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Basics of Character Animation with After Effects

Organizing the project

A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and motion grapher

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11,746 students

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About the video: Organizing the project

Overview

“In this lesson we will import our illustration to After Effects and we will organize our project to avoid mistakes. ”

In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Organizing the project, which is part of the Domestika online course: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects. Learn to bring your characters to life and showcase their true personality.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we will see how to bring the Illustrator file to After Effects. I will explain how to import it and how to organize the file. All this, to avoid problems later and not to take away lot of time. Let's start. Since I finished my illustration, I can import it here, to After Effects. I go to the Project Panel, I double-click to import. I'm going to unit 5, Illustrator, take the avatar file, I'm going to open it. Open as composition, to keep the size of "layer". I give ok, and After Effects matters. I leave the "layers" turned off, because that's how I recorded it at the end. I m...”

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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (398)
11746 students
8 units
37 lessons (5h 48m)
16 downloads

Category
3D & Animation
Software
Adobe After Effects
Areas
3D Animation, Animation, Character Animation

Yimbo Escárrega

A course by Yimbo Escárrega

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Animator and motion grapher

Yimbo is a graphic and motion designer from Tijuana who has vast professional experience in the field of animation. In 2007, he founded Black Dog studio where he worked with companies like Aeroméxico, Sprite, adidas, and Sony Vaio. He then switched roles to animation lead at Pictoline in 2015, adding motion to stories that were shared daily on social media. The experience he gained during his time there gave him the ability to create animation at the speed of light.

Yimbo currently works as a freelancer and regularly collaborates on different projects and with other designers like Eraboy and Charles Glaubitz.