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little bit of movement to your work or00:00:03
perhaps you're an animator looking to00:00:04
create your own custom designs well00:00:06
either way this is the short course for00:00:08
you my name is Jess for envato tuts plus00:00:10
and I'm a professional graphic and00:00:12
motion designer my work ranges from00:00:14
creating branding assets for businesses00:00:16
all the way up to complex motion design00:00:18
and animation work and in this course00:00:21
I'm going to show you how I work between00:00:22
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bring my designs to life if you're00:00:27
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more about invited elements head to the00:00:53
link in the description below in this00:00:55
course I'm going to show you how to00:00:56
design and animate this fun vintage00:00:58
sticker from scratch to use as a00:00:59
Standalone logo or to decorate your00:01:02
branding projects this is a really00:01:04
common round trip for a motion designer00:01:05
and I'm looking forward to jumping in00:01:07
and showing you so let's open up00:01:09
illustrator and get started okay so this00:01:12
is the final product that we're going to00:01:13
be making today we've got this cute00:01:16
vintage logo freshly squeezed which you00:01:19
could use on a cool branding project you00:01:21
could replace any fruit you like in the00:01:23
middle or anything else really it's a00:01:26
pretty variable style so I think before00:01:28
making any branding projects I always00:01:29
like to get inspired and for something00:01:32
like this there's some great artists out00:01:34
there making work in this style Steve00:01:37
gavan is great you've got Lauren Martin00:01:39
who does some really cute stuff yeah00:01:41
yeah Wella and Adam the illustrator are00:01:44
great people to look up if you are00:01:46
interested in making more in this style00:01:48
make sure you grab a lot of reference00:01:50
from you know a few different artists as00:01:52
well so your work stays original but00:01:54
yeah these guys are great and I usually00:01:56
pull together a bit of a mood board to00:01:58
inspire me so it00:02:00
that's a first step and then to create00:02:03
this logo I've picked this color scheme00:02:06
so quite saturated colors for this one00:02:08
because I wanted it to really stand out00:02:10
but yeah let's get into making it so to00:02:13
start off with we're just going to00:02:15
create our little orange body and he's00:02:18
really easy he's just a circle which is00:02:21
great so I'm going to create a circle00:02:22
and then color pick it to our orange00:02:24
because that's the color that he is I'm00:02:28
also going to add a stroke00:02:31
um and we're going to make it two one00:02:33
two one two one which is just a good00:02:35
gray it's also this gray here and we're00:02:37
going to make our weight for all of our00:02:39
Strokes in this Five Points so it's good00:02:43
to always keep your Strokes consistent I00:02:45
think it really lifts the final design00:02:47
if they're all the same00:02:49
um so yeah here basically is our little00:02:51
orange boy uh body which is a great easy00:02:54
start the next thing we're going to do00:02:56
is create his facial features which are00:02:59
again really easy shapes so we're going00:03:01
to start with00:03:03
just a rectangle00:03:06
like this this is going to be the back00:03:08
of his eye and then if you use your00:03:12
direct selection tool which is this one00:03:14
you can bring and select the shape make00:03:17
sure you click in the middle and not one00:03:18
of the corners you can then drag these00:03:21
rounded points to to round it off but00:03:24
then one trick I always do is to00:03:26
simplify this shape before you edit it00:03:29
any further so you've only got six00:03:31
points because if you don't do that you00:03:35
end up with two points at this top bit00:03:37
which is just super annoying when you're00:03:39
trying to do anything with it so yeah00:03:42
always if you've done this to any kind00:03:44
of pill shape simplify it down to six00:03:46
and then now we've got one nice point00:03:49
that we can manipulate how we like so00:03:53
yeah then I reckon to get that nice eye00:03:55
shape I'm just going to lengthen the gap00:03:58
between that top bit and these points in00:04:00
the middle00:04:01
so I'll select just those with direct00:04:03
selection and then press e to bring up00:04:06
the transform tools or over here it's00:04:09
this one00:04:10
and then shrink that down slightly00:04:14
so you've got a bit more space00:04:16
and then just to sort of even those up00:04:19
I'm going to shift C which will bring up00:04:22
the00:04:23
um I don't know what they call this00:04:24
Anchor Point tool00:04:26
and then just re-round these Corners a00:04:30
little bit so so doing it this way you00:04:32
know it's not perfect you're not getting00:04:33
like the same exact corners on each side00:04:36
because you're doing it kind of by hand00:04:38
I actually think that gives it a nice00:04:40
end look that's just a little bit less00:04:44
perfect than if you were using geometric00:04:47
shapes only cool so that's the basic00:04:50
shape for his eye I'm going to make the00:04:53
center of this white00:04:55
and then we're just going to duplicate00:04:57
this to make the pupil so command C00:04:59
command F should paste in front00:05:02
yep and hold option shift to scale down00:05:07
and then we're just going to flick the00:05:09
color into the center as well so now we00:05:11
have a nice pupil all right now the next00:05:14
thing we're going to do is create our00:05:16
little star for his eye so you can just00:05:19
start with a circle and00:05:23
um I think maybe for ease of00:05:25
seeing this I'll just switch that off so00:05:27
we've just got the stroke all right so00:05:29
we've just made a circle we're going to00:05:31
go to effect and distort and transform00:05:34
and pucker and bloat and this is a00:05:37
really easy way to get a star quite00:05:40
quickly we're going to drag it towards00:05:41
the pucker side00:05:43
probably about 60 is good 62. that looks00:05:47
alright00:05:48
hit OK and then because we don't really00:05:52
need to adjust this anymore I'm quite00:05:53
happy with that I'm just going to go00:05:55
object00:05:56
expand appearance and then we've got00:05:58
this as a path and not an effect because00:06:01
the style we're using00:06:03
is quite rounded and friendly we don't00:06:07
want these pointy Corners either so the00:06:10
first thing I'm going to do is go over00:06:11
to the stroke panel and let's go show00:06:14
all options00:06:16
and we're going to flick the corners off00:06:19
pointy and make sure that the cap is00:06:22
rounded and that's for all of our lines00:06:24
as well we'll do we'll make sure that's00:06:25
on and then I think we're also just00:06:28
going to drag these points in a little00:06:30
bit with our direct selection tool so00:06:32
that it's a bit bit more friendly again00:06:34
so we just want this to be white00:06:37
and with no stroke00:06:39
as it is there00:06:41
so we'll drag this over on top of his00:06:43
eyeball and hold shift to scale it down00:06:46
while remaining proportional like that00:06:50
and that's the basic basis of our eye00:06:53
but we also want him to have a little00:06:55
eyelid so what I'm going to do is00:06:59
duplicate this holding option and shift00:07:02
so we have our have our base layer and00:07:06
then I'm going to grab the brush tool00:07:08
and just draw00:07:10
a line across like that00:07:14
kind of like a bit of an eyelid shape00:07:17
down the bottom here00:07:18
and then we're going to use my favorite00:07:21
tool which is the shape Builder tool00:07:22
which is this one here and we're going00:07:25
to separate these shapes00:07:27
and then all we need is this one00:07:30
that's our eyelid and we can just pop it00:07:33
exactly over the top and we'll make it00:07:35
the same orange as our orange itself and00:07:40
then we're just going to bring this to00:07:41
the front so command shift bracket or00:07:43
