From the course: After Effects CC 2021: Character Animation Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Artwork tips and tricks

Artwork tips and tricks - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects CC 2021: Character Animation Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Artwork tips and tricks

- [Instructor] Here in this movie, we'll talk about some tips and tricks that will make working with your artwork in After Effects much more efficient. If you're not aware, After Effects has a vibrant community of third-party toolmakers that extend the functionality of After Effects. One of those companies is Battle Axe. They make a third-party tool called Overlord, and here on their site they describe Overlord as a mystical shape portal between Illustrator and After Effects. Let's take a brief look at it. Once you have it installed inside of Illustrator and After Effect, you'll find it under window, extensions, Overlord. And this little panel allows you to push and pull these different shapes from After Effects and Illustrator. Previously, we'd said that After Effects only looks at top level layers, so in this example I have all of this artwork underneath one layer, and if I were to bring this into After Effects,…

Contents