Animating Artwork from Adobe Illustrator in After Effects - AE Fundamentals
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ธ.ค. 2022
- 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.
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: www.meganfriesth.com/AEfundam...
➡️ Learn more about illustrating artwork in Adobe Illustrator and animating it in After Effects in my class, Create then Animate: www.meganfriesth.com/class/cr...
➡️ The Overlord After Effects extension I talk about at 23:07: battleaxe.co/?ref=animationex...
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Thank you for pointing out common mistakes before doing it the right way. I was really confused that I didn't even know where to begin my questions, but now it's all clear. I think you're a really great tutor who's not only skilled, but also empathetic & understanding of their students.
Thank you! I appreciate that ☺
EVERYTHING I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR IN ONE VIDEO THANK YOU SO MUCH
Yay! I’m glad you found it helpful!
I am only 10 minutes into the video and it has been the MOST helpful explanation to a whole set of other videos to include the Adobe ones. Thank youuuuuu and now, I will continue watching. ...SO helpful!!!
Thank you! That’s great to hear 😊
great video.. learned a lot
you have an amazing way of explaining things. the wrong examples helps understand exactly where we are going wrong. one of the best tutorials i have ever seen ❤
Thank you! 😀
So systematic ✅5 minutes into the video and I wanna say thank you❤. Sincerely, a video editor from Kenya
Glad you found it helpful!
You have explained each thing very properly.. Thanks
I will definitely check out your other videos!! The instructions you give are perfect, not too much detail, but not too little so your not lost. I find most video are too fast and don't explain enough or go into so much detail I loose interest and move on. Thanks!
Thanks! I'm happy to hear that!
Hi, I'm a Brazilian editor and this video helped me a lot, thank you 🧠🙏
Glad it helped!
a lot of thanks for making and sharin your video!!
You’re welcome!
i like the way you explain plus occasionally previewing the finished product, with the animation, of course:) reminding me what the actual finished product is really like. Thanks..and i like your smile too!
Thanks!
such a cool tutorial, the voice is smoothing like a butter with extra cheese
Thanks so much for revealing this workflow! Very informative and simple. And its just crazy how AI and AE are not working back and forth correctly and intuitive. Adobe has something to do with it.
Thank you for posting this! Even though I’ve been using AE for awhile, I even bought Overlord to work back and forth between Ai and AE.
I’m so glad I stumbled upon your channel, you help me understand how AE better.
That’s great to hear! I’m glad you found this helpful 😀
Really good explanation. My goal is to create a diagram in Illustrator and animate paths etc. in After Effects. This video has given me confidence to have a go now.
Thanks, that's great to hear! Good luck with your project!
Thanx
Fabulously done! This has saved me hours of work. Thank you so much!!
Glad to hear it! 😀
this video is what i was looking for, complete step by step approach. Great work :)
Thank you 😀
Thank you !
Thanks!!
Your tutorials are amazing!
Thank you!
Great tutorial! Really nice explaining. Thanks a lot! :)
That’s so good to hear! Thanks!
Great video, you explain things beautifully. thanks for creating this content for all us noobs out there :)
Thank you.
You are the best!
the way of explanation is awsm🔥
Thank you!
Wonderfully explained. Surprised that these videos don't have enough views/likes.
Thanks!
Thank you Megan ,This was Awesome ,The best After effects course on YT🙏🙏🙏
Hello! I’m really glad I found your videos!!! ❤️ I love it! Is it possible to do the same video but for preparing a character for animation on AI to AE..with the rounds on every single joints..Probably I am talking about the Rigging preparation. Thanks a lot in advance! 🙈🙈❤️
Yes, great suggestion! That's definitely on my list of tutorials to make.
This is incredibly helpful. Thanks for posting! Blows my mind that Illustrator and AE work so poorly with each other.
Glad it was helpful! Yeah, you’d think something like Overlord would be built into Illustrator and After Effects by now!
LIFESAVER 😢😊
Thank you. I wish my trainer had taught this. I wouldn't have wasted time on my project. I eventually found out, my mistake, but wasted too much time.
Glad this helped!
this is very helpful. continue sharing your amazing and helpful videos. 💪
Thanks! 😀
@@animation-explained you're welcome. 👌
@Key Designer sorry, I don't actually share this file anywhere because I think it would be better practice to create your own artwork in Illustrator, even if you just create something with basic shapes.
Wow, what a really fantasticly clear tutorial of how to do this. Top class, LIKED AND SUBBED. Thank you so much, keep up the great work.
Oh, Curiosity, what software tools are you using for you video creation - can you share.
Thank you again.
I mean for this youtube video recording.
@@AidanJoyce Thank you! :)
I use Screenflow to record my computer screen for the tutorial and do some basic editing within Screenflow. Then, I edit everything together in Premiere Pro (talking head footage, title cards/graphics from After Effects, music, etc.)
Hi Megan,
Thank you for these informative videos.
My issue is, after importing a file from illustrator, the duration becomes very very short.
Please what could be the issue?
You're welcome 😀 To fix that issue, go to Composition in the top menu bar, then Composition Settings. Change the duration to however long you want the comp to be. Then select all your layers and drag the ends to fill the timeline.
@@animation-explained Thanks a lot Megan. I just finished designing my first project using Ai and Ae
I have this assignment where I can choose to do frame by frame or vector animation. I love the clean style of vector, but seems like it takes triple the amount of time to animate compared to frame by frame.
I think it depends on what you're trying to animate (how complex it is, the frame rate, etc.) and your experience (including how good you are at drawing). For me, it would take much long to animate most things frame by frame!
@@animation-explained true, it takes me triple the amount because I rarely work with AI and AE, and I'm more familiar with TvPaint and Spine.
Hi Megan, your video is really helpful, I'd like to try the overlord plugin but the coupon link doesn't seem to apply any discount, even when I input the "explanimated" coupon code at checkout. Is it still valid by any chance ? many thanks
Unfortunately, my coupon code is no longer valid. Sorry about that!
Is there any plugin to create separate layer in AI for AE (because this process take too much time)
I don't know of one but maybe someone else does. There is a there's a plugin for AE called Motion 4 (by Mt. Mograph) that will allow you to name multiple layers at once. So if you have a bunch of layers that are all the same thing, and you want to name and number them, for example "line 1", "line 2", "line 3", etc. you can do that easily with Motion 4.
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