After Effects: Compositing Animation from Animate CC

Take your Adobe Animate CC animations to the next level with After Effects compositing and special effects.

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.

Introduction

• Supercharge your animation with After Effects

1. Assembling the Scene

• Overview of the interface
• Exporting from Flash/Animate CC
• Importing Animate CC scenes into compositions
• Scale, rotation, position, and opacity
• Duplicating compositions and controlling layers
• Adding audio

2. Filters and Effects

• Nesting compositions
• Adjusting colors and tone
• Lightning
• Creating masks and feathered edges
• Fractal fog and clouds
• Motion and depth blur
• Depth/Blur maps
• Child-parent layers
• Distort tool
• Camera wiggle
• Applying Glow
• Applying film grain

3. 3D Scenes

• Assembling a 3D environment
• Importing characters
• Adding lights and shadows
• Animating cameras
• Depth of field
• Puppet tool

4. Final Touches

• Updating assets
• Editing
• Rendering
• Collecting files

Conclusion

• Next steps

Introduction

• Supercharge your animation with After Effects

1. Assembling the Scene

• Overview of the interface
• Exporting from Flash/Animate CC
• Importing Animate CC scenes into compositions
• Scale, rotation, position, and opacity
• Duplicating compositions and controlling layers
• Adding audio

2. Filters and Effects

• Nesting compositions
• Adjusting colors and tone
• Lightning
• Creating masks and feathered edges
• Fractal fog and clouds
• Motion and depth blur
• Depth/Blur maps
• Child-parent layers
• Distort tool
• Camera wiggle
• Applying Glow
• Applying film grain

3. 3D Scenes

• Assembling a 3D environment
• Importing characters
• Adding lights and shadows
• Animating cameras
• Depth of field
• Puppet tool

4. Final Touches

• Updating assets
• Editing
• Rendering
• Collecting files

Conclusion

• Next steps