2D Animations: Make Your Character Illustrations Move

Overview

“Adding movement to the surrounding elements will enhance the animation and give it another level of depth. That is why I will animate the flowers and other specific details of the illustration.”

In this video lesson Nuria Boj addresses the topic: After Effects: Animating Flowers and Details 1, 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

“ After Effects Animating Flowers and Details In this lesson, I'd like to animate the flower and particles of my composition inside After Effects as well as implement some casting shadows that will add dimension to my composition. There are other animations that we can also incorporate into our composition such as animating the elements that surround our character. Animating those elements will add another layer of complexity but also give a lot of depth to our looping animation. The main flower the character is holding is affected by the main movement of the character as well as by the arm...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (27)
• 1377 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