2D Composition In Photoshop & Animation In After Effects

A powerful new workflow between Creating a 2D composition in photoshop and animating your artwork in after effects.

What you'll learn
Learn a powerful new workflow between Creating a 2D composition in photoshop and animating your artwork in after effects.
By the end of this course, you'll know how to use photoshop to create a matte painting of your composition, how to quickly mask images in Photoshop, add color adjustments,add realistic painting to your image by using Clone Stamp tool, How to use different brushes and how to animate a bird in after effects, you will learn the secret of repeating an animate . how to work with layers inside the after effects . Moving a camera to bring the photo to life . animating the cloud and creating a realistic Snow would be so easy for you after watching this course . Add a dreamy look to our final composition and at the end you will learn how to Select, Create and Mix a Soundtrack to your final animation .
Requirements
This course is assuming you have intermediate experience in photoshop and after effects , however we take a step by step approach so you can follow along. If you have never used photoshop or After Effects I strongly recommend that take a beginner course to get more familiar with photoshop and after effects tools first then would be a time to watch this course.
Description
In this course you will learn a powerful new workflow between Creating a 2D composition in photoshop and animating your artwork in after effects.
We take a first lesson to explain the process of creating a matte painting of your composition in photoshop then we jump right into creating our project, by learning how to use photoshop projects in after effects , we learn ways to position our layers, Animating a flying bird , using our camera for animation and working with particles to create a realistic Snow from the scratch and finally rendering our project in after effects also for bonuses we will show you how to work with adobe audition and adobe premiere pro to edit and Mix a very Cool soundtrack for our project to bring our animation to life .
This course is full of helpful tool for getting some of the toughest part of the photoshop and after effects working easy for you, issues like , animating a bird wings, camera movement, working with particles are explained in depth so you can let your creativity flow.
This course is assuming you have intermediate experience in photoshop and after effects , however we take a step by step approach so you can follow along. If you have never used photoshop or after effects and you are interested to animate your artworks this course will show you how to start and where to focus on. by the end of this course you have a good knowledge of creating and animating your projects.

Overview

Section 1: Creating Photo-Composition in Photoshop

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Setting up

Lecture 3 Painting the Background

Lecture 4 Painting the Mountain with Clouds

Lecture 5 Adding Haze and Light to the background

Lecture 6 Adding haze to the Mountain

Lecture 7 Composite the Mountain into the Cloud

Lecture 8 Working on Castle and Color balance

Lecture 9 Composition

Lecture 10 Realistic Shadow

Lecture 11 Adding Clouds

Lecture 12 Adding the Mountain and Working on the Moon

Lecture 13 Masking the Sky

Lecture 14 Mountain and Adding the Climber

Lecture 15 Blending in The Climber and Mountain

Lecture 16 Level Adjusments and Color Balance

Lecture 17 Adding the lake

Lecture 18 Fixing the reflection

Lecture 19 Adding the trees

Lecture 20 Seperating Eagle Wings for Animation

Lecture 21 Adding the Final Clouds

Section 2: Animating Our Composition in After Effects

Lecture 22 Importing the project from photoshop to after effects

Lecture 23 Z- Position

Lecture 24 Animating Eagle's Wing

Lecture 25 Right Wing

Lecture 26 Secret of Repeating an Animation

Lecture 27 Adding Camera to the Scene

Lecture 28 Animating the Clouds

Lecture 29 Camera Movement

Lecture 30 Rotating the Eagle

Lecture 31 Custom View

Lecture 32 Creating Snow part 1

Lecture 33 Creating Snow part 2

Lecture 34 Final Touch - Dreamy Look

Lecture 35 Rendering in After Effects

Section 3: Creating Soundtrack in Adobe Audition and Premiere Pro

Lecture 36 Creating Soundtrack for our Animation

This Course is for anyone who like to learn the composition in the photoshop and learn how to easily animate a 2D photo in after effects. It is for someone who has always wanted to learn an easy way to add motion to his/her graphics . ,This Course is not a course to teaching you photoshop or After Effects tools, the goal is to learn how to do photo- composition in photoshop or matte painting and learn how to easily animate the layers (clouds, bird ) and creating particles in after effects.