Getting Started in After Effects for Illustrator Users

Learn about Adobe After Effects, with a focus on familiar Illustrator features that you can leverage to put a design in motion.

Introduction

• After Effects and Illustrator: A natural fit?

1. Familiar Elements: Illustrator and After Effects

• Get started using AE like Illustrator
• An AE project is made up of links
• AE tools from Illustrator: Type and shapes
• Introduce timing and motion to graphics
• Fully-leverage Illustrator artwork in AE

2. Put Illustator Graphics in Motion

• Set up Illustrator layers for motion
• Revise Illustrator via Edit Original
• Animate a vector pattern animation
• Work with typography
• Add music to motion

Conclusion

• Go further with designs in motion