Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects

Overview

“Using Adobe Illustrator, you will design a minimalist and geometric character. In this lesson, I will guide you in defining their features and finding the simplest resolution for them, whilst maintaining an appealing look. At this stage, the key thing to remember is simplicity: avoid overcomplicating the shapes. This approach will streamline the later stages of the process. Once you're happy with the main shape of your character, the next step is to design the B pose. Let me show you an example of how to do this! ”

In this video lesson Santiago Avila addresses the topic: Designing the Main Object 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects. Learn how to create fully-procedural animations from scratch using experimental visual techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Designing the Main Object In this course, we'll do a supercut. What is a supercut? For our purposes, we'll define it as a sequence of clips which are doing the same motion whilst cutting between different graphic styles. This approach gives a seemingly simple animation, a whole new level of depth by adding editing and rhythm decisions to it. For this course, we'll use Illustrator to prepare our assets, but for the most part, we'll be working in After Effects. We'll take advantage of the two workflows it provides. One is a vector animation environment using shape layers. The other one is a...”

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Course summary for: Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects

• Level: Intermediate
• 93% positive reviews (15)
• 628 students
• 5 units
• 25 lessons (5h 22m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animation, Motion Graphics