How to Animate a Still Image with After Effects and Photoshop | Tutorial

#metroiddread #motiongraphics #aftereffects In this episode we use Adobe Photoshop & After Effects to animate a piece of key art. We’re using some key art from Metroid Dread, but you can use any still image you want. First in Photoshop we plan out our motion, then use various tools like the patch tool, lasso tool, pen tool, clone stamp tool and transform tools to turn that still image into a series of editable layers. Finally we jump into After Effects to animate those layers and add various vfx to enhance the original motion graphics/ Animating images in After Effects. Let’s get to it. 00:00 Intro 00:22 Episode Overview 01:00 Step One: Planning 03:25 Step Two: Prepping 06:32 The Patch Tool 08:35 Removing the Head & Clone Stamp Tool 15:59 Separating the Arm & Other Techniques 21:45 Step Three: Animating 24:49 Keyframe Animation 41:00 Animating the Visor 45:08 Animating the Arm Cannon 48:00 Animating the Particles (CC Particle World) 52:37 Ad