How I use After Effects for my Animation Work

Compositing is the process of putting background, characters, and other animations on top of it while adding other post processing effects. I share some quick tips that I personally use when compositing my animation work. 00:00 Intro 00:59 Exporting Animation 01:51 Creating your composition window in AE 02:20 Importing Files into AE 02:45 Place imported footage into composition 03:16 Intrpret footage (Change FPS and add loops) 03:48 Keying and Animating transformation Properties 04:22 Importing other assets 05:01 Intro to Layer Styles (Inner shadow, Rim Light effects) 06:29 Intro to pre composing 08:07 Improvising Glow FX 08:34 Secondary Character Lighting FX 08:50 Preserving Transparency Options (Clipping to silhuoette) 09:45 ADJUSTMENT LAYERS 11:22 Experiment with Other effects 11:54 Visual Mixing and leveling 12:42 Other precomp ideas 13:43 Adjustment layer (glow effect) 14:02 Solid Shapes Improvised Vignette 15:39 Solid Shape (light effect) 15:56 Finishing Touches and Final The Complete Introduction to 2D Animation Buy the complete introduction to 2D animation tutorial/video package: Main Website: Twitter: Instagram: Online Store/Tutorials: Patreon Account: Equipment I use: Drawing Tablet: Wacom Cintiq 22HD: Software I use: Animation - TVPAINT Animation - Adobe Flash/Animate CC, ToonBoom Compositing - After Effects Painting and Illustration - Photoshop Video Editing - Premiere 3D - BLENDER
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