Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media

Adding Sound to the Animation

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: Adding Sound to the Animation

Overview

“In this lesson, we are going to try to add sound to the animation. To do this, I will search for music and sound effects in some online music banks.”

In this video lesson Carlos Alegría addresses the topic: Adding Sound to the Animation, 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

“Add sound to animation In this lesson we will look at sound banks music or sound effects to add to the animated illustration. You will see that with a very basic edition we will be able to give much more life to our animation. I'll show it to you. I have different pages selected here. We can navigate between different libraries stock sound and search for something that convinces us or that fits what we do in our project. For music we have several that are typical. We have music bed. We have Music Vine too. Even this one called Marmoset Music, which is very good because it is more independen...”

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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.