Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects
Playing with Color 1
A course by Santiago Avila , Graphic and Motion Designer
About the video: Playing with Color 1
Overview
“Let's bring even more life to the three looks by coloring the object and the background. I will model the use of different types of effects to do so, such as simple tints. I will also show you how to delve into more interesting and dynamic color mappings using the Colorama effect.”
In this video lesson Santiago Avila addresses the topic: Playing with Color 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
“ Playing with Color In this lesson, we'll add more character to our animations through the addition of colour to our comps. This will add an extra layer of expressiveness to our clips. We'll use both simple tints and more complex Colorama effects for richer tonal transitions. As these looks have an organic feeling to them, it felt like an interesting complement to play around with intense and digital colours to add a bit more contrast. Let's start by working on the Face Fill layer. We already have a Colorama added to it. Colorama takes the black to white values of our layer and maps differ...”
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Course summary for: Design and Animation of Playful Supercuts in After Effects
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2D Animation, Animation, Motion Graphics

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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