Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects

How to Find an Idea

A course by Ana Pérez López , Illustrator and Animation Director

100% positive reviews (37)

1,952 students

Audio: English

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About the video: How to Find an Idea

Overview

“Next, I will discuss how to find yourself in the work of others and how to analyze what you like about an image in order to grow your personal voice. A style takes some time to develop, but paying attention to the visual punctuation that is driving a design will train your eye and, eventually, make your hand use it in unique ways. I will guide you in making a personal mood board and an idea board, to be elaborated once the necessary information has been gathered.”

In this video lesson Ana Pérez López addresses the topic: How to Find an Idea, which is part of the Domestika online course: Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects. Learn to how play with lines, shapes, and perspective to create isometric illustrations in Adobe Illustrator and bring them to life with After Effects.

Partial transcription of the video

“ How to Find an Idea In this lesson, we'll talk about how to find your idea. We all spend a lot of time looking at the work of others and that's great, but we always have to try and think why those illustrations work for us. When we think about isometric illustrations, we usually think about these types of not that interesting kind of illustration. If we check the work of some artists, we will see how they show their personality through this skill. This is a piece by Nicolas Ménard where you can see that the perspective is exaggerated. It is fun and full of colour. When you look at these i...”

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Course summary for: Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (37)
1952 students
5 units
31 lessons (7h 22m)
8 downloads

Category
3D & Animation, Illustration
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Areas
2D Animation, Animation, Digital Illustration, Vector Illustration

Ana Pérez López

A course by Ana Pérez López

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Illustrator and Animation Director

Madrid native Ana Pérez López is a digital illustrator and animator based in London. As a restless spirit, she’s changed career paths and countries multiple times, but has always been driven by storytelling. She started as a journalist in Chile and went on to study animation in California before landing in the UK. Her illustration style is characterized by expressive color palettes, playful shapes, and a creative use of perspective that adds a touch of surrealism to her art.

Since switching from written to visual narratives, Ana has worked with clients like Culture Trip, Spotify, Vimeo, Samsung, UN Women, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and The Economist. Her films have been featured at festivals such as SXSW and have earned her several awards, including a Young Guns in 2020 and an Emmy for her collaboration on an animated short for CNN.