Animated Illustrations with After Effects for Social Media
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Learn animation techniques to bring your vector illustrations to life using After Effects and discover how to stand out on social media
Want to animate your illustrations for social media? In this online course, see how to do just that with Carlos Alegría, animation director, illustrator, and art director at Los Angeles motion graphics studio Bien.
Learn the basics of animated illustration and the entire production process, from analyzing the brief to posting your piece on social media. Carlos teaches you the ins and outs of Adobe Illustrator and how to animate using different techniques with After Effects to get eye-catching results.
Carlos Alegría starts the course by telling you a bit about himself and his career as an illustrator and animator, including his sources of inspiration, his conceptual process, and workflow. He also gives some useful tips about the creative industry.
Review the basics of animated illustration. After analyzing and interpreting a client’s brief, put together a visual mood board to use as a guide for your final project.
Create a variety of sketches, digitally or on paper, to explore various concepts. Then, develop the final artwork in Illustrator, considering all the animation’s different needs.
Import your artwork into After Effects and learn how to animate it with basic tools, such as Shape Layers. Look at how to arrange the elements to generate a hypnotizing infinite loop. Then, work on the final details such as textures and other effects.
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