Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media

Animating the Background and Creating the Final Composition

A course by Carlos Alegría , Animation Director and Illustrator

100% positive reviews (53)

2,074 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Animating the Background and Creating the Final Composition

Overview

“Lastly, I'm going to finish animating the background elements and touch up the composition a bit in general to finish giving the whole a bit more depth.”

In this video lesson Carlos Alegría addresses the topic: Animating the Background and Creating the Final Composition, 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 the background and create the final composition In this lesson we will try to animate other background elements and at the same time try to adjust our final composition to give it some depth. Let's see it. We already have the main elements animated, What are the eyes and hair? We've also animated some of the child elements, like these flowers here, the sun with its rays, the tears, this shine here, and now we have to animate a background element and play around with the layers to give more depth to the composition. Let's start by animating the arc that we have here in the background...”

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

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (53)
2074 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.