About this Class

Learn how to best export your animation as a GIF, whether you are on Windows or Mac OS, using Adobe After Effects and Adobe Media encoder. There are many ways to create a GIF and even more limitations when it comes to posting it on social media.

In this class, I'll go through the process of creating encoding presets, you can use to render out your GIF, what to look out for regarding duration, social media platform and GIF format limitations!

This class will enhance your understanding of the Animated GIF Format, social media requirements and frame rates sizes. I will cover techniques from setting up your work area, to exporting your animation to different formats. You will learn some animation basics, using frame rates to your advantage, file and naming structures – and how this will improve your animations.

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ENROL ON UDEMY

ENROL ON CG CIRCUIT

Why You Should Enrol

Build the core skills everything else relies on.
You’ll move beyond simple motion and start animating full scenes, characters, and shape-driven sequences with confidence.

With workflow fundamentals locked in, we can focus on pure animation craft.

ENROL ON SKILLSHARE

ENROL ON UDEMY

ENROL ON CG CIRCUIT

What You'll Learn

Setting-up Illustrator

I'll show you how to prepare your Illustrator file, with the After Effects animation in mind.

Setting-up After Effects

We will import our scene from Illustrator, into After Effects and prepare our compositions for efficient animation.

Animation & Expressions

I'll show you some useful expressions to automate your animations and make your life easier.

Creating Motion Paths

I'll go through the steps of linking properties from multiple layers, across different compositions, to a motion path.

Exporting Animation

I'll show you the simple process of getting your animation social media ready and how to render out a GIF

What You'll Do

You will animate a looping scene that you can share online! You will write expressions, use the pick whip tool and use slider controls. I will show you the process of a precise and efficient workflow to to get you animating faster and cleaner.

Materials & Resources

You will not need any other software to create this animation apart from Adobe After Effects and Media Encoder.

ENROL ON SKILLSHARE

ENROL ON UDEMY

ENROL ON CG CIRCUIT

SONJA GERACSEK | MOTION DESIGN

About this Class

Why You Should Enrol

Build the core skills everything else relies on.You’ll move beyond simple motion and start animating full scenes, characters, and shape-driven sequences with confidence.With workflow fundamentals locked in, we can focus on pure animation craft.

What You'll Learn

Setting-up Illustrator

Setting-up After Effects

Animation & Expressions

Creating Motion Paths

Exporting Animation

What You'll Do

Materials & Resources

Build the core skills everything else relies on.
You’ll move beyond simple motion and start animating full scenes, characters, and shape-driven sequences with confidence.

With workflow fundamentals locked in, we can focus on pure animation craft.