The ability to animate artwork from Adobe Illustrator is key to creating beautifully designed animations. This lesson of the After Effects Fundamentals series, covers the ins and outs of preparing your Illustrator artwork, and then importing, making changes, and animating it in After Effects.
👀 Watch the After Effects Fundamentals playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGfHurvYEHhWWFIii-Mx0sJbylKAM0Dlh
In this video:
0:36 Prepare Illustrator Artwork
9:57 Save Illustrator File
10:29 Import Illustrator File into After Effects
13:49 Animate Illustrator Layers
16:23 Making Changes to AI Artwork
21:24 Convert to Shape Layer
23:07 Overlord
➡️ Check out the visual notes that accompany this video to help you quickly remember how to do something in After Effects: https://www.meganfriesth.com/AEfundamentals/illustrator
⬇️ Download a cheat sheet of After Effects keyboard shortcuts: https://animationexplained.gumroad.com/l/beginnerAEkeyboardshortcuts
➡️ Learn more about creating graphics in Adobe Illustrator to animate: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGfHurvYEHhXrIYXEZmzGhCVHk47u1ybC
➡️ Learn more about illustrating artwork in Adobe Illustrator and animating it in After Effects in my class, Create then Animate: https://www.meganfriesth.com/class/create
➡️ The Overlord After Effects extension I talk about at 23:07: https://battleaxe.co/?ref=animationexplained
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