Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects

Preparing the Animation: Layers

A course by Ana Pérez López , Illustrator and Animation Director

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1,952 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Preparing the Animation: Layers

Overview

“In this lesson, I will decide how to animate the object and make sure that the Illustrator file is optimized. I may simplify the animation if I feel like I need to. Ideally, you will have created the illustration according to your own style. However, if you are newish to Adobe After Effects, as a first step feel free to grab my illustration from the folder and use it to follow along. ”

In this video lesson Ana Pérez López addresses the topic: Preparing the Animation: Layers, 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

“ Preparing the Animation: Layers Throughout the course, we've been discussing what we'll animate and how everything should be in layers, but we're all humans and we've made mistakes, so we'll go into it and see what is working and what we need to rework. It's important that we think about what we'll have to transform into shape layers. I know that you might be confused about what's a shape layer and what's a bitmap, but we'll talk about it. We also need to talk about if we'll need masks and how we'll import all of these things and composite them in After Effects. Now, let's dive into the w...”

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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.