Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects

Animating the Main Objects 2

A course by Ana Pérez López , Illustrator and Animation Director

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1,943 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Animating the Main Objects 2

Overview

“In this lesson, I will continue showing you how to parent things, starting from big to small. If you're unfamiliar with the technicalities of this process, I recommend using the files I have provided and following along with me. If you’ve played around in Adobe After Effects before, feel free to use your own design and experiment. After all, much of the process is trial and error! ”

In this video lesson Ana Pérez López addresses the topic: Animating the Main Objects 2, 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

“ Animating the Main Objects The first thing that we need to do is parent a couple of things. We want this fill, the line, and the stroke to move the same, so that will be a lot of parenting. We have to start from the biggest things that need parenting to the smallest. First, let's parent the whole layer fill to the stroke. That way, we'll be able to do everything on the stroke line and it will happen automatically on the fill and we don't have to keyframe two things that will be the same. Then, we need to go inside here to the Contents, the Groups, into the Path, and into the Path that has...”

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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.