Animated Transitions with 2D Illustration & After Effects
Analysing Scenes and Exploring Styles 2
A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator
About the video: Analysing Scenes and Exploring Styles 2
Overview
“I will now focus on volume. How big are the elements going to be? How thick will the lines be? I will go back to the three thumbnails I have and add this information. Then, I will move on to deciding about shapes and refine the sketches.”
In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Analysing Scenes and Exploring Styles 2, 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
“ Analysing Scenes and Exploring Styles After you finish exploring directions, put them all in the same folder. In the next step, I'd like you to explore the volume. In the next step, I'd like to think about volume, like how big and what shape this will be and how thick each part would be. At this step, we'll have slightly more detail. We'll sketch out other shapes of the transition. Let's go back to our Direction 1. As you can see, it's linearly going down. I'll compare the blue shape of the girl here, and the mountain shape here and try to make sure of her because it's a different volume....”
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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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