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

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Equipment I use:

Software I use:
Animation - TVPAINT
Animation - Adobe Flash/Animate CC, ToonBoom
Compositing - After Effects
Painting and Illustration - Photoshop
Video Editing - Premiere
3D - BLENDER

[Keetz]

i had NO idea you could loop png sequences through the "interpret footage" window, you've saved my life

[agmlls]

I'm in an After Effects college course and this one video has been infinitely more helpful than anything else I've learned so far. Thank you SO much, I greatly look forward to the next installment.

[KeyanCarlile]

I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS EARLIER TODAY WHOOOOAH
Okay calm down everyone

[NostalgiaArtist]

Considering I'm about to build a pc that can actually handle video editing this Friday, this is excellent timing

[a.b.cooper]

I am only now discovering that "preserve transparency" box, and that could've saved me soooo much time on past projects. Thank you so much for saving my future project!

[Blink-utuh]

I rarely comment but I have to say that this is the best tutorial by far for using After Effects to add VFX to an animation. Literally no other tutorial goes in depth about the entire process

[CondePablo]

in tvpaint, you can export "layer structure" (as psd sequence), and have the layer structure on after effects.
about the frame rate. you can define the fps after effects interpretates the sequences. in "edit - preferences"

[Lukimani]

Right when I'm about to finish my first short animation, Bless :)

[neverforever]

This is probably the best and most informative compositing lesson I've found on YouTube. I have been looking for good guides on creating a 2d animation compose for a long time, but I can't find anything so useful and compressed in the public domain.

[Motion-Graphics-Man]

Great examples. Love your work. For those that may not know, You can set up your preferred interpretation in the preferences, so you don't have to do it on each import. Also you can double click the ellipse tool and it will fill the frame automatically.

[caroodraws]

You know what After Effects needs?
FOLDERS

[velarixart]

AAAA thank you! I remember looking to see if this video existing on your channel 😄

[yehezkielferdin]

This is what I'm searching for for years. Ultimate guide for animation compositing. Thank you very much for sharing this for free!

[poloppy]

Genuinely one of the most helpful tutorials I’ve seen! Thank you so much! That lighting trick with the layer effects is super handy!

[greenpuffle]

Perfect timing! This will be handy for a job I'm currently working on.

[Nick-wztz]

YES !! New video from the Master 😭♥️✨✨✨✨

[jade]

This is the only compositing tutorial I've watched that actually makes sense 😭

[einvoid]

This is incredibly useful and impressive, such creative solutions, thank you for sharing.

[boshrasajirati]

you gave whole information that is years of experience and hard working and knowledge
enough to put it in 2 basic and advanced courses and you gave it all in a video and free! I never forget this because always compositing was a great challenge for me and you are my savior
thank you, thank you!

[nikki_kchhun]

I adore your works and you giving time to teach us this. My animation teacher never went to depth with After effects. Its more you do a final project and she gets credit for " Helping Producing" when she never guide me on anything..