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Planning the animation

Planning the animation

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Planning the animation

- [Instructor] There is a saying that if something doesn't look good when it is stationary, there is no chance that it will work as an animation. So the first and the most important task is to invest in the design stage using Photoshop or maybe Illustrator before the animation stage in AfterEffects. To save some time, I did it beforehand, and created a design based on the brief that the customer sent. So, if you like to follow along, go ahead and open up AfterEffects, then go to the File menu and choose Open Project. I'm going to navigate to the Project Files folder, and I'm going to open up Wimbledon Interlude.aep. Before we begin, I would like to share with you the instructions that came in this brief. I usually show the final result at the beginning of each course, but this time I want to walk you through the process of developing a project from start to end. So we'll start by exploring the design, and then I'm going to walk you through my plan of the animation. So I'm going to…

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