Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Importing into After Effects
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and Motion Grapher
About the video: Importing into After Effects
Overview
“We will import our character into After Effects and organize our project to avoid mistakes later. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Importing into After Effects, 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 import After Effects to Photoshop illustration, We will organize the project, and leave it ready for the Rig. Let's keep going. Double click here in Project Panel, to open the window to import, I'm going to drive 6, PSD, Illustration. Here in Options, as we have seen, I will choose Composition, and I'm going to tell him to let me see the size of the layers. I give Open, OK. Here we have it. The Composition and a folder with all the layers that we import. We will organize them, as we did last time, "00 render". Here I will take this composition, "01 comps", "02 precomp...”
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Course summary for: Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
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3D Animation, Animation, Character Animation
Yimbo Escárrega
A course by Yimbo Escárrega
Yimbo is a designer and motion grapher from Tijuana who has more than a decade of experience in 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.
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