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Getting Started in After Effects for Illustrator Users

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn about Adobe After Effects, with a focus on familiar Illustrator features that you can leverage to put a design in motion.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • After Effects and Illustrator: A natural fit?
1. Familiar Elements: Illustrator and After Effects
  • Get started using AE like Illustrator
  • An AE project is made up of links
  • AE tools from Illustrator: Type and shapes
  • Introduce timing and motion to graphics
  • Fully-leverage Illustrator artwork in AE
2. Put Illustator Graphics in Motion
  • Set up Illustrator layers for motion
  • Revise Illustrator via Edit Original
  • Animate a vector pattern animation
  • Work with typography
  • Add music to motion
Conclusion
  • Go further with designs in motion

Taught by

Mark Christiansen

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