Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects
The Third Look (Halftone): Fill Effects
A course by Santiago Avila , Graphic and Motion Designer
About the video: The Third Look (Halftone): Fill Effects
Overview
“After finishing the brushstroke and airbrushed looks, it's time to move to the final style. This is inspired by a 2000's vector style with some nods to printmaking. This look will be based on "Gradient Fills" within the Shape Layers, and using "CC Ball Action" to define an abstract halftone grid. ”
In this video lesson Santiago Avila addresses the topic: The Third Look (Halftone): Fill Effects, 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
“ The Third Look (Halftones): Fill Effects In this lesson, we'll start our third and final look. This look will be inspired by the 2000's vector style using overlapped strokes and halftones, and it's inspired by games like "Jet Grind Radio" and maybe even a bit of "Into the Spider-Verse." Let's have a look. We'll start by working on the fills for this one. The first thing we'll do is go inside the face fill precomp. Bear in mind that I duplicated my comps again to have a third folder for this look, and we'll go inside our face precomp. We'll go to the Face layer and add an effect that is a ...”
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Course summary for: Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects
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Santiago Avila
A course by Santiago Avila
Santiago Avila is an Argentinian motion and graphic designer based in London. He has been working in motion graphics and animation for over a decade, both in-house for companies and as a freelancer. He has contributed to projects that range from film, broadcast, music live visuals, and digital content. This has given him the opportunity to experiment with 2D and 3D animation for both graphic and character-driven storytelling.
He has worked for clients such as Nike, Disney, Coca-Cola, Spotify, Netflix, MTV, Condé Nast, Dell, the History Channel, FOX, ASICS, and BFI. Santiago has also collaborated with artists like Kylie Minogue, Disclosure, London Grammar and Anne-Marie.
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