Animate Your Watercolor Illustrations with Photoshop and After Effects

Elevate your artwork! Learn to bring your watercolor paintings and colored pencil drawings to life with dynamic movement. This course is perfect for illustrators, designers, and visual arts students looking to add animation to their creations. Whether you're a beginner or have some experience, discover how to create captivating moving illustrations and shareable animated GIFs.

Specifically designed for animators and animation students, this class explores painting animation techniques, allowing you to experiment with a unique approach to bringing your drawings to life.

What you'll learn:

• Simple animation movements: Master the fundamentals of creating fluid and engaging motion.
• Video & GIF creation: Learn to quickly produce high-quality video and GIF files of your animated artwork.
• Bring your art to life: Transform static paintings and drawings into dynamic, eye-catching animations.

Who is this course for?

• Illustrators seeking to expand their skillset.
• Designers wanting to add motion graphics to their projects.
• Visual arts students exploring new creative avenues.
• Animators looking for painting-based animation techniques.
• Anyone with basic drawing skills and a foundational understanding of Adobe Photoshop.

Required Materials:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe After Effects
• Drawing & painting materials (watercolor paints, colored pencils, etc.)
• Animation paper
• Watercolor paper
• Lightbox or lightpad
• Scanner

By the end of this course, you will:

• Have created an original moving illustration.
• Possess a unique animation style to showcase your artistic talent.
• Be able to share your work on social media, in online galleries, and at film festivals.
• Develop a portfolio piece suitable for future animated films and GIFs.