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Animate Your Art! Motion Graphics with After Effects and Photoshop

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About Animate Your Art! Motion Graphics with After Effects and Photoshop

Introduction

Cutting Up the Image in Photoshop

After Effects UI & Workflow

Project Organization

Importing Photoshop File into After Effects

Graph Editor Basics

Parenting & Rigging

Wave Warp Effect

Puppet Pin Tool

Mesh Warp Effect

Displacement Map Effect - Part 1

Displacement Map Effect - Part 2

Particles: How to Create Fire Magic - Part 1

Particles: How to Create Fire Magic - Part 2

Particles: How to Create Fire Magic - Part 3

Compositing: Overlaying Footage

Color Grading

Rendering Your Animation

Outro

What You Will Learn?

  • Do you want to learn how to bring images to life through animation? Then look no further! In this course, I will show you how to create, edit, and export your first animation in Adobe After Effects using advanced tools that will add a whole new dimension to any 2D image..
  • If you are interested in 2D animation, creating motion comics, and learning After Effects to create short scenes, then this course is for you! This method is used in the film and game industry by companies such as Blizzard Entertainment, Netflix, and Wizards of the Coast..
  • First, we will go over how to prepare the image for animation using Adobe Photoshop by properly slicing your image into separate layers..
  • I will then get into the meat of the course by teaching you step by step how to animate in After Effects for the purpose of animating 2D images..
  • Digital illustration skills are a plus, but not required. .
  • A basic understanding of Photoshop is required..