Lessons: 7Length: 34 minutes
Bring your digital paintings to life using these animation techniques in Adobe After Effects!
In this course, Jonathan Lam will walk you step by step through the process of adding stunning and eye-catching animations to your scene. Using a painting by professional digital artist Henrik Evensen, you'll learn how to add and connect the different natural elements, such as wind, moving grass, and clouds, from scratch. You’ll also learn how to match the final keyframe with the first, so that the whole animation can be seamlessly looped.
These techniques are extremely flexible and can be easily applied to your own digital paintings!
This course is perfect for artists and designers, whether you're experienced or new to After Effects. By the end of the course, you’ll have a better understanding of the tools you need to animate a painting in Adobe After Effects.
See the the full animation in action on YouTube.
After Effects for Beginners
Learn how to use After Effects in our hands-on free course. You’ll start at the absolute beginning and work quickly through these After Effects tutorials into more exciting techniques.
1.Introduction
1.1Welcome to the Course00:45
2.How to Prepare Your Digital Painting
2.1Prepare Your Painting in Adobe Photoshop04:02
3.How to Animate a Painting in Adobe After Effects
3.1How to Animate Grass09:50
3.2How to Animate Sunlight03:34
3.3How to Animate Atmospheric Particles09:27
3.4How to Animate the Sky and Clouds03:49
3.5How to Add a Music Track02:39
