2D Animations: Make Your Character Illustrations Move

Overview

“After showing you how to add fine line details with the ‘Pen Tool’, I will add colour to the blocked shapes. Finally, you will see how to export the whole so that you can work on the animation.”

In this video lesson Nuria Boj addresses the topic: Refining the Illustration 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: 2D Animations: Make Your Character Illustrations Move. Animate subtle movement in your character designs using After Effects and Procreate..

Partial transcription of the video

“ Refining the Illustration After taking some time to block out the shapes in Photoshop, this is how it's looking. As you can see, I have decided to continue blocking out the shapes using greyscale colours because I could see things more clearly. I've also added some outline details, which is absolutely optional. If you don't normally use it in your work, you don't need to use it here in this project, but I'll show you how I do it using the Pen tool in case you're interested and need to know how. I'll select the Move tool over here and I want to have Auto-Select, Layer on. I'll tap on the a...”

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Course summary for: 2D Animations: Make Your Character Illustrations Move

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (29)
• 1396 students
• 5 units
• 27 lessons (6h 8m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Procreate

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animation, Character Animation, Character Design, Digital Illustration