How to make Awesome Looking 2D FX Animations

In this video I show you how I create a 2D FX animation. I create a burning comet and also talk about the general approach to creating 2D FXs.

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What software am I using?
Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Cinema 4D (Currently with Redshift)

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[gwenno_dk]

The production value of this tutorial is absolutely insane!

[PureAnimationToolkit]

The shading and color palette are amazing!

[hyrulian]

easily one of the most underrated creators! love your work :D

[avimation]

I think this guy is not showing his full potential of how well he can shade objects.

[Wesley-pkde]

This is trully a masterpiece. Thank you so much for showing us your animation process.

[DanNoakes]

You add a lot of value and inspiration with your videos. I love how you incorporate different applications, C4D, PS, AE, in your work, and you keep applying all of it to the 2D hand drawn style. In a world where everyone is talking about AI, it is really refreshing to see you work, by hand, to create your art. Thanks again for your videos.

[tanishjain]

MAN! THE VIDEO EDITING OF THIS TUTORIAL ALONG WITH THE SHEER AWESOME VALUE IT PROVIDES INTERMS OF KNOWLEDGE IS INSANE! TRULY ONE OF THE BEST CHANNELS TO LEARN ANIMATION FOR FREE! KUDOS AND RESPECTS SIR!

[MikeTheMarine]

Massive talent. Your videos are as detailed and precise as your artwork and animation. Great job. 👏

[bigdamnhero]

This looks so cool

For anyone wondering how achieve the same thing in 3D with Blender instead of Cinema 4D here's how you do it

1. Make your geometry with simple shapes, sub-divide it enough times to get a dense mesh.
2. Create a looping noise texture in AE and export that as image sequence.
3. Apply displacement modifier to your mesh inside Blender, and click on the texture tab of displacement modifier.
4. That will allow you to select your image sequence and import. Set color space to "non color data" and check "cyclic and auto refresh" and you're done.

How to make looping noise texture inside Ae

1. Make a new comp, preferably a squre resoultion
2. Make a new Solid layer > set color to BLACK
3. Add a fractal noise effect on top
4. Set up its looks as u want, scale it up to 360
5. Click on "Evolution" and set it to 3 to animate it from start to finish
6. To loop the animation, click on cycle evolution under options and you're done!

This method can be used to fake cloth simulations as well. Cheers 🍻

[CreativeSteve]

This was such a nice video to watch as always Olof. I especially love your editing style as well. During my summer break from school. I plan on aiming to get better with 2D digital drawing and 3D environments as well.

[aseemshort]

The blast effect is beyond the imagination ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[pashantsbenjamins]

I like this one alot. It reminds me of a little shot I was working on which I did not finish, I have my dude standing in front of some cars as he swings is sword to rest on in shoulder an explosion behind him goes off. The idea was move the cars in sequence to the after effect but I did not get around to it. I may adopt that shot one day into my work later on down the road but not sure yet.

I really liked your underlay overlap with the text that shoved you off your chair. That was a very good trick

[nauqj]

i dont comment very often but since you were one of a few people who have inspired me a lot to animate from the beginning, especially frame by frame, your videos are extremely informative and useful, so i would you hope you could increase the volume of your voice a bit more. it's not too quiet, i can still hear it just fine if i plug in my earphones, but in speaker, it's a bit quiet, even compared to majority of other videos on youtube. this is nothing too significant, i just thought that since im gonna be watching your videos for a very long time, it would make it more enjoying than it already is.
ps: everytime i watch your work, it always make me want to pick up my pen and start working, your animations and paintings always look so amazing

[MikeSBrook]

Gonna give this a shot! Loved the advice at the end☄️

[sameera_viraj_K]

Love your videos man. Learning a lot 👌

[adelasad]

Beautiful back then and still beautiful now

[richstubbsanimation]

Insanely detailed tutorial! I can't wait to try it out for myself.☄

[vishwapat]

A lot of effort you're putting into making the animations, and editing and animating the YouTube video to make it interesting. Appreciate it. Subscribed.

[brightstonepictures]

Awesome animation! Thank you so much for all the insights given to this topic.

[animatorFan]

This looks cool. Nice effect that you made here :)