Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects
Folder Organizing and File Setup 1
A course by Ana Pérez López, Illustrator and Animation Director
About the video: Folder Organizing and File Setup 1
Overview
“Being organized in Adobe After Effects is extremely important. It's one of those programs where all the media has to be connected and if you change a name, chaos is upon you! In this lesson, I will discuss the best practices and go through the folder that I’ve created. Following my guidance, you will create your files and import your drawings. I will show you how to pack your project so that you can collaborate with other people. This step is so important that I will revisit it later!”
In this video lesson Ana Pérez López addresses the topic: Folder Organizing and File Setup 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects. Learn to how play with lines, shapes, and perspective to create isometric illustrations in Adobe Illustrator and bring them to life with After Effects.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Folder Organizing and File Setup In this lesson, we'll talk about how to organise your project file. As I said before, After Effects can very easily become a chaotic program if you don't name everything properly and have everything in an organised way. One of the most important things to have is a footage folder. In that footage folder, we'll have all the things we'll animate. We'll keep a clean mindset when starting our project in After Effects. We'll set a composition with our footage folder and we'll make sure that we know what we're doing also in After Effects. I want to remind you th...”
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Course summary for: Isometric Animation with Illustrator and After Effects
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3D & Animation, Illustration -
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Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
2D Animation, Animation, Digital Illustration, Vector Illustration
Ana Pérez López
A course by Ana Pérez López
Madrid native Ana Pérez López is a digital illustrator and animator based in London. As a restless spirit, she’s changed career paths and countries multiple times, but has always been driven by storytelling. She started as a journalist in Chile and went on to study animation in California before landing in the UK. Her illustration style is characterized by expressive color palettes, playful shapes, and a creative use of perspective that adds a touch of surrealism to her art.
Since switching from written to visual narratives, Ana has worked with clients like Culture Trip, Spotify, Vimeo, Samsung, UN Women, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and The Economist. Her films have been featured at festivals such as SXSW and have earned her several awards, including a Young Guns in 2020 and an Emmy for her collaboration on an animated short for CNN.
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