hello and welcome. In this tutorial, I want to show you how to create cartoon animation in a fast and easy way. This tutorial is suitable for beginners. You can download your vector files from anywhere, but I'm downloading Vector files from freep.com. First, I start with the background design. Open the AI file with Adobe Illustrator and ungroup the design. For animation in Adobe After Effects, you need a layer for each part of your design. To achieve this, simply cut and paste each part of your design into a new layer. Now, I have added a new character to the scene. The best way to do this is to create a new illustrator file. Open your design in the new file and separate layers for the eyes of the character, mouth, and more. Make a new layer for each part you want to animate and save the file as an AI file. Repeat this process for other characters. Don't forget that AI files must be the same dimensions. In this tutorial, my dimensions are 1920 by 1080. If your design follows the same path, you need to change the path of the

layer. Simply select the direct selection tool and select paths. With the pen tool, add a new path to the design. Now you can cut the design to a new layer. After that, select two paths, right-click, and select join. Now we are ready to go to After Effects. Make a new comp with the same dimensions you saved the Illustrator files with. Drag and drop add a background file to After Effects, making sure the input kind is set as composition. Then add the first character to the scene. Cut the character comp and paste it to the background layer because we need to put the character behind the desk. You can start the animation as you want. I'm starting the animation with the background layer. Just add the anchor point to the top of the design and make a rotation animation for the chandelier to make a loop animation. After adding keyframes, hold the Alt button, right-click on the watch icon, type Loop, and find Loop out. You just need to remember the word Loop to animate the character. First, make a blinking animation for the character's eyes.

select the eyes. Enable the watch icon for scale. Use page down and page up buttons to change frames. Add three key frames. Select the middle key frames and disable the chain icon next to the scale Dimension to create the cartoon blink effect for eyes. For smooth animation, select all key frames and hit the F9 button for easy ease. Add the loop expression. For a better look, just copy the first key frame and paste it around 2 seconds. For mouth animation, the best and easiest way for beginners is scale animation. Select the layer and press the S on the keyboard to enable scale. Make key frames accordingly. You can select all key frames and hold the alt button to change the gap between the key frames for faster animation. Animate all layers like other parts to draw more attention. Add a puppet pin on the character comp. Add pins and press the U button to view the pin's key frames. Now add a new character but this time create a new style of blinking animation. Create an ellipse exactly on the eye of the parrot. Duplicate the ellipse to make a mask.

add track mat for shape layer. [Music] One, change the scale of the shape layer. Two, shape layer 2 is the mask. Add animation for the mask layer and you're done. Select all layers of the parrot and move the layers to the new comp. Now add puppet pins. Again, you can use the same technique for the dog character. Add a new character and animate it as you want. Don't forget to animate more parts to draw more attention. As a beginner, you can start with this level of animation. To support the channel, subscribe to this channel and hit the like button. Have a good [Music] day.

After Effects Cartoon Animation Tutorial for Beginners

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After Effects Cartoon Animation Tutorial for Beginners

After Effects Cartoon Animation Tutorial for Beginners

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