Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media
Animating the Secondary Elements 1
A course by Carlos Alegría , Animation Director and Illustrator
About the video: Animating the Secondary Elements 1
Overview
“In this lesson, it's time to animate the child elements, each using different techniques. I'll start with the flowers, for which I'll use basic properties and tools like the Puppet Tool.”
In this video lesson Carlos Alegría addresses the topic: Animating the Secondary 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 child elements We already have the main animated elements. Now we go with the secondary. For the children of our illustration we are going to use different techniques or different tools. For example, for the sun and rays we will use Wave Warp and for the flowers the Puppet Tool. We will also use some basic properties to animate other child elements. Let's start. To animate the child elements, we're going to start with the flowers. Let us remember that we have all the flowers grouped here, in a single preset, that if we double click on it, we enter to work on it. So let's animate a s...”
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Course summary for: Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media
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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
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.
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