Why I'm Animating A Million Beans | Motion Design Workflow

In this video, I'll be walking you through my design and animation process of creating an animation using Adobe After Effects and Illustrator. We'll start by designing in Illustrator, importing and organizing our assets into After Effects. Then, we'll dive into the fun stuff - animating our illustrations and adding effects to bring our project to life. This animation is for a collaboration with my students which I'll be revealing in the coming weeks.

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[globingoblin]

Implying you need an excuse to animate a million beans

[cozybowl]

Thank you Ben for not destroying the space-time continuum with the detailed beans

[ahsienyk]

after effects and beans, my two favourite things 😍
bean ✅
good ✅

[taebae]

I was just fretting the other day that I needed to make pebbles for my fish tank in After Effects, but no one on YouTube understood my niche need...

*two days later* Ben Marriot: Hey! I made and ANIMATED a millon beans that look alot like pebbles, let me show you how I did it!

Thank for being that one Youtuber that understands what "niche designer" means 😂😂😂

[weamers]

your editing is so professional and eye pleasing, i love everything you make

[belglula]

the editing and pace of the video is godlike, truely a masterpiece

[jakeynoobs]

Thank you for another cool beans video! I appreciate you including your experiment that crashed Ai, feels reassuring that it's not just me breaking things. Hope you have a good new year! To everyone else too!

[shonthelawn]

most subtle "flick the bean" of all time

[thedailyhappening]

Okay, Did it really take 12 weeks!!! That's insane ... Highly appreciate what you teach here on youtube for free man. Thank you.

[Cyranek]

the best heinz beanz animation I've ever seen

[Let_Toons]

One way to do an easier "detailed bean" would be to use the radial grandient with Highlight, Light, Shadow (+ Light again if you fell like it) colours, in that order.

That way you move the single gradient sphere and all the colours follow, and those can even become eliptical for a different effect.

But overall;
🍲Great Beans🍲

[jamestheredd]

You know, I look at the beans on my desk every day. But I never thought to animate them. Clever.

[EvaNagedesign]

Bean Marriott, the master of the bean world! May the beans ever be in your flavour... or something like that.

[lucienbishop]

Now this is what motion graphics is all about. ❤

[highpotencyiron]

Doing any sort of work in After Effects and not going insane is worth a pat on the back.

[chuggy]

I think he filled the criteria very well, awesome job!

[MACKYBOY-]

People who are skilled at design amaze me! Cool project.

[AleDavoli-ymri]

Hi Ben, I got an advice for your problem in assigning the texture to all the beans in the same time in Illustrator: you need to reset the beans orientation coordinates, so just create a merged object with all the beans, then separate it again (by selecting the whole new object and deselecting just one beans, then doing a simple cut and paste in the same position...). Let me know if this could help... 
And of course thanks a lot for your brilliant tuts! <3

[globingoblin]

The best thing about the can planet is that it allows a round earth, a flat earth, AND a hollow earth. Everyone wins!

[CodyNitcher]

This is 100% the content I am here for. Also, excellent job again with the music bed Ben 👌