Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media

Final Details: Textures 1

A course by Carlos Alegría , Animation Director and Illustrator

Animation Director and Illustrator. Las Palmas, Spain.
Joined September 2016
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2,073 students
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About the video: Final Details: Textures 1

Overview

“It's time to give the visual aspect a final polish. For a more traditional feel, I'll show you how to add some textures to your animated illustration.”

In this video lesson Carlos Alegría addresses the topic: Final Details: Textures 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

“Final details: textures In this lesson, we'll give the visuals a final polish. We will try to give it a more artisanal and handmade look using some textures that we will do in Photoshop or we will automatically generate in After Effects. We will also give a little roughness to the stroke and we'll touch a bit on color levels in general. Let's see it. Now, we will add textures to our composition. The way I usually do it is by creating some files or some textures or strokes directly in Photoshop. The first thing we want to do is export this composition to have it as a reference and paint a li...”

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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

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.


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Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media

A course by Carlos Alegría
Animation Director and Illustrator. Las Palmas, Spain.
Joined September 2016
  • 100% positive reviews (53)
  • 2,073 students