• Adobe After Effects

  Animating a PSD drawing in AE

  Posted by Mel Ruiz on August 10, 2017 at 4:45 pm

  I’ve done some illustrations in PS just using brush strokes. I’m comfortable working from PS and AI to AE; however, I’m stuck at how best to animated my sketches now. Is there any workflow that will allow me to, for instance, convert my PSD layers into shapes in AE that I can say apply a wiggle effect to?

  Basically, I’m trying to figure out how best (or how possible) to get my drawing lines to move around slightly, or wiggle, in AE. I usually do this using .ai files and converting to shape layers. But I had to work in PS to have access to all the brushes and make it look the way I wanted. Plus, I’m much more comfortable working in PS than AI. Maybe I have to do it entirely differently, say using a turbulent displacement effect on the psd layers?

  Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

  Walter Soyka replied 8 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Henry Wiesner

  August 11, 2017 at 8:50 am

  Hi Mel, i think i have a simple solution to your question!

  I recently did an animation course and we were animating in Photoshop, we used the timeline menu (window).
  you can warp your image or even redraw if you want to spend a bit of time on it, im sure with your prior knowledge you coould achieve a nice animation. 🙂

  you can also export like in premier from PS to suitable filetype
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  Walter Soyka

  August 11, 2017 at 2:17 pm

  Give the Puppet tool a try:
  https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/animating-puppet-tools.html

  Walter Soyka
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