Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media

Creating the Illustration 5

A course by Carlos Alegría , Animation Director and Illustrator

100% positive reviews (53)

2,073 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Creating the Illustration 5

Overview

“Once everything is vectorized and arranged in layers, I will touch up the masked elements and everything will be ready to move on to the next phase: work with After Effects and start animating according to the technique we want to apply.”

In this video lesson Carlos Alegría addresses the topic: Creating the Illustration 5, 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 We already have everything vectorized, clean and ordered by layers, so it will make us much more comfortable. All layers with their name and sorted. The truth is that it's nice to have files like this. One last thing, which I've noticed as I was doing this... It can be done in After Effects, but I like to do it before to edit the design a little. And we have these eyes, for example... It is about the masks, about the masked elements. We have this eye here that we actually have this shape and let's say the pupil and iris are inside this mask, which doesn't quite match...”

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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.