Adobe Animate

I’m so happy I finally got to truly understand Adobe Animate and After Effects!
On Tuesday’s classes, Christina and Shaun taught us how to use these softwares.

I created the character bellow based on illustrator Pencil Bandit (https://www.instagram.com/pencilbandit).

After Effects

For the first After Effects exercise, I created the following mood board:

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The mood board was created based on the series ‘Steven Universe’. I looked for illustrations/ pictures of warm sunsets and tropical scenery.

For sound design, I wanted to create depth. I put together 4 different sound layers of the engine sound, birds, wind and a horn in the background.

For the second After Effects exercise, we were instructed to create a short animation of a character struggling to hang on to an object/ pull theirselves from the object. I created the following character struggling to do pull ups at the gym.

I started by creating the character. Posteriorly, I followed Shaun’s steps to create this exercise. I actually found it quite easy to complete it! For some reason, when I used After Effects before I never got around to understand parenting and how different layer can connect.