Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media

Animating the Main Elements 1

A course by Carlos Alegría , Animation Director and Illustrator

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2,073 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Animating the Main Elements 1

Overview

“Let's start cheering! In this lesson, we open After Effects to animate the main parts of the illustration. First I will teach you how to make the eyes blinking and then the hair, continuously undulating. To do this, we are going to use a technique close to frame by frame, or frame by frame, with the Shape Layers tool.”

In this video lesson Carlos Alegría addresses the topic: Animating the Main Elements 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

“Animate main elements In this lesson we will open After and start animating the main elements of the illustration. Specifically, we will animate the eyes opening and closing and hair rippling hypnotically. For this we will use an animation technique close to the traditional frame by frame, but using an After tool called Shape Layers. Let's see them. What we are going to use It is the technique of Shape Layers or shape layers. It's a bit close to traditional animation. It's a bit tedious because you have to go not frame by frame, but almost. Basically it is about modifying the vectors and th...”

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

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (53)
2073 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.