Hellooo! I’m Russ, today we’re going to make some hand drawn animation without drawing a single line! And for this we’ll be using Adobe After Effects.

I’m a Freelance Animator and Director based in Brighton UK. I’ve worked professionally for over 10 years in animation producing VFX, motion design, 2D and 3D character animation.

I get asked quite often to animate things in Adobe After Effects to make it look drawn. Whether that’s because it needs to sit beside actual drawn animation or because there’s no time to do it ‘properly’, either way it’s super useful to know how to get an effective drawn effect.

This class will be great for both hand drawn animators needing to add some extra elements to their main work, or for after effects animators to work along side your traditional colleagues

I’ll be taking you through step by step so this class should be suitable for beginners or if you’re fairly new to Adobe After Effects.

We will be covering:

Illustration styles that work well for Adobe After Effects animation, whether its coming from illustrator, photoshop or maybe even a real life drawing..
Prepping and importing those illustrations into After Effects.
We’ll be looking at rebuilding the illustrations inside After Affects so that they’re easier to animate.
Then I’ll take you through the main methods that I use to recreate a wide variety of drawn effects.
And finally a few animation techniques that will help tie it all together
There’ll be tons of tips and examples along the way

I hope that once you have completed this course you’ll have the knowledge of not only how to make your Adobe After Effects animation look drawn but which effects are the right ones to use for different situations.

Acknowledgements

Artist of Sunny Illustration - Dorothy Siemens

Chronemics by Animade

Maybe Trailer by Chris Haughton and Oh Studio

Featured artists

Tess Smith-Roberts

Nina Doevendans

Allround Creative, based in Antwerp

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