Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects

Clean Lines 1

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: Clean Lines 1

Overview

“Next, I will use Adobe Illustrator to give the illustration a clean line. You will learn how to set up your artboard and keep everything in layers so that it can be animated. I will give you a couple of tricks and shortcuts so that you can work efficiently. Then, it will be time to clean up with the pen and pencil tool, using shapes and a 3D extrude effect that will speed your work. ”

In this video lesson Ana Pérez López addresses the topic: Clean Lines 1, 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

“ Clean Lines Now, we'll go ahead and clean our sketch. We'll use Illustrator for this. Illustrator gives us different tools to do this. Some are better and some are not that great. We'll start by talking about the 3D extrude effect. This is great for simple objects but when we do something complicated or if your style is not that rigid, it won't be very satisfactory. We will be mainly working old-school. This means that we will be drawing with the Pen tool and the Pencil tool. We'll also use shapes and talk about how to merge paths. I'll also walk you through some of the shortcuts that wil...”

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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.