Basics of Character Animation with After Effects
Importing into AfterEffects
A course by Yimbo Escárrega , Animator and Motion Grapher
About the video: Importing into AfterEffects
Overview
“Now we will import the elements that we needed to finish our composition and we will finish organizing our project. ”
In this video lesson Yimbo Escárrega addresses the topic: Importing into AfterEffects, 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 are going to take Photoshop animations and we import them into After Effects. In addition to this, let's see how animations can be combined, both those of frame by frame, as those of previous lessons. And well, let's start. Here we have Smear 1 and Smear two. We are going to record this and import it into After Effects to include it in our final animation. In After Effects I double click, I import "U8 L3 Smear 2", I will import as a composition and I will open it. I'm going to open it again and let's see what After Effects does. It makes us a composition called "U8 L3 Sme...”
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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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