Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop
Working with Video Layers
A course by Martina Hoffmann , Freelance Illustrator, Art Director, and Producer
Joined May 2021
About the video: Working with Video Layers
Overview
“Learn what video layers are and how to use them to create frame-by-frame animation.”
In this video lesson Martina Hoffmann addresses the topic: Working with Video Layers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop. Discover how to draw creative characters and bring portraits to life with animated elements.
Partial transcription of the video
“Working with video layers You've prepared your Photoshop to work with the Timeline panel. In this lesson I'll show you how to animate with video layers. To make it easier to work with the animation layers in Photoshop, I'll show you a few tricks who I work with. Let's say I want to animate a bouncing ball now. For this I can delete the two layers here. I create a new video layer, make sure that the time indicator is where you need the new video layer. Because when I put it on here, it appears at frame 0. But when I'm here with the timer, it appears at this point. Sometimes it happens that y...”
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Course summary for: Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop
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3D & Animation, Illustration -
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Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Animated Illustration, Animation, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration

Martina Hoffmann
A course by Martina Hoffmann
Martina Hoffmann is a Berlin-based freelance illustrator, art director, and producer of animated advertisements and short films with more than 15 years of experience. She is passionate about art in all its forms, which is reflected by the broad range of illustration styles, artistic approaches, and mediums she uses to create her projects, each with their own visual language.
She has collaborated with advertising agencies, children's publishers, and organizations in the scientific, educational, and social fields. Her animated productions are fully independent, meaning she designs and animates each piece from start to finish. Since 2005, she has been promoting her illustrations as self-published postcards, prints, and calendars through the organization Stift & Papier.
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