Character illustration in Photoshop and Illustrator | Animation in After Effects | Tutorial
In this tutorial I will share with you my process of creating illustration from sketch in Photoshop and Illustrator and making an animation in After Effects.
You will see how to organize your illustrating process from the very first ideas of what you'd like to implement in your illustration. I'll show you how to push your idea by drawing the rough sketches until you understand what works for you the best in terms of composition and storytelling.
Then we'll move on with the unusual way of rendering an illustration: we trace all main shapes in Adobe Illustrator in b/w to save time and then export file to Photoshop, where you'll learn how to apply color on a fly. Literally seconds.
After this I will give you insights on how I apply textures to my illustrations. You will learn how to use Photoshop features to control tone, color and intensity of your textures.
All this recommendations will allow you to level up your illustrating skills, so I definitely recommend you to try out everything you'll see in this lesson.
The last chapter in this tutorial is animation in After Effects. It's not an easy one, but it will give you an overall picture of how you should prepare your illustration if you want to animate it, how to organize your workflow in After Effects to maintain control on your actions and how to animate each little part of an illustration until you get the final result.
People who will see After Effects workflow for the first time will get an understanding of how you bring still layers to life one by one, how layers start to interact and correspond to each other while the animation becomes more and more complicated. It might be overwhelming for newbies, but it is necessary to know what you are capable to do if you will practice animation. I find this tutorial motivating for anyone who wants to create animations.
For those who are not new to After Effects it will be extremely helpful to see my approach in animating this scene: you'll be able to use the finger, eye and flight animating tips in your own works, applying Alpha mattes and precomposed animations, which will give you more freedom to experiment and try out your own combinations.
Hope you'll have a lot of fun watching this one and find yourself motivated and ready to create your own animated illustrations!
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► VIDEO GUIDE:
0:00 Intro
00:17 drawing rough thumbnails and a clean sketch
01:41 tracing main shapes of illustration in Illustrator
02:17 planning your future steps in illustration
02:56 open file in Photoshop. How to quickly apply color
03:15 how to apply textures
04:48 preparing illustration for animation
06:39 After Effects animating workflow
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Music:
Carefree Melody by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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Bounce Ball by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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Italian Morning by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/
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