Introduction to Photo Animation
Useful Tools
A course by Andrei Franz Mallmann , Animator
About the video: Useful Tools
Overview
“Now, you will get to know useful tools to prepare the image to be animated. ”
In this video lesson Andrei Franz Mallmann addresses the topic: Useful Tools, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Photo Animation. Bring your images to life with exciting techniques in Photoshop and After Effects.
Partial transcription of the video
“useful tools In this class, I will introduce you to the most useful tools when preparing an image to be animated. They will be fundamental throughout our process. Here in Photoshop, I'm going to demonstrate some tools which I use to prepare the image for animation. I'm going to use this image as a base. With Ctrl + Plus, I zoom in and with Ctrl + Min, I zoom out. As we see here, this image is on one layer only, it's all here. All her information is in that same image. The procedure we must do is to go separating all the parts that we'll animate later, in After Effects. For this image here, ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Photo Animation
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
2D Animation, Animation, Character Animation, Motion Graphics

Andrei Franz Mallmann
A course by Andrei Franz Mallmann
Andrei Franz Mallmann is a Brazilian animator who entered the motion graphics world in 2007, specializing in photo animation, a technique used to animate static images.
In this capacity, he's produced work for companies such as HP, Nestlé, UOL, and Habib’s. He currently also works under a wider, more general umbrella, which helps him continually develop his unique artistic eye and produce exclusive pieces.
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