketch with the margin of the drawing. In my illustration, as I...”
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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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