Anecdote below, if you want to skip, jump to “Making this animated gif”.
When we hopefully Covid gets under control this year, I hope when we rebuild that we consider if we really do want to go back to same-old same-old. Maybe we can find a way to let the earth recover from our over-consumption and dirty industry.
I don’t want to get too into politics in this post, so I’ll just say this: I’ve needed to commute to work an hour each way every day for the past five years. (My workplace does not view telework favourably, despite saying one of their top values are climate action.) I drive through a city/municipality that doesn’t belong to me every day, one that’s policy seems to be cut down all available forest and replace it with ugly commerce/industry. I’ve watched forest after forest disappear. I’ve watched a beautiful mature one be replaced with an RV sales lot. Think about that for a moment. Nearby is land that had no forest, a patch of concrete, sitting empty for years.
The animals there are taking more risks now, because they have no choice. We see them in dangerous places we didn’t see them before. We say super natural British Columbia, but how are we actually protecting biodiversity here?
I don’t know how to have a voice when the system seems intent on making it impossible, but I’ll keep trying. One success we had this year was that our government included continuing carbon pricing in their future plans, but that doesn’t nearly cover the scope of the issues the earth’s ecosystems are facing. /End of mini rant.
Start here: Making this animated gif:
When I was randomly skimming Skillshare under After Effects a course tagging Procreate and After Effects came up. Why would you use After Effects with Procreate when procreate has Animation Assist I asked myself? For those familiar, you can do frame-by-frame animation in Procreate and it’s pretty good and handy.
Reasons why you might use After effects:
you want to loop animations without drawing them (see the steam above)
you want to animate textures on the entire image more quickly (see the concrete 20% opacity texture across the entire video above)
As mentioned before, you want to do camera tricks, more easily handle fonts, etc (not shown here).
Can you think of more? Comment below. I’m new to this community and would love to learn as much as I can.
Looking to take the course I mentioned above? Here’s a link. (I’m not sponsored.)
Jess
