From Storyboard to Motion 

That's great news. I'm glad the channel helps :)

Glad to hear it. Several years later I'm still really proud of what we accomplished with this series.

Fantastic! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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You are very welcome! I'm glad to hear it!

Thanks! I'm so happy when people find it useful.

Well, thank you very much. I'm glad you continue to enjoy the channel!

@@ECAbrams I always do, even I am not all the time able to see your tutorials when posted.

@@CatalinGulan Oh interesting. Is youtube not giving you notifications?

@@ECAbrams No..no not at all..it is about my lack of time...but I do not want to miss them..for nothing in the world! ❤

I try to keep it clean around here ;)

That's quite a lot of Qs. I'll see if I can A them. 1.I work for all kinds of customers. But any project you do should make use of pre-production. It actually takes less time when you plan effectively before you start doing things. Even just an hour or two to know what you're doing is better than nothing. It also prevents cost overrun. 2. I bill out depending on the client and project. For some a day rate makes sense. Some need it as an hourly breakdown. Others are a flat fee for the deliverables. It works out to the same for my time in the end. 3. I do work freelance for clients and I do own my own business. It has one employee who is me. I'm also all the other parts of that business. 4. I'm glad you like the videos. If you have more questions holler at me.

@@ECAbrams Lovin' it! Thanks! :D

Interesting. Are you working from large moves and layering on detail? Working sequentially? How do you attack a large piece when you move from pre-production currently?

Currently I try to move from drawings to getting the rough motions in after effects, then doing color and secondary motions and all that stuff after. I feel like I’m most likely to give up if I can’t get the scene’s primary motion looking how I like, but I think a lot of the times when I stick with it the secondary motions, color and sound effects help sell things.

@@NateandNoahTryLife So is it lack of personal interest in the project or scene? Do you feel uninspired once you start in on a scene? That could mean you should be doing something different and throwing away ideas that don't work, rather than forcing ideas that are just filling time.

ECAbrams yeah, that sounds about right! I guess I’ll spend more time on the drawing board. Thank you!

Often if you find scenes aren't working I advise going even further back in the process and seeing is a scene can be removed or edited down. I often find areas of "filler" just need to go completely rather than be struggled through or "fixed" at the end of the process. I hope that helps!

It's a combination of both. It really depends on what will happen with the assets later. This piece also has very simple geometry so we can make many things in Ae very fast. Typically though I make at least the first version of a thing in illustrator. It may be broken apart or recreated in Ae during production.

@@ECAbrams thank you 👍😍 . I was so confused about this.

There are specific colour rules that are worth exploring. Complementary colours, harmonies, contrast. Those kinds of rules can help you build a palette. But typically there is an intention behind colour choice. Rather than what looks nice, we want to choose colours that satisfy our goals for a piece. If that makes sense?

I drew these in Adobe Illustrator. Is that what you mean?

@@ECAbrams yes But I unable to repeat what you did. In the video you have exported PNG files from Illustrator and then imported these PNG to After effects. Then these files are not vectors anymore.

@@tzachikk I'm not sure I'm following you. I did not intend for people to copy the example piece by piece to generate the exact animation. This is meant to teach a process so you can create your own unique works.

@@ECAbrams First thank you for taking the time to help. That's impressive. Secondaly, im not intresseted in copiying your piece - it's the process. In 03:22 you imported pngs and put them into a scene (03:30). Then in 07:03 you have opended this scene and there were shape layers instaed for the imported png. Did I miss something? Where did you exchange the png in the scene with shape layers?

@@tzachikk In after effects you can import a .ai file and convert the vector assets into vector shape layers. I didn't show it in this video because that process is not integral to what is being shown. Many user might not even be storyboarding with vector programs. And, even if they are, converting the paths from Ai to Ae may not be the ideal method for animating the scenes. Most often we have to recreate the content of a storyboard inside after effects using other methods to create the desired style and movement because storyboards are usually very rough sketches. But, if you would like to import a .ai file, the layers can be converted by right clicking and selecting create > create shapes from vector layer. I hope that helps.

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