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Recent Study Materials - After Effects and Painting!

Added 2020-07-29 04:16:30 +0000 UTC

Hey guys! So, the lack of art has been for a push mostly in teaching myself new things (Seen my new overlays and the effects here on my Patreon Banner? Like that!) . My work has had me doing a lot more in After Effects, and then off work hours I've been trying to absorb some videos of other artists to nail down something I feel like a lot of you are use to having: getting lost in your art and committing too soon!

So, here's my recent study materials, and also free or very cheap items for you to pick up.. well, whatever you want out of this!

AFTER EFFECTS INFORMATION:

I recently found Black Mixture while searching in-depth for more fast-paced plugins for AE (and just super powerful awesomeness, anyways). Being a community manager and content creator for my job, sometimes I have to be extremely fast paced and that turn around can be detrimental if I have to hand animate everything. He breaks down a TON of videos from paid, free, and a mixture of MOST NEEDED AE plugins that will help you with graphic design and motion graphic works. Along with that, here's some other videos I frequent for some super cool effects to create for intermediate understanding of AE!

AFTER EFFECTS ITEMS:

Not much to go into details on this once except... PLUG-IN DOWNLOADS! Most of this is explained in Black Mixture's videos above, but I'm linking some of my personal favorite ones I've started dabbling with! More specifically.. if you're brand new to AE and need simple animations and compositions going, Mister Horse is an absolute must. Everything else is SUPER cool or useful resourcing!

PAINTING INFORMATION:

A lot of my recent painting dives have actually been from this artist named Marc Brunet. (Thank you for the hot tip, BravoRay!) Why? His videos are pretty informative without being too long, he's well spoken, and it's a more intermediate level break down of information - including, more importantly, PROCESS. I've found I get lost and freak out about 1.) how long my art takes me and 2.) what do I work on next?! I get lost in my values sometimes, or the values get muddled in painting, my colors get lost, etc. Using gray scale/values alone was making it hard for me to put vibrancy back in... the list goes on.

Marc has effectively, with the first video, shown his process and broken it down into 3 key itemization that you can "stop" your pieces at any time, but for me, helping recognize how I PERSONALLY am thinking about my art, which is in stages. It might help you out, as well!

The final link is a master list of Vampbyte's amazing Clip Studio Paint tutorials and MORE— SUPER worth learning and a massive guide list!

PAINTING ITEMS:

I've recently been diving into Clip Paint Studio and Procreate, and just getting comfortable with my normal workflow from Photoshop CC. I, personally, love the brush sets way more and there's a TON of resources both free and