Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects

Adding Dimension with Lights and Shadows 1

A course by Ana Pérez López , Illustrator and Animation Director

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Audio: English

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About the video: Adding Dimension with Lights and Shadows 1

Overview

“Now that we have a clean, solid base for the illustration, it's time to work on the lights and shadows as well as the extra details. Depending on your own style, feel free to be as realistic or as nonrealistic as you want!”

In this video lesson Ana Pérez López addresses the topic: Adding Dimension with Lights and Shadows 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

“ Adding Dimension with Lights and Shadows As we've coloured our illustration, we'll move on to adding lights and shadows. Feel free to be as realistic or as unrealistic as you want. I don't have a very realistic style, so it doesn't make sense to me to be meticulous about shadows and lights. I like quirky and I like weird kinds of things, so that's how my shadows should look too. However, if that is not your case, go ahead and get as crazy as you want with shadows. The last thing we'll have to do is add some highlights and details, so let's get to it. Adding shadows and small glows can add...”

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Course summary for: Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (36)
1943 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.