You're reading from Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects Learn the ins and outs of motion graphics, post-production, rotoscoping, and VFX

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804617281

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

After Effects

Concepts

Motion Graphics

Author (1):

Vishu Aggarwal

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Working with Motion Graphics

2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know the User Interface and Workflow FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Applying Effects and Presets to Create Animated Graphics

4. Chapter 3: Deep-Dive into Text Animations

5. Chapter 4: Animating Shape Layers

6. Chapter 5: Adding Motion to Photoshop and Illustrator Graphics

7. Chapter 6: Creating Motion Graphic Templates for Premiere Pro

8. Part 2: Post-Production and Visual Effects

9. Chapter 7: Color Correction and Color Grading

10. Chapter 8: Rotoscoping and Mask Tracking Techniques

11. Chapter 9: Chroma Keying

12. Chapter 10: Working with Particle Simulations

13. Part 3: 2D and 3D Tracking, and Rendering

14. Chapter 11: Working with 2D and 3D Tracking

15. Chapter 12: Exporting and Managing Projects

16. Index

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Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files

In this section, we will look into how to import the layered files of Illustrator and Photoshop in After Effects and convert them into a composition in After Effects, allowing individual layers to be animated.

Importing Illustrator files

Before we start working on shape layers and tools, let us create a new project and import the Illustrator file, as follows:

Go to File | New | New project.
Then, double-click in the Project window to open the import window, or go to File | Import | File….
Select the workout.ai file from the project file in the footage folder.
Keep the import options as the default, and then click Open:

Figure 5.2: The import options settings

Now, a pop-up window will appear for the import options. This appears whenever an Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop file is imported in After Effects, but only if you import a single file at a time.