How To Import And Animate 3d Ojct In After Effect

Vector Blitheness – Animate in After Effects

Download .ai Tutorial File

If needed, download this Adobe Illustrator tutorial file again. This is the same file you downloaded before during the layer prep tutorial.

OPTIONAL: Follow along with my videos and utilize the tutorial file to practice the same piece of work yourself. Or, just watch and then spring correct in and create your ain video using what you need from my tutorials.

Import your layered Illustrator file into After Effects

In Afterward Effects
File > Import > File…

Cull your .ai file and use these settings:
Import As: Composition – Retain Layer Sizes

You can likewise drag your file into the After Furnishings projection window

This window will pop upwards. Select Composition and Layer Size

Your project window will look like this:

Relieve your new Afterward Effects file.

Add together layers to the timeline

Since you already created a new composition when you imported your .ai file, simply double-click the limerick file icon (not the folder) in your project window. This will add together layers to the animation timeline. Similar this:

Observe how the layer names and gild are maintained. All the time yous spent prepping your layers and names was worth it.

Adding new Illustrator layers
(once you've imported your layered .ai file)

Sometimes I demand to add a layer or adjust my layers in my original Illustrator file and import those new layers. Here is the all-time way I've found to do this.

File > Import Recent Footage > (select your current Illustrator file)
Import Kind: Footage
Layer Options – Choose Layer: (cull the layer you want to add)
Footage Dimensions: Layer Size
Okay

This will add a dissever file to your Project panel. Drag it into the list of layers in your timeline. That'southward it. Now you can breathing the new layer.

Set up composition settings

Video Tutorials to give you some new Afterward Effects skills

These tutorials will walk you through part of my workflow for the ReStore vector animated video. The Restore video introduces you to vector animation where you begin with a cartoon in Illustrator and then animate it in Afterwards Effects.

These videos will likewise build on your knowledge gained from the orchard video where you lot learned the basics of fading in-and-out transitions, object movement, scaling motion, cartoon objects, and adding type.

Play these videos over as many times every bit you demand to understand each effect.

Rotate & Bounciness an Object (5:44)

This video shows how I rotated and bounced an object in Later on Effects.

Slide and Compress/Bounce an Object (5:27)

This video shows how I slide and shrink/bounce an object in Afterwards Effects.

Vector Drawing Basics (eleven:31)

Draw an Blithe Line (10:30)

This video shows how I drew an animated line in Afterwards Effects.

Vector cartoon from Illustrator into After Effects (4:58)

Animate a Waving Paw (vi:00)

This video shows how to create an animated waving hand in After Effects

Timeline & Keyframe Tips & Tricks (5:07)

This video will bear witness you a few tips and tricks to speed upward your animation in Afterwards Furnishings.

Make a Transparent Gradient
6:05

Depict and Change Custom Vector Shapes
7:47

How to relink lost footage in After Effects (A mutual problem)

Typewriter Outcome (four:43)

This video shows how to add a typewriter outcome to your text in After Effects.

This concluding stride is what makes your last video. It will render a .mp4 format that yous can use almost anywhere:

In one case your file is set to render:

File > Export > Add To Adobe Media Encoder Que…
Be patience, this may take a few seconds.
This window will open:

In the upper correct pane, make sure H.264 is selected
Under Preset, select Lucifer Source – Loftier Bitrate
And then click on Match Source – High Bitrate
The window below will pop upward. Enter or double-bank check the settings marked below.