How to Animate Still Images with After Effects and Photoshop

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0:00 Intro
0:54 Photoshop
2:36 After Effects

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[eainmatkoe]

one of the best & easiest tutorial to follow along and understand which is what, thanks! I will make sure to watch and learn more from you.

[kingchinnoyidarmy]

That's cool af and I want to trial it with some of my composites. Would love to see another version like this going through a different angle

[ZMB-onub]

You just helped my intro to Premiere midterm really pop. Thanks! Super helpful and concise.

[ahmedsuleiman]

Great work, Dansky. Few tips learned.

[courtcrea.]

This is still epic. Such a timeless tutorial! Love you Dansky!

[hazrddesign]

At 4:48 You don't need to switch back to 1 View, you just need to reselect the window that has the composition that you would like to preview, aka the right screen.

[noah]

This completely leveled up my animated statics! Thank you!!

[majnuker]

Me and a friend are planning to make a game and I probably have to learn how to do all this. Even just calling out each specific little thing you're doing is tremendous. Excellent video!

[brianmurray]

Make sure to fade out any fog layers before they pass the camera so they won't cut out.

[jawjawofamilaran]

Simple yet very helpful tutorial. Thanks!

[mohgraph]

That was a simple but not easy piece of art, good stuff 😂

[trishmccallister]

Great tutorial...and your footage is insanely sharp!

[johnleighdesigns]

great to see this - I wasnt expecting the animation of the individual layers - it looked like the parenting the camera to the null wasnt used or did i miss something and what would advantage be to animate each layer instead of the camera itself im wondering if anyone has some thoughts?

[keshavvig]

Man can create a movie from a photo. Protect this man at any cost.

[thetest]

1:51 Wow, i didn't know the cmd + A and align tools.. Thanks!

[Nickyjoe]

While in 2 view's are you able to set your front perspective to "active camera" that could be the problem you are facing.

[YoreHistory]

Do you have the AEP file from After Effects as well? Great video as I am always looking for ways to improve my history videos! Cheers.

[SamiKhan_]

Cool!
How did you get the fiery sword effect?

[abusadiq]

I normally would save the still images as a psd file and import into after effects and everything is layered and arrange correctly, this way any changes made in photoshop will be updated in Ae.

[phunkyfill]

When setting the keyframes for the z value (distance from the camera, which controls the speed of zoom), was it: the closer the layers, the faster they shift?