Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media

Creating the Illustration 1

A course by Carlos Alegría , Animation Director and Illustrator

100% positive reviews (53)

2,093 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Creating the Illustration 1

Overview

“We are going to work on the sketch in Illustrator until the illustration is ready. Working with vectors will help you make the illustration more agile to animate. I'll walk you through how to organize and prepare your file to make it easier when you move into After Effects. ”

In this video lesson Carlos Alegría addresses the topic: Creating the Illustration 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media. Learn animation techniques to bring your vector illustrations to life using After Effects and discover how to stand out on social media.

Partial transcription of the video

“Create the illustration In this lesson we are going to focus on reviewing the sketch and the color block to create the final illustration. We will use Illustrator because working with vector format will speed things up later when making the animation. Also keep in mind that we should organize and prepare the file to make it easier to animate in After Effects. Let's see it. We have already jumped to Illustrator and here we have our black and white sketch, with the line quite defined and clean and the color block in small to the side to have as a guide and when we have to apply color, know wh...”

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Course summary for: Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (53)
2093 students
4 units
22 lessons (4h 55m)
7 downloads

Category
3D & Animation
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator
Areas
2D Animation, Animated Illustration, Animation, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Carlos Alegría

A course by Carlos Alegría

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Animation Director and Illustrator

Carlos Alegría is a graphic designer specialized in illustration and animation in the field of motion graphics. His favorite personal projects are turning illustrations into animated GIFs—short pieces where the illustration comes to life thanks to the animation and reels in the viewer with a new narrative layer.

He has worked for several years as a freelancer for animation studios and international brands, with a particular focus on new technologies. He currently works as an art director at Bien, a motion graphics studio in Los Angeles. His primary focus is the storytelling aspect of the projects they create.