you can right click arrange to bring up00:07:47
those tools but I would learn the00:07:48
shortcuts they're very handy00:07:50
cool all right that's our eye basically00:07:53
so we'll just bring that00:07:55
over onto our Orange00:07:58
and we'll duplicate it to make the00:08:02
second one and because he's kind of on a00:08:03
bit of an angle I'm just shifting this00:08:05
other one up slightly00:08:08
so00:08:09
they're kind of like he's on a bit of an00:08:12
angle00:08:13
cool all right what else does an orange00:08:16
have on its face probably a nose so this00:08:21
one will be pretty easy to do we're just00:08:23
going to use the pen tool and draw kind00:08:26
of a bit of an oblongy shape only three00:08:30
points you know that that should00:08:31
basically do it it's pretty simple shape00:08:35
maybe a little bit more boldness at the00:08:37
top because we want him to be a bit cute00:08:40
and make sure again that our Strokes are00:08:43
set to these ones00:08:46
cool all right now it's got a nose and00:08:49
then for the mouth you could experiment00:08:51
with all kinds of mouth shapes because I00:08:53
think the mouth really helps to show00:08:55
expression but today we're just going to00:08:58
do a little puckered mouth because he is00:09:01
freshly squeezed and we want to get that00:09:03
concept across so again with the pen00:09:06
tool we're just going to draw a little00:09:08
line like this we don't need a fill on00:09:10
this one either00:09:12
um and then we're going to draw00:09:15
a little00:09:17
smile00:09:18
just little00:09:20
and then we can take this shape00:09:22
command option shift to drag it out00:09:25
again o will be your reverse tool which00:09:29
is another very handy shortcut to just00:09:32
learn but it's up here if you need it00:09:34
and then hold shift and you can just00:09:36
reverse that one around00:09:39
and then we'll just move it up into00:09:41
place maybe we'll make him a little bit00:09:43
more Smiley if we bring up our00:09:46
tool we can convert this anchor to also00:09:49
be a curved one00:09:50
and then adjust them00:09:53
and that looks pretty good I'm just00:09:55
going to group that so command G oh no00:09:59
oh00:10:00
what happened we missed an anchor point00:10:02
maybe I should come in a bit closer00:10:04
going blind all right00:10:07
command G group this together and now00:10:10
he's got a little smile00:10:13
cute00:10:15
okay uh I reckon we need some freckles00:10:19
as well so these are pretty easy they're00:10:21
just dots you could draw them with the00:10:23
brush tool but I think because we're00:10:25
going after effects and after effects00:10:28
doesn't really like differing stroke00:10:30
types let's do them with a little circle00:10:34
uh instead so we'll just draw one00:10:39
that to the inside so that it's just the00:10:42
fill we don't need the stroke on this00:10:43
we'll hold option again to duplicate00:10:46
these into a nice little00:10:48
three and then option drag as well to00:10:53
put them on the other side so really00:10:55
easily you can get some cute little00:10:57
freckles on your little orange and maybe00:11:00
I'll just mess these ones up a bit so00:11:02
they're not quite the same00:11:04
because we're sort of going for that00:11:06
vintagey hand drawn Style00:11:08
all right cool so that's our face all00:11:11
about orange he's looking pretty good00:11:13
the eyes are a bit bigger than what we00:11:15
had but that's fine00:11:16
I think that looks good all right so he00:11:19
needs a little00:11:20
orange bit as well what do you call that00:11:23
like the00:11:24
the stem hole anyway we're gonna do want00:11:28
to heat those up here and just the pen00:11:31
tool will do and this shape it kind of00:11:34
doesn't really matter what it is it just00:11:35
kind of has to look a little bit like00:11:38
it's bloated on his top so something00:11:42
like that we'll do just a full black is00:11:46
all right and then it might be worth it00:11:49
just slightly round these Corners again00:11:52
too so we're matching that that style00:11:56
um so something like that will work00:11:58
and we'll also give him a leaf because00:12:02
he's fresh off the tree00:12:05
so again with the pen tool you could you00:12:09
know do this Leaf anywhere you like00:12:11
really but just a few points should do00:12:14
it usually I would draw a shape like00:12:16
this get it somewhere close enough and00:12:18
then go back with our Corner changing00:12:21
tool and just adjust these points you00:12:24
can also switch back to your direct00:12:27
selection at any point to kind of move00:12:29
individual points and anchors around00:12:33
so kind of using those two tools to00:12:36
really refine this until00:12:44
to go00:12:46
that'll do for now but maybe00:12:51
I'll come back to it we'll make it green00:12:54
as well00:12:55
and give it the same stroke as00:12:58
everything else00:13:01
two one and00:13:03
five00:13:06
cool I'll make it a bit bigger Okay cool00:13:09
so the next thing we're going to draw is00:13:11
his arm and his hand and I'll let you in00:13:14
on a bit of a secret I am terrible at00:13:16
drawing hands it's been one of the00:13:18
things that I just have never been able00:13:20
to crack so uh a good way to go work00:13:23
around this everybody does it is to find00:13:26
a good reference so I'm going to use00:13:28
envato and I'm going to search cartoon00:13:31
hand00:13:34
and this one I reckon will probably do00:13:37
so we're going to download that and we00:13:39
can bring it into our project and you00:13:41
could use uh this as it is because it's00:13:43
a vector which is fantastic or we can00:13:46
use it like I'm going to is just a00:13:48
drawing reference for the hand we want00:13:50
so let's get that in and over in00:13:54
illustrator here we go we've got our00:13:55
hand reference I am just going to flip00:13:59
this 180 and I'm going to use this hand00:14:02
here as my reference and we'll just I'll00:14:06
just lock it so Command 2 in illustrator00:14:09
is look and now that's not going to go00:14:11
anywhere it'll be out of our way00:14:14
all right so we're going to use this00:14:15
hand as a reference and we're just going00:14:17
to adapt it a little bit because00:14:18
obviously the finger is pointing out and00:14:19
we want him to just be full thumbs up00:14:21
and we're going to keep in mind like the00:14:24
style is a bit different that we're00:14:25
going for here we want to have that real00:14:28
sort of gloved Mickey Mouse cartoon00:14:30
style so we're going to make all the00:14:31
fingers pretty bulbous so I'll start a00:14:35
little bit wider than this but kind of00:14:37
just gives you a good idea of proportion00:14:41
using a reference like this00:14:44
so we've given a nice nice big thumb00:14:48
and then we're going to go down on a bit00:14:51
of an angle here00:14:53
to give us00:14:55
a finger just move this in a little bit00:14:57
more and you can you know switch between00:15:00
the pen tool the The Anchor Point00:15:03
selection tool and the direct selection00:15:05
tool to really have like good control as00:15:09
your as you're drawing these things00:15:11
all right so pretty happy with that our00:15:14
gloved hand00:15:17
I'll just come in G group all that00:15:20
together so we've got one nice shape and00:15:22
actually make sure this other side00:15:25
we'll use the direct selection to just00:15:28
cut through that group but that's also00:15:30
filled with white now so if we drag this00:15:33
over00:15:34
we've got a nice gloved hand all right00:15:37
so we'll make this00:15:39
about as about as big as that I reckon00:15:43
and for the arm the arm's really easy so00:15:46
we're just going to start him or start00:15:48
it off I don't know about there and just00:15:51
with one one big stroke you could do00:15:54
both sides but I think it's pretty00:15:56
simple turn off the fill and then we're00:15:58
going to make this like oh maybe like00:16:01
40. maybe a bit bigger00:16:04
maybe let's try 60.00:16:09
cool yeah that looks pretty good to me00:16:12
or maybe even a little bit bigger00:16:14
it's all in the details00:16:17
um we'll drag this in front so command00:16:19
shift bracket again00:16:21
and just kind of position this until00:16:25
it looks about right I reckon about00:16:27
there and then I usually like to keep a00:16:31
copy of this just in case I decide I00:16:33
want to change the arm shape later00:16:35
because it's much easier to do it when00:16:36
it's in its stroke form but I'll just00:16:39
move that out of the way and then we're00:16:40
going to go to object expand00:16:44
Phil and stroke00:16:45
and then we've got a nice solid shape00:16:49
now that isn't a stroke and I just want00:16:51
the color to be exactly the same as the00:16:53
rest of his body so I'm going to just00:16:56
color pick using this eyedropper tool00:16:58
which will give us both the stroke and00:17:00
the fill which is really handy in this00:17:03
case particularly also just going to we00:17:06
don't need this line here so if you00:17:07
click your direct selection tool and00:17:09
then select that particular line and hit00:17:12
delete it will go away which is also00:17:14
great we'll Chuck this into our nice00:17:18
rounded corners00:17:20
and that's all looking pretty good all00:17:22
right00:17:23
now we're just going to do some very00:17:25
quick highlights and shadows just to I00:17:29
don't know give this a bit more depth so00:17:32
I'll do these with the with the brush00:17:34
tool00:17:35
so starting over here because he's an00:17:38
orange and you know they're kind of00:17:39
lumpy and because we're about freshly00:17:42
squeezing I'm going to give him like a00:17:44
bit of a wavy highlight over here00:17:48
so just draw something like that00:17:51
and the great thing about the brush tool00:17:52
is if you're like drawing this line and00:17:55
then you decide oh it's actually not00:17:57
quite right I actually want you know00:17:59
maybe one less wave you can just select00:18:03
the path and then just go over it again00:18:05
and as long as you're starting and00:18:06
ending on the path that you've already00:18:08
drawn it'll just fix it up and snap it00:18:11
the way that it was which is great00:18:14
um so yeah I reckon something like that00:18:16
maybe maybe we'll just00:18:18
have it be a little more appeal like a00:18:21
something like that00:18:23
we want it to be graphic but also a00:18:26
little bit illustrative so something00:18:28
like that will do and I'm just going to00:18:30
move it out a little bit all right great00:18:32
so that's a good shape now we're going00:18:35
to fill it again with this orange but we00:18:39
don't need a stroke on this one a good00:18:40
color for a highlight I think always00:18:42
starts with the base color that you've00:18:43
got but we'll just pull the black00:18:45
completely out of it so in your B column00:18:48
here pull that out and in saturation you00:18:50
can pump that up a little bit so there's00:18:52
still a bit of color but you know it's00:18:55
it's a lighter tint of what we have and00:18:58
then we're going to also make this00:18:59
overlay so it's a bit luminescent00:19:03
all right and that's probably we might00:19:06
want to make it sort of I think I want00:19:08
it positioned slightly around the top a00:19:10
little bit more so I'm just going to00:19:12
rotate it using the center of the orange00:19:14
as the the rotation point so if you hit00:19:18
r that will bring up your rotation and00:19:20
this little anchor here is where it's00:19:22
going to rotate from so right now it's00:19:24
here00:19:25
but we want it to be from about Center00:19:27
so I'm just going to just click and that00:19:29
will change that and then you can click00:19:32
and drag to rotate the shape that you've00:19:34
made so00:19:36
that's probably good and then we00:19:38
obviously want to crop this into just00:19:40
the shape of his base so I'm going to00:19:43
command C to copy and command F to paste00:19:47
in front and then command shift00:19:49
uh Open Bracket to bring in the front00:19:52
and we're going to use the Pathfinder00:19:55
tool to do this bit so this is a really00:19:58
powerful tool sometimes it'll end up00:20:00
over here but if you can't see it go to00:20:02
window Pathfinder00:20:05
and you can also bring it out in this00:20:07
little dialog box so there's lots of00:20:10
options you can do here to keep you know00:20:12
to create shapes and and unite shapes00:20:15
and build new shapes it's really good so00:20:17
we'll select both our objects making00:20:19
sure that the circle is in front and00:20:23
then we're going to hit the intersect00:20:24
shape today which will give us our00:20:27
highlight shape and Classic this happens00:20:29
every time and I forget about it but it00:20:32
will take the the fill and stroke from00:20:36
that top object so we just need to00:20:38
change that again so just go back and do00:20:41
sort of what we had done before00:20:44
and overlay that so we get the same00:20:48
treatment back00:20:50
and then we're going to put the the leaf00:20:53
on top all right and we're also going to00:20:55
do a shadow for under his arm here so00:20:58
this is going to be pretty important00:21:00
because this arm is going to move like00:21:03
this he's going to go thumbs up so the00:21:06
shadow that we make also has to move00:21:08
with this and kind of look natural as he00:21:11
moves his arm so what might be the00:21:14
easiest is to move it into a position00:21:16
where you might see most of that shadow00:21:18
and then we're going to use this as our00:21:21
base shape for that shadow so just alt00:21:23
drag to duplicate his arm we're going to00:21:27
flick the color and then put this behind00:21:31
that so command bracket to move it00:21:33
behind00:21:34
and then I'm just going to adjust this00:21:36
slightly and pick up this singular point00:21:41
and drag it to meet that one00:21:44
so it's coming from Andrew's arm and00:21:46
then we're just going to square this off00:21:48
slightly using these handles00:21:52
so that it kind of comes a bit00:21:54
straighter down from his arm and then00:21:56
these ones will whoops00:21:59
these ones in the shadow00:22:02
will come up just to00:22:04
show where the shadow ends so that looks00:22:07
alright let's just rotate his arm back00:22:09
so you can change that Anchor Point if00:22:12
we look before00:22:14
and then in After Effects we're going to00:22:17
hide this with a simple mat to his body00:22:22
shape so if you wanted to finish your00:22:25
illustration you know to this standard00:22:27
you could do that same process I did00:22:29
before where you crop it out but I think00:22:31
because we're going into animation for00:22:33
now we'll leave this and do that masking00:22:36
in After Effects great okay I'm just00:22:38
going to quickly do some highlights on00:22:40
this Leaf too so we'll do another kind00:22:43
of bulby shape up here and same exact00:22:48
same process as before00:22:51
just making it that green00:22:54
taking the black out of it00:22:56
and making sure it's on00:23:00
overly00:23:02
and then you know you can come in and do00:23:04
a bit of refining to make sure that it's00:23:07
hitting that line but because it's on00:23:10
overlay you can't really tell No One's00:23:12
Gonna00:23:15
all right00:23:18
kind of want it to match the leaf as00:23:20
well00:23:22
cool and we'll just give it a little00:23:25
Shadow on this far side of it so I'm00:23:29
just going to use the brush tool again00:23:32
and something like that might be a good00:23:34
start00:23:36
color pick this because we want it to00:23:38
just be that and then we're going to00:23:40
bring00:23:42
these shapes in front so there you go00:23:44
it's just subtle kind of a little bit of00:23:47
extra thickness really on this line00:23:50
smoothly go into the line that we've got00:23:52
there we go00:23:54
cool00:23:56
all right so there's our character00:23:58
pretty much done yep that looks pretty00:24:02
good cool all right so here's our00:24:04
character00:24:05
I'm pretty happy with that um so we can00:24:07
probably just say goodbye to that now00:24:09
we're gonna do the rest of the sticker00:24:12
around him so draw a another Circle00:24:16
which is bigger than him and we're gonna00:24:18
make it this nice purple color and00:24:22
um just for easable group all of him00:24:24
together00:24:25
command G and then I'm going to drag him00:24:28
on top just so we have another version00:24:31
command shift bracket to bring him to00:24:33
the front00:24:35
cool all right and we probably yeah we00:24:38
probably want about that much space and00:24:40
now we're going to use some fonts so00:24:44
what we're going to do first is command00:24:46
C command V this circle and just so we00:24:50
can see it really easily I will00:24:53
make it a red line and we're going to00:24:57
Center this to this circle uh until we00:25:01
get about about that big00:25:03
and we're going to use our type on a00:25:05
path tool which is up here if you hold00:25:07
down you can select this one type on a00:25:10
path and then you go over to your path00:25:12
and when it highlights blue you can00:25:14
click and it will put the text around00:25:16
that Circle for you so we're going to00:25:18
have one00:25:20
freshy fresh00:25:22
Lee is the first word we're going to do00:25:26
so we'll select that or you can just00:25:28
command a select all of that all right00:25:31
so I'm going to use a font called standy00:25:34
Sandy bald which you can find on envato00:25:38
and there'll be a link in the00:25:39
description below as to where you can00:25:42
find this one but you know lots of fonts00:25:44
you could use for this just try and find00:25:46
something nice and vintage00:25:49
um it's a good way to go all right so00:25:51
there's our font I'm just going to also00:25:53
give it about00:25:55
70 on its kerning just so you know with00:26:00
these bold fonts it's a little bit00:26:01
easier to read especially on on the00:26:04
circle like this and I'm also just going00:26:06
to rotate it up until it looks alright00:26:10
and then we need a squeezed as well so00:26:14
alt I'll just drag this out alt shift to00:26:17
drag and copy and we'll write oops00:26:22
squeezed00:26:24
in here but as you can see this is not00:26:26
going to work because it'll be upside00:26:28
down which is very annoying00:26:31
so the the way that you flip it is you00:26:35
get your direct selection tool and you00:26:37
find this one so these ones are your00:26:40
oops you're kind of flow on things so if00:26:43
you wanted to add another Circle you00:26:46
could click those but actually generally00:26:48
they're kind of unhelpful so this one is00:26:51
the one we want and you can just Flip00:26:52
Flip that over00:26:54
and then that will bring your text to00:26:56
the inside and if you bring that over00:26:58
now and select our freshly and then00:27:02
double select it to have this be our00:27:04
hero anchor and then you can kind of00:27:08
make sure that they're aligned that way00:27:10
it's still a bit it's a bit too small00:27:13
the radius of that because it's taking00:27:16
it off this one so usually what I do is00:27:18
just make sure it's all lined up to the00:27:20
center00:27:22
and then scale it holding alt and shift00:27:26
until that blue line hits the top of the00:27:29
text that you're wanting to match and00:27:31
then we will just pick that text again00:27:34
to make sure it's the right size00:27:36
and then you can just rotate it until it00:27:39
looks Center00:27:41
all right so we've got our text I'm just00:27:43
going to make this a little bit bigger00:27:45
maybe like00:27:47
that's good and then00:27:50
just rotate these00:27:53
into place00:27:56
and actually I think you know a bit more00:27:59
a dynamic sticker let's off center the00:28:02
the rotation of these so00:28:05
that looks pretty cool to me I'm going00:28:07
to make them white as well00:28:12
lovely okay00:28:14
um I'm just going to ungroup our little00:28:16
orange because now he's in the right00:28:18
spot and bring his00:28:21
um in front of the text so just00:28:23
selecting it all in command shift00:28:24
bracket again00:28:26
and yeah we're basically there so we're00:28:28
just going to very quickly now make our00:28:30
little side oranges00:28:33
and this is a really easy easy peasy00:28:36
illustration to do because it's all just00:28:39
basic shapes so we're going to start00:28:41
with our orange circle00:28:43
again00:28:45
and then select just this point on here00:28:49
with our direct selection tool and00:28:51
delete that because we just want a00:28:53
semicircle and then we're going to close00:28:55
this shape so if you hover with your pen00:28:58
tool and you get this little divider00:29:01
line then it knows that you're talking00:29:02
about that Anchor Point and you want to00:29:04
close it and the circle means the shape00:29:07
is gonna be closed which is what we just00:29:10
did and then we're going to round these00:29:11
Corners off a little bit just to match00:29:13
our style as well00:29:15
so that's our basic slice shape then00:29:18
we're going to go up to object and go to00:29:22
path00:29:23
offset path is what we want which is00:29:25
going to give us the same path again00:29:27
just scaled up so it's a bit sometimes00:29:30
it's a bit better than scaling because00:29:32
it'll keep the same like ratios on the00:29:34
corners rather than scaling will kind of00:29:36
distort it so sometimes this is a better00:29:39
way to cut things into pieces cool so00:29:42
offset 10 that looks alright00:29:44
hit OK and then this middle shape is00:29:47
going to be our inside wedge bits so I'm00:29:51
just going to color pick the same00:29:53
color is here00:29:55
so that it matches our highlights and00:29:57
then to get our little wedges I'm going00:30:00
to use the pen tool and just draw00:30:02
a straight line up the center of the00:30:05
shape and I'll just make this something00:30:07
visible00:30:09
and it's not quite Center so just select00:30:12
both of these and double select the back00:30:15
one00:30:17
to Center that00:30:19
and then we're just going to rotate this00:30:22
from this bottom point so again press R00:30:24
for rotate select the bottom anchor with00:30:27
your rotate so your anchors down there00:30:29
and then we're going to hold alt shift00:30:31
and00:30:33
I'm just going to do this by eye as well00:30:35
and if you're holding oops00:30:38
and then if we go back here00:30:41
and holding Alt00:30:44
until we get you know some nice quarters00:30:47
in our wedges like that00:30:50
and then we're going to select all these00:30:53
and use again our shape Builder tool to00:30:57
separate these shapes out00:31:01
and then we'll delete00:31:04
these bits we don't need them00:31:08
and so now oh yeah classic we've00:31:12
forgotten that it changes our00:31:15
colors so we'll just make change that00:31:16
back00:31:17
and then we're going to do the same00:31:19
offset pass path thing again to give00:31:22
these a bit more space so object path00:31:26
offset path and this time we want to go00:31:29
negative because we want them to go in00:31:31
so we'll go negative maybe three and if00:31:35
you click off it'll show you what it00:31:36
looks like so that looks pretty good to00:31:38
me00:31:39
hit okay and then we can just delete00:31:41
these backwards00:31:44
backwards out a little [Applause]00:31:46
so command G that group it all together00:31:50
and then we can bring it in00:31:52
and maybe we'll put it on a bit of an00:31:55
angle00:31:57
and copy it over here00:32:00
all right00:32:03
how's that looking maybe a bit bigger00:32:05
all right I'm going to drag this off the00:32:07
artboard so we can see00:32:09
better here but we're going to also just00:32:12
give this an outline using that same00:32:14
offset path technique again that I mean00:32:18
there's plenty ways you could do this00:32:19
but I think offset pass sometimes is the00:32:22
easiest because then it's still it's a00:32:25
shape it's not just a stroke as well so00:32:28
there's our little outside line which00:32:30
I've just made white to be the edge of00:32:32
our sticker00:32:33
all right and now we're going to give it00:32:35
the texture which is our last design00:32:37
step so I've got this texture from00:32:40
envato which is just a poster stick00:32:42
texture and I'm just going to drag out00:32:45
alt drag the base the very base of our00:32:48
sticker on top of that00:32:51
and we're just going to make a clipping00:32:52
mask so if you select both you can do it00:32:55
up here under object clipping mask make00:32:58
or command 7 which is another very handy00:33:01
shortcut and then we're just going to00:33:04
bring it on top so you might select that00:33:06
back one double select it again00:33:09
and Center it and then bring it to the00:33:12
front using command shift bracket and00:33:14
we're going to00:33:16
multiply that as well00:33:19
and there's our sticker all done okay so00:33:22
we're ready to bring this into after00:33:24
effects and usually I would use this00:33:26
great plugin called Overlord which you00:33:28
can go check out it makes this process a00:33:30
lot simpler but I'm going to show you00:33:32
how we can do it without any plugins so00:33:35
the most important thing is that we00:33:37
separate this illustration onto some00:33:39
different layers and for ease as well00:33:42
we're going to use00:33:44
this artboard here so if you want to00:33:49
create a new artboard you can go to00:33:50
document setup edit artboards and select00:33:54
this one and we're just gonna alt shift00:33:57
to copy this artboard as well so this00:34:00
one's exactly 1080 by 1080 which is a00:34:03
nice Instagram size00:34:05
and will be the exact same artboard size00:34:07
that we make in After Effects so so that00:34:09
everything comes over in the right spot00:34:11
we'll just make sure it's the same00:34:13
artboard00:34:15
all right so there's our new sticker00:34:17
and we're gonna first off this uh00:34:21
multiply effect00:34:23
we might just remake this in After00:34:24
Effects I think but we'll put it on to a00:34:26
different layer anyway and we'll call it00:34:28
paper texture then the text I think we00:34:33
can outline this because I'm pretty00:34:35
happy with it we don't need to edit it00:34:36
when we're in After Effects and there's00:34:39
a whole other way that you might00:34:40
actually have to make this text come00:34:42
over in a circle in After Effects which00:34:44
I don't want to have to worry about00:34:45
today so I'm going to expand this or you00:34:49
can go it's actually object type create00:34:52
outlines or command shift o and then00:34:56
these are just raw shapes now which is00:34:58
fabulous so00:35:00
gonna pull that onto a different layer00:35:02
and call this type00:35:06
and then we'll grab our little orange00:35:09
slices and we'll call these these00:35:12
oranges00:35:14
all right let's call them orange slice00:35:18
then we want his arm to be one layer so00:35:21
that can go into a new layer00:35:24
and we'll call it um00:35:27
and then we can put his00:35:31
his freckles and his mouth and his nose00:35:35
will do on00:35:38
a new layer and we'll call this face00:35:44
and the leaf head00:35:49
um so the leaf we put on a different00:35:50
layer because I reckon it'd be cute to00:35:53
have him you know his little rotate of00:35:56
his obvious Leaf there so that needs to00:35:58
be on its own layer the the face I'm not00:36:01
really planning to move so they're00:36:03
they're good together but the arm we00:36:05
definitely want to move and the eyes I00:36:07
think we're going to have these do a00:36:08
little rotate and him sort of uh have00:36:11
his eyelids come up so we want them to00:36:15
be separate from the rest of his body00:36:17
I'm also going to put I'll put his body00:36:22
on a new layer and00:36:25
on that layer I think we can also have00:36:27
this which is probably just going to00:36:29
move with his base so I'll put that00:36:32
there and the Highlight will keep on a00:36:35
new layer because we might want him to00:36:37
rotate but but the angle of the light is00:36:40
not going to change if he rotates so00:36:42
that needs to be on a separate layer too00:36:44
so00:36:46
let's just bring that back up so this is00:36:48
orange base00:36:51
and this is highlight00:36:54
all right and then we just need to grab00:36:56
his eyes so let me switch that off00:36:58
and actually I'm gonna just delete the00:37:01
whole second eye because00:37:02
uh we're gonna do this with a pre-comp00:37:04
in After Effects and it'll be much00:37:07
easier just to duplicate the eye after00:37:09
it's animated so we'll just drag the eye00:37:12
elements onto a new layer but we00:37:16
actually want to have this broken up00:37:17
into more parts so I'm going to put00:37:20
pupil on its own layer00:37:24
basically everything that you want to00:37:26
move has to be on its own layer and then00:37:29
we'll put00:37:30
this is the eyelid00:37:34
and this is the eye back00:37:37
and then on the eye back somewhere00:37:40
is going to be our00:37:42
it's white as well which makes it hard00:37:43
to see but our star00:37:47
so we've got the start we've got the00:37:49
pupil00:37:50
we've got the eye lid00:37:53
and we've got the eye back so we'll make00:37:56
a really simple eye rig for that when we00:37:58
get into after effects using that piece00:38:01
and all right and the only last thing I00:38:05
want to do probably is flip00:38:08
the arm on top of that type there and oh00:38:11
the other last thing actually no that's00:38:13
not the last thing the shadow00:38:16
so I'll just put that on its own layer00:38:18
as well00:38:22
um00:38:24
okay and the last thing we need to do is00:38:27
just make sure this is the only artboard00:38:29
in the comp so I'm just going to go00:38:31
through and delete00:38:33
this artboard and this artboard and it00:38:37
shouldn't really matter but I'm just00:38:38
going to delete all this stuff as well00:38:40
just so00:38:41
it's nice and clean all right so we've00:38:44
saved that00:38:45
we have saved that and we're going to00:38:47
jump into After Effects now00:38:53
[Music]00:38:57
six my favorite program so we're going00:38:59
to create a new composition that matches00:39:01
our one our artboard in illustrator so00:39:05
let's just call this freshly oh00:39:09
freshly squeezed00:39:12
v0100:39:14
cool so we're just going to adapt this00:39:16
to be 1080 by 1080 to match that00:39:19
artboard size 25 frames a second is fine00:39:21
for what we're doing today and about00:39:23
five seconds is good too so you just00:39:26
select those and hit OK and we've got00:39:28
our artboard so uh to import our file we00:39:32
can just go file import00:39:34
file or you can just drop and drag it in00:39:36
navigate to where you've saved your file00:39:39
here he is these you don't really have00:39:41
to play with there'll be another dialog00:39:43
box just now when I click open that I00:39:47
usually change the settings in so import00:39:49
and as composition is good because we00:39:52
want all of our layers if we imported it00:39:54
as footage it would import it as one00:39:56
flat object which is not very helpful00:39:59
and that's all grayed out so that's fine00:40:01
footage Dimensions layer size that's00:40:03
fine because our document and layer size00:40:06
are the same because we've made it all00:40:08
1080. so that's okay all right so here00:40:12
is our it's actually made us a brand new00:40:15
comp which is fine because it's brought00:40:18
in the comp and it's exactly the the00:40:20
right sizes that we need we actually00:40:21
don't need this other comp that we made00:40:22
before but you know how to make one if00:40:25
you do so let's just delete this comp00:40:28
and we'll just work in this one that00:40:29
we've got already okay so our paper00:40:31
texture as you can see it's masked which00:40:35
is great but it hasn't got the multiply00:40:37
effect that we need anymore so that's00:40:39
quite easy to replicate in After Effects00:40:41
if you come down to mode you've got all00:40:43
your color blending modes that you would00:40:45
normally have in any other program which00:40:47
is great so we'll just put that back on00:40:50
to multiply so the first thing we're00:40:53
going to do is parent some things00:40:54
together so we have to animate less00:40:59
so our arm the other thing we probably00:41:01
want to do as we parent is make sure00:41:03
that our anchor points are in the right00:41:05
spot because right now if you you know00:41:08
you can press00:41:09
if we drop down this menu and bring up00:41:12
our tools we're rotating from the middle00:41:14
of his arm which is not where arms00:41:16
rotate from so we're just going to use00:41:18
this is called the Pan behind tool or00:41:21
the Anchor Point tool and we're just00:41:23
going to drag this point up to where we00:41:26
want it to rotate from and it will scale00:41:29
and move and everything from this00:41:31
position now it's not just rotate so00:41:33
that's in the right spot there and then00:41:36
we're going to parent the arm to the00:41:39
orange base which is his body so if we00:41:43
move this around that's his body there00:41:45
the next thing we're going to do is00:41:47
parent the type to the the back of this00:41:50
sticker because we're going to add a bit00:41:52
of rotation movement to the orange and00:41:55
to the to the text and the these orange00:41:57
slices as well just to give it a bit of00:42:00
you know dynamic easing00:42:03
um so the type actually and the orange00:42:04
slices can all connect to the sticker00:42:08
background so that now if we hit r on00:42:10
our keyboard to bring up rotation that's00:42:12
going to all move together nicely the00:42:15
next thing we've got here is the face so00:42:17
that can just connect to the orange base00:42:19
which is his body00:42:21
the leaf the same but we're going to00:42:25
with the leaf we want this to rotate too00:42:27
and so we're going to use that same pan00:42:30
behind tool just to adjust it to where00:42:32
the leaf would probably rotate from00:42:34
which is about there00:42:36
our highlight also has lost its blending00:42:39
mode so we're just going to make this00:42:41
overlay like it was in illustrator and00:42:44
that's done that which is good and we00:42:47
will parent this one as well to the00:42:50
orange base like so00:42:53
all right then what we're going to do00:42:55
with the eye is a little bit different00:42:56
we're going to pre-compose the eye and00:42:58
do our animation in a separate00:43:00
composition so you can think of comps00:43:03
kind of like art boards it's a good way00:43:05
of separating them out and keeping your00:43:08
layer stack neat so you can focus00:43:10
exactly on what it is you're trying to00:43:11
animate so if we select all of the parts00:43:14
of his eye so the star the eyelid the00:43:17
pupil and the eye back and right click00:43:20
to pre-compose we're gonna00:43:24
get this little dialog box which we and00:43:27
we're going to name it I you would just00:43:29
leave it as as these settings I think in00:43:32
this case it's pretty simple this one so00:43:35
now our eye is all together in this one00:43:37
layer and if we double click into it we00:43:40
get just the eye by itself which is00:43:42
exactly what we want00:43:43
so for this00:43:45
piece of Animation we're going to have00:43:47
his eye this little star rotate and00:43:50
we're going to have him look up and have00:43:54
his eyelid sort of move up as well for a00:43:56
nice little bit of character animation00:43:59
so the star is really easy if you press00:44:01
r on your keyboard to bring up rotation00:44:03
we're just going to give this a tiny00:44:05
expression which is a very handy one so00:44:07
if you press alt and hit the rotation00:44:11
stopwatch you'll bring up the expression00:44:13
panel and all it is is time00:44:17
asterisks maybe like 10000:44:21
and if we play that it's just going to00:44:23
keep going at a hundred times I'm not00:44:27
quite sure what the math is here but it00:44:29
works00:44:31
and the bigger the number the faster it00:44:35
will turn the smaller number the slower00:44:38
it will turn so maybe 200 is probably00:44:42
good here00:44:44
so there you go and then we don't have00:44:46
to worry about setting any keyframes at00:44:47
all it's just going to do it and now we00:44:49
want to have his eye lid come up so it00:44:55
is kind of squinting as the animation00:44:58
starts so we're going to do this with00:45:00
positions so p on the keyboard to bring00:45:02
up position00:45:03
and we're going to set a keyframe so if00:45:06
you just click the stopwatch without00:45:08
pressing anything else you'll you'll set00:45:10
a keyframe here which you can zoom in on00:45:13
down here and see exactly what frames00:45:15
we're working with00:45:16
so yeah I reckon maybe about 15 frames00:45:21
in we can set another keyframe and00:45:24
that's our final resting spot00:45:27
and then if we go back to the start and00:45:30
then drag this down or you can just you00:45:33
know pull it around wherever you want00:45:34
here that's probably about you know00:45:37
where we want it off his eye so that00:45:39
that's probably all right but maybe it's00:45:42
a little bit slow and a little bit00:45:45
flat so00:45:47
make it a bit faster and then we're also00:45:49
going to add some easing to these00:45:51
keyframes so easing basically changes00:45:54
the velocity of the speed in which you00:45:58
know an animation moves so we are going00:46:01
to just right click and go keyframe00:46:03
assistant easy ease which will turn both00:46:06
of these into easy ease keyframes and if00:46:09
we look at this in the graph which is00:46:11
here you can see what it looks like00:46:13
you've got a nice curve now00:46:16
at the start and the end so it's slow to00:46:18
start and then slow to end unlike what00:46:20
we had before which was a straight00:46:23
line as you can see there so let's just00:46:26
do that again easy ears you can also do00:46:28
it down here in the graph editor so00:46:30
we've got a slow start and a slow end00:46:33
which maybe could still be a bit faster00:46:36
so what I might do so that we can adjust00:46:40
this graph a little easier is separate00:46:42
the dimensions00:46:44
so you can right click separate00:46:46
Dimensions here x position is this way00:46:49
which we're not animating right now so00:46:51
we don't need that one I'm just going to00:46:53
click it off but why now we've got00:46:56
handles here which we can use to adjust00:46:59
the the easing of this particular00:47:02
movement and because we don't really00:47:04
need to have the slow start here we just00:47:06
kind of want the slow in I'm going to00:47:08
make this a really steep curve00:47:12
so that it it's kind of faster the00:47:15
beginning and then slows in00:47:17
so something like that maybe a little00:47:19
bit faster again because a blink is00:47:21
pretty fast but of course00:47:24
what good is an eyelid if it's on the00:47:26
outside of your eye so um we need to mat00:47:29
this to the back of this eye layer and00:47:33
illustrator layers are sometimes a bit00:47:35
hard to work with so we're going to make00:47:37
shape layers out of this eye as well so00:47:40
if you right click and then go to create00:47:44
shapes from vector layer it will give us00:47:47
the exact same shape just editable in00:47:49
After Effects now which is really handy00:47:52
for lots of other reasons as well other00:47:54
than just this particular scenario and00:47:57
we're also going to do it with the eye00:47:59
back as well00:48:02
there we go and then we can just delete00:48:04
these layers we don't need them anymore00:48:06
all right so then you're going to go to00:48:08
your effects panel which is over here or00:48:11
if you can't find it it'll be in window00:48:13
effects and presets to bring that up and00:48:16
type in set matte00:48:19
which is the effect we're going to then00:48:20
drag on to the eyelid and then basically00:48:24
what this does is tell us from another00:48:27
layer in our composition when you want00:48:30
to see this layer and when you don't so00:48:32
we're going to go up here and select our00:48:35
matte layer to be the eye back which00:48:39
will then as you can see easily hide and00:48:43
reveal that when it's overlapping with00:48:45
this eye back layer which is really good00:48:47
but as you can see it's like not really00:48:49
bringing the stroke with it so we're00:48:52
just going to duplicate the eye back00:48:54
outlines and drag that to the top of our00:48:57
stack and then just remove its fill so00:49:00
if you go up here and you press the blue00:49:02
fill you get all the different fill00:49:04
options so gradient colors and that kind00:49:07
of thing but we don't want any so we're00:49:08
just going to hit no and hit00:49:11
and now we've got a nice mat with our00:49:13
eye working pretty nicely I think for00:49:17
realism when you you know when you00:49:19
squint your eye your pupil is going to00:49:21
move too so we'll just do a simple the00:49:24
same position animation on the pupil 200:49:27
where that'll be our end State at the00:49:30
start00:49:31
we're just going to have it you know be00:49:33
a bit lower00:49:35
like that00:49:36
and then the easing will just make that00:49:40
the same00:49:41
as the other one so00:49:44
separate the dimensions here00:49:48
of the X and the Y00:49:51
there's another great plug-in that I00:49:53
often use called ease copy which lets00:49:56
you copy the exact same ease values00:49:59
there we go00:50:01
and lastly we're going to parent the00:50:04
star to the pupil as well so that the00:50:07
position of the star will follow the00:50:09
pupil00:50:10
too00:50:12
okay how's that for an eye00:50:16
go back into our animation t00:50:19
cool all right so let's duplicate that00:50:22
eye so we've got two00:50:23
as all oranges do and the face is in00:50:28
front so that's good because we don't00:50:29
want his little maybe a bit more overlap00:50:32
with the nose looks good and maybe it'll00:50:34
bring this slightly closer together00:50:36
cute all right how's that looking pretty00:50:39
good00:50:41
cool00:50:42
all right now let's add some rotation00:50:45
for the in you know sort of Animation in00:50:49
of this sticker so we're just going to00:50:51
get the sticker uh ground which is this00:50:54
background layer00:50:56
and parented to that remember is our00:50:58
type and our little orange slices and00:51:02
we're going to make this like negative00:51:05
maybe negative 30 I reckon but doesn't00:51:09
really matter animation is all about00:51:10
what you feel and then about 10 frames00:51:13
in we're going to make this zero so it's00:51:15
back to normal00:51:17
and then ease wise if we go to the graph00:51:20
editor add some E's to this I think same00:51:23
as our eyes we want a fast in and a slow00:51:27
stop00:51:29
yeah so it's kind of like whipping in is00:51:32
the movement we want and then we're00:51:35
going to get the orange base which is00:51:37
our orange guy and we're going to rotate00:51:40
him as well maybe oh we've forgotten to00:51:44
parent some things the eyes because we00:51:47
just did them parent them as well to00:51:49
your orange base yeah that looks that00:51:51
looks alright I will explain this messy00:51:54
shadow in a second all right so maybe a00:51:57
little bit less so negative 20 is good00:52:00
because we want this to move slightly00:52:02
less than the outside and we'll give it00:52:04
the same easing as well00:52:07
something similar00:52:13
cool00:52:14
I reckon actually this back one can be00:52:17
more maybe let's do negative 50 so00:52:20
there's more00:52:22
discrepancy and you can also00:52:25
extend the length by a couple of frames00:52:28
of the orange00:52:30
so he lands slightly later00:52:33
maybe a little bit less maybe I went too00:52:36
crazy00:52:37
yeah00:52:39
it's nice00:52:42
cool all right now this arm shadow00:52:46
let's deal with that I think we will00:52:49
parent it to the arm because when he00:52:52
moves his arm we want the shadow to kind00:52:54
of move with him as well but uh00:52:56
obviously we want it to be stuck behind00:53:00
this circle so we will I think here00:53:04
let's use a track map just for something00:53:06
else so we're going to duplicate this00:53:09
orange base by pressing command D so00:53:12
you've got the exact same back that we00:53:14
want him to be masked by okay with this00:53:16
new update of after effects00:53:19
um we can now have a track mat anywhere00:53:21
we like so you can use it this very00:53:23
similar way to Parenting where you00:53:25
select this pick Whip and00:53:29
um oh it's the other way around isn't it00:53:30
we want the shadow to be track matted by00:53:34
our base which has just happened there and you00:53:37
can flip it to be inverted or not00:53:39
inverted with these little toggles which00:53:42
is very handy if you're using an old00:53:45
version of artifacts it just has to be00:53:46
the layer on top and then you know use00:53:49
the same system here so that's pretty00:53:52
great if this isn't showing up um just00:53:55
right click click this top bar and00:53:58
you'll get these columns and you can00:53:59
turn it on it is the modes one is the00:54:03
one you're looking for there00:54:04
lovely all right so we've got a little00:54:07
bit of rotation we've got our shadow00:54:09
matted I think all he needs now is maybe00:54:12
a little bit more rotation on his arm to00:54:15
give a big thumbs up and maybe his00:54:17
little leaf so we've moved the Anchor00:54:19
Point for our arm so it's ready for us00:54:21
to animate00:54:22
and we're going to animate both the00:54:25
rotation and the position so R and P on00:54:28
your keyboard00:54:30
and I might drag these keyframes back to00:54:33
foremost about where the rotation is00:54:36
going to end and we'll go yeah maybe00:54:39
another five or so frames up we're going00:54:43
to rotate it00:54:44
um when you when you give a thumbs up00:54:46
you kind of go out and then up and then00:54:49
settle back down so we need basically00:54:51
three maybe four keyframes let's see so00:54:54
we're going to go down first by let's00:54:57
say 10.00:54:58
and then another five keyframes let's go00:55:02
up to00:55:03
I don't know yeah negative00:55:05
13.00:55:07
and then down again back to zero and00:55:11
then it's nice to have an offset of two00:55:15
factors like position and rotation often00:55:17
work really well together so position00:55:19
wise when he goes down we might have the00:55:22
arm go down slightly and maybe a little00:55:25
bit to the right and then when he goes00:55:28
up00:55:29
we'll have the arm come up and then back00:55:33
to the same keyframe that we had00:55:34
originally so you can just copy and00:55:36
paste that in keyframe there and then00:55:39
we'll select all of these00:55:41
select them in the graph editor and easy00:55:43
ease them00:55:45
and let's just look what that looks like00:55:46
whoa00:55:49
cool all right it's looking somewhere I00:55:52
reckon he's probably just got a bit too00:55:53
much sauce over here on this rotation00:55:58
so bring that down maybe it's more like00:56:00
negative00:56:01
seven and the other thing we're going to00:56:04
do is just offset these position00:56:05
keyframes so if you select them all and00:56:08
you can press alt and arrow keys on your00:56:11
keyboard to do this really fast or you00:56:12
can just drag them but about a frame00:56:15
different00:56:17
just gives that animation a little bit00:56:20
more character I think is what it is00:56:23
it's00:56:25
yeah00:56:26
cool so he's going great00:56:30
all right cool let's just do a little00:56:33
bit on the leaf we probably want it to00:56:35
be00:56:36
as he's coming in it can settle so he's00:56:41
rotating this way so we probably want it00:56:43
to start back here with the rotation00:56:46
at a negative so maybe it's up here00:56:50
let's do negative 15.00:56:53
and then as it lands we want this to00:56:55
come a bit further down than zero so00:56:57
maybe nine and then it's going to settle00:57:00
at zero00:57:03
so00:57:05
again with some nice easing00:57:09
let's just see what that looks like in a00:57:11
basic woo00:57:13
I reckon it could probably be a bit00:57:15
tighter00:57:17
maybe this final resting is quite slow00:57:20
and we can bring back the00:57:23
keyframe a little bit more just so it00:57:26
matches the ease of the rotation because00:57:28
it's quite a slow00:57:31
probably also if you want to change the00:57:33
value of anything you can move these up00:57:36
and down the graph so that's that's00:57:38
obviously 10 10 degrees in rotation but00:57:41
if we want it to be more like five just00:57:43
move that down00:57:45
I might move this up so it's just a bit00:57:47
subtler there we go00:57:49
not so crazy of a fringe flip all right00:57:53
so usually at this point I spend a lot00:57:55
of time watching this over and over and00:57:58
over again until I'm happy with it and00:58:01
I'll make very small tweaks to the00:58:03
animation because it really is about00:58:06
watching it over and over and over again00:58:07
sometimes to get it exactly right so00:58:10
I've just tweaked this a little bit more00:58:13
mainly just reducing the amount of00:58:15
animation on his arm I think I always00:58:17
over animate and then I have to walk00:58:18
myself back and then the last thing we00:58:21
want to do before we do a cool little00:58:23
sticker animation is just parent this00:58:25
paper texture that we have on top to our00:58:29
sticker ground which is our main00:58:31
rotation00:58:33
so now that will move with our sticker00:58:37
cool all right so now we're just going00:58:39
to do that last peel animation which is00:58:42
very easy and with just one effect but00:58:46
we need to have all of these elements00:58:48
pre-composed to do that so you could do00:58:50
what we did before and select them all00:58:52
and right click and pre-compose and00:58:54
everything or you can just grab your00:58:56
comp up here that you want to00:58:58
pre-compose if you're using all the00:59:00
layers and just drag it into this comp00:59:03
button here and then you'll have the00:59:05
exact comp that you have with all of00:59:08
your layers but in a pre-composition the00:59:11
only thing we don't want in this pre-com00:59:13
actually is this background so I'm just00:59:15
going to command X to cut it and I'm00:59:18
going to put it00:59:20
in here paste it in there so now we've00:59:22
got our background and we've got our00:59:25
freshly squeezed sticker all by itself00:59:28
okay so we found page turn in our00:59:30
effects panel and we're going to drop00:59:32
that onto our main comp here00:59:35
in any way you like you can drop it onto00:59:37
there you can drop it onto here plenty00:59:38
options and then as you can see we've00:59:41
got a lot of things to play around with00:59:43
here we've got the fold position so if00:59:45
you if you can't find it you can press00:59:47
this but it's this little dot here as00:59:50
well and you can pull this around to00:59:52
show you where it's going to fold from00:59:54
you can change which corner you want it00:59:57
to fold from so you know top left or top01:00:01
right I think I prefer top right most of01:00:03
the time so like that you can change the01:00:06
fold radius which is sort of how round01:00:09
it looks or how flat it looks but I01:00:13
think most of these settings are all01:00:15
fine I would just like to give it a back01:00:17
page so that we don't see the sticker on01:00:19
both sides because at the moment it's01:00:21
rendering the front and back page as the01:00:24
same layer which is not what we want so01:00:27
I'm just going to make a01:00:30
Circle let me just reset this so it's01:00:33
flat draw a circle with your shape tool01:00:36
up here make sure you're deselected off01:00:39
all the other layers so that it's going01:00:41
to draw a shape and we want it to be01:00:43
about the same size as our sticker here01:00:46
so that looks pretty good and I'll just01:00:50
call this sticker back oops tight01:00:53
properly sticker back01:00:57
and I'm just going to hide it because we01:00:59
actually don't need to see it we just01:01:00
need to have it so select back onto our01:01:03
layer and let me just move this so we01:01:06
can see if you go to your back page01:01:09
layer here and click sticker back now01:01:11
we've got our white there which is01:01:13
awesome but we want I want the opacity01:01:15
to be 100 instead of 80 because01:01:18
we're dealing with an opaque sticker01:01:21
here01:01:22
all right cool so that's our sticker01:01:24
let's give it a little bit of animation01:01:26
on this fold position so you can press01:01:28
the stopwatch to turn it on up here and01:01:31
then you on your keyboard will open any01:01:34
active keyframes which is a very very01:01:37
handy shortcut you again will close it01:01:40
so that's good one to know so let's go01:01:42
maybe maybe about 10 frames in just as01:01:46
it lands I think is when we want the01:01:48
peel to finish two so we'll select that01:01:50
as our end State back to the first one01:01:53
and let's pull it right off01:01:56
and then01:01:58
we'll give this again ease01:02:01
whoa that's pretty fast maybe we'll slow01:02:04
that down a little bit01:02:06
cool I think I'd let's do the scale as01:02:09
well so we're gonna start it a little01:02:12
bit bigger than it ends and we'll give01:02:16
this01:02:20
fast in01:02:22
slow out all right that's looking pretty01:02:25
good but I think we're missing quite a01:02:29
bit of that cool animation that we did01:02:30
at the start apparently so let's just do01:02:33
a quick time remap on this pre-comp01:02:36
layer01:02:37
so we're going to right click it and go01:02:39
time enable time remapping and then01:02:42
we're just going to shift this forward a01:02:46
few frames and our keyframes back and01:02:48
then drag that start of the layer up01:02:50
because this basically if I turn off01:02:52
this01:02:53
page turn effect it's just still waiting01:02:56
for this keyframe to hit and then it'll01:02:58
play the animation that we have from01:03:00
that first frame so it's a good way if01:03:03
you just need to extend it rather than01:03:05
going in you could go in and just do01:03:07
move them all across and do it that way01:03:09
but sometimes the time remap is a handy01:03:12
little trick to do that a bit quicker01:03:14
so let's turn our page turn back on01:03:18
again and see what this looks like now01:03:21
oh yeah01:03:24
cool I'm just gonna you know we love an01:03:27
offset let's offset the scale a little01:03:29
bit01:03:30
happy with that and then because this is01:03:33
a vintage logo and you know we we like01:03:37
vintage effects let's add an adjustment01:03:40
layer to the top of all of this and01:03:43
we're going to put a posterize Time on01:03:47
top of this01:03:48
which allows us to control the frame01:03:51
rate separately so01:03:52
you know in this project you probably01:03:54
could just set the frame rate of this01:03:57
comp to 12.5 but you kind of get a bit01:04:00
more control with the posterize time and01:04:02
you can still export this comp then at01:04:05
25 frames per second for Instagram or01:04:07
something like that so yeah posterize01:04:09
time kind of keeps it as an effect01:04:11
rather than the actual frame rate so01:04:14
let's make this 1201:04:16
0.501:04:18
and now01:04:19
we're only seeing you know every 12 and01:04:22
a half frames rather than the full 2501:04:24
which gives us this kind of sweet01:04:26
vintage look01:04:29
and that's it01:04:31
so there we go we've just seen how01:04:33
easily we can create a sticker in01:04:35
illustrator making sure that we're01:04:36
thinking about how we layer our design01:04:38
knowing that we're going to be animating01:04:40
it down the line and then we saw how01:04:42
simple it is to bring it over to after01:04:44
effects to give it some real zest I hope01:04:46
you enjoyed this course let me know in01:04:48
the comments what kind of work you're01:04:49
doing and if you have any tips or tricks01:04:52
for how to do that round trip from01:04:54
illustrator to After Effects I'd love to01:04:56
hear about what you're working on till01:04:58
next time stay fresh01:05:02
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This feature is available in the UDL Helper extension. Make sure that "Show the video snapshot button" is checked in the settings. A camera icon should appear in the lower right corner of the player to the left of the "Settings" icon. When you click on it, the current frame from the video will be saved to your computer in JPEG format.
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