After Effects Compositing Animation from Animate CC

On September 26, 2018

Release date:2018, August 20

Duration:02 h 59 m

Author:Dermot O' Connor

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Are you looking to add something extra to your Animate CC projects? After Effects offers camera motion; special effects such as fractal fog, motion blur, and glow; and 3D environments that you can’t achieve in vector-based programs like Animate alone. This course reviews the Animate to After Effects compositing pipeline, starting with importing Animate scenes into layered AE compositions. Instructor Dermot O’ Connor shows how to control the individual layers and add filters and effects to achieve just the look you want. He covers lighting and tone adjustments as well as atmospheric effects, distortion, and camera animation. Then he shows how to quickly assemble a 3D environment and import your Animate characters into the scene. Finally, Dermot explains how to render your composition and collect the final assets for archival and sharing.

Topics include:
Importing Animate scenes in After Effects comps
Duplicating comps
Nesting comps
Adjusting colors and lighting
Creating masks
Adding special effects: fog, motion blur, distortion, glow, and more
Creating 3D environments
Animating cameras in a 3D scene
Rendering and finalizing the After Effects project

Table of Contents

Introduction
Supercharge your animation with After Effects 39s
1. Assembling the Scene
Overview of the interface 3m 44s
Exporting from Flash/Animate CC 5m 14s
Importing Animate CC scenes into compositions 6m 3s
Scale, rotation, position, and opacity 12m 14s
Duplicating compositions and controlling layers 6m 7s
Adding audio 1m 10s
2. Filters and Effects Nesting compositions 5m 45s
Adjusting colors and tone 5m 14s
Lightning 7m 18s
Creating masks and feathered edges 5m 48s
Fractal fog and clouds 8m 30s
Motion and depth blur 5m 9s
Depth/Blur maps 5m 35s
Child-parent layers 3m 53s
Distort tool 10m 7s
Camera wiggle 3m 42s
Applying Glow 5m 15s
Applying film grain 4m 8s
3. 3D Scenes
Assembling a 3D environment 12m 9s
Importing characters 10m 45s
Adding lights and shadows 8m 14s
Animating cameras 8m 59s
Depth of field 6m 13s
Puppet tool 13m 46s
4. Final Touches
Updating assets 3m 37s
Editing 4m Rendering 2m 25s
Collecting files 2m 58s
Conclusion Next steps 1m 18s