Introduction to 2D Animation in After Effects

Overview

“In this lesson, I'll walk you through each of the scenes I created in the animation and show you the techniques I used for each section. You'll get insight and a feel for which scenes lend themselves to animation with keyframes and which lend themselves to frame-by-frame sequencing. I also show you how to create an outro using a mask. ”

In this video lesson Laura Dajana Kroschewski addresses the topic: More tips for After Effects, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to 2D Animation in After Effects. Learn to bring charming characters and emotive scenes to life using fundamental animation techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“More tips for After Effects In this lesson, I'll give you more tips. I will share with you my animation in its timeline Go through completely and show where I'm using keyframes and where I worked with single images. Here is my final animation. I'll go through the timeline with you again in a moment and say at what point I'm using keyframes and at which point I worked stop-motion based and how the mask was created here in the end, so that the whole thing ends on black. Starting with the first scene we have the background file, which has been keyframed from top to bottom, to create the effect...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to 2D Animation in After Effects

• Level: Beginner
• 63% positive reviews (8)
• 419 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 23m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animated Illustration, Animation, Character Animation, Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration