Animated Transitions with 2D Illustration & After Effects
Designing Transitions and Longer Formats
A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator
About the video: Designing Transitions and Longer Formats
Overview
“Now that you have a better sense of how to plan transitions at an early stage of the animation process, I'd like to show you how I use this approach in my projects. This includes the storyboard stage and longer-format animations.”
In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Designing Transitions and Longer Formats, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Transitions with 2D Illustration & After Effects. Create seamless and organic animated transitions from scratch by exploring color, shape, texture, pattern, and timing using both analog and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Designing Transitions and Longer Formats I hope you had fun doing these previous exercises. They're to get you on the way of thinking transition animation at an early stage. In this lesson, I'll show you how I use a similar approach as these exercises in my projects, how I create transitions in the storyboard stage, and how I plan transitions in longer and more complex projects. Now, I'll use one of my previous animations as an example. This project was an animated lesson on TED-Ed, called "How Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe?" written by Alex Hofeldt. If you like, you can watch...”
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Course summary for: Animated Transitions with 2D Illustration & After Effects
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2D Animation, Animation, Digital Illustration
Yukai Du
A course by Yukai Du
Yukai Du is a Chinese-born illustrator and animator based in London, UK. At just 15 years old, she began training at GuangZhou Academy of Fine Arts where she learned to work with acrylic and still life paintings, pencil drawings, and sculpture. From there, she went on to study animation at college, where her traditional art skills were put into practice. It was there that she discovered her passion for creating craft-like illustrations and animations, and she later moved to London to pursue a Master’s degree in those art forms.
After graduating, she worked at various studios in the UK including M-I-E and Bliink. Since then, as a freelancer, she has collaborated with well-known brands including The New Yorker, Spotify, The Guardian, MTV, Adobe, Apple, and WeTransfer. Her work has also been recognized by Adobe Design Awards, 3x3 International Illustration Awards, and more.
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