Creating Animated Patterns from Ink Sketches

Overview

“In this lesson, you'll create the basics of movement in your animation! I'll start by teaching you how to manipulate and move the fixed elements in a rough way to get a general idea of the flow and timing of your animation. This step is called the animatic! ”

In this video lesson Alice Saey addresses the topic: Animation: After Effects 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Animated Patterns from Ink Sketches. Make patterns move with a bright, colorful, and natural touch using Photoshop, After Effects, and ink-painted graphics.

Partial transcription of the video

“Animation: After Effects In this lesson, we'll create the basics of motion animation. I will move the faux-fixes I imported into After Effects sketchily and schematically to create the outline of the movement and the general timing of my animation. This key step is called the animatic. Now let's start our animatic. I have already put all the elements of my decor and I'll bring my caterpillar into play now, my main character. Like the other layers, I check that the anchor point is right in the center. I will be able to apply a pot of paint to the caterpillar. So. My caterpillar is about the ...”

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Course summary for: Creating Animated Patterns from Ink Sketches

• Level: Beginner
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• 1215 students
• 4 units
• 32 lessons (7h 57m)
• 1 download

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animated Illustration, Animation, Digital Illustration