After Effects: Compositing Animation from Animate CC

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

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