Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media

Animating the Secondary Elements 2

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 Secondary Elements 2

Overview

“Now I will continue working with the children of my illustration. First, I'll finish animating the flowers, and then I'll move on to animating the sun. To do this, I will use the Wave Warp effect.”

In this video lesson Carlos Alegría addresses the topic: Animating the Secondary Elements 2, 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 I already have the animated flowers. We have used different techniques for each of them, but all the techniques we have seen. Here we have the Puppet Tool, we have done something with Shape Layers and basic rotation properties. Here we have the result of how the animation is going. This has been one of the secondary elements and now we go for the next one, which is the sun. The sun is behind here. We have this precomposition, so I'm going to double click on it to enter. We see that the construction is quite simple. We have the face over here and a circle with the diff...”

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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.