Animation of a simple bird in After Effects

1. 1.Intro: Hi, Welcome to my class how to create an animation of a simple bird in After Effects. My name is Betsy. Earliest video. In this class, we will learn how to sketch in Procreate. Then you will learn how to create a simple flat animation illustration using vector Nader Pro or illustrator. After that, we're going to get animal or bird come to life by using Adobe After Effects. I will show you the basics and necessary steps to let the bird fly. By the end of this class, you have learned to create a simple vector-based animation. This class is perfect for designers, illustrators, or anyone else looking to have some fun creating simple animation. So sign up and start creating. 2. 2.Sketch: Thanks for joining my class. Let's get started. To make an illustration comes to life. You have to sketch it first. Create a sketch if a bird or any order at a molecule wish to animate, I'm using Procreate for sketching, but pencil on paper is still a valid way to sketch. Just create a snap of your final sketch and tune in again. Broke rate is a sketching app for iPad Pro. I'm using a technical brush and tap on the brush. You see the brush options. You can customize your brush as you like. I'm going to set the streamline to max. This gifts smooth, elegant lines which are useful for vector images. Join along or create your own animal. My bird is going to be inspired by my reference of a photo of a circle. 3. 3.Vectorizing sketch: Let's vectorize are drawing. I'm using vector Nader pro, a free app for the iPad Pro, very similar to Adobe Illustrator. Let's fill in the file size than 80 by 1080. Since this is vector, it doesn't really matter what size you are using because to find the outcome will be infinitely scalable. The school to first layer background and fill it with a light blue. There you go. Now, import your sketch into the airport art board is the area where you can draw. Let's put a transparency and down. Create a new layer, name it. Draw each shape individually with the pen tool. We got ourselves a booth. Let's open up Adobe Illustrator and divide two layers into one layer. For Adobe After Effects. Soar to elements of hair, brown, eyes, body, belly. A big into separate layers as I'm doing right now. To bear the illustration is done. Now, let's move on to After Effects. To animate the birds. 4. 4.Animation: Let's animate import as composition retain layer sets, go to competition, create a new composition, COVID bird flying, and set the composition to 1920 by 1080. Locked duration. You copy and paste the layers of the odor competitions into this one. When else selected click left mouse, Create, create Shapes from Vector Layer, delete it illustrator layers. Now we're going to relocate the layer locations on each campus. Go to Layer, New Layer, know Object, rename it to relocate, parent the layers to relocate there and make all layers treaty. It's a treaty cube icon. On the left you will find the project files and above the information of the canvas, competition with the dimensions, which is this area. This area are the layers were older critics are placed. And this is the timeline for reset the graphics emotion. This is alignment option. And here you can find Effects and Presets. Go to Window to add options. The options that are visible are marked with the feet. For example, tools are here located underneath the screen. You can select which viewpoint you want to display. You're going to work in very simple 3D. In order to see what we do. We can now go to custom view one to see an angle version of the layer in a currently location. Now we're going to use top few coded a layer. Relocate, open the layer, change position and click on the right value, drag it to the left or the right to see the layers. We are set to five on a pixel. Now, unlike the background layer, go to reelect gate. Again, I said it to 400 pixels are linked the feet layer above the background, set the belly layer to tree nineties and link the layer. Go to relocate, set it to treat AT, and link the layer belly. When I brown hair as well. Go to relocate, delete the layer we have now located. All the layers. Go to wing layer, go to rotate 90 degree and set the position so that the wing is touching the front line from the top end. Now, I quickly fix my drawing ring so that the pet is attached properly to the body. Align it with the body. Back to wing layer, set the position to the body. Go to retake, set it 264, and click the crystal symbol. Move the frames in its own lane. Set. De Jian to 0. Make it easy to click on the crystal with CMD, hold on and type in a timeline loop out. This will repeat demotion we just created. Just moved the last query frame a bit until you are satisfied with the movement. And there we have a moving. Let's go to the eye of the bird. Create a new shape layer, go to a new menu Layer, New Layer, Shape Layer. Go it, I must activate treated. Go to top view. Align the layer to the body line slightly above the body. So it's a cover for the layer underneath. Create an eyelid shape. Make it white. Go-to in the layer panel. Insert a keyframe, then move from frame and go into the Canvas. Click on the middle anchor point and drag it down. Continue doing this by moving frames in the timeline until the eye is closed. Keyframes and duplicate them after the last screen of keyframe. Left mouse, click ratios and fall and you create a living I, optional at music. Let's animate to click on the anchor point that we were going to rotate tool and drag it to the left side of the feet. Then go to rotate. Create a keyframe 0 and a few frames fritter to pixel. Do the same in group two. B frames. Easy, Ease. Then up the script, loop out ping-pong. First, name, all the layers due to Betty and go to belly layer. Go a bit down, create a keyframe, go a few bits forward. Create a new keyframe, and position the belly of a script. Seem the Plus click on the clock. Go to the hair layer, drag the anchor point would end up there. Then rotate said, I'm huge, move a few frames forward. Rotate, repeat the process until the end of the timeline. Starting in which same keyframe. For behalf of flying birds. 5. 5. shadow: Let's animate the shadow. Go to layer, new layer, shape layer, and then use the circle to create an oval form. A blur on it with presets. Effects and Presets. Scale to shape. More for free frames forward and skill to shape again. Then go to Opacity. At Fuller, behalf of flying birds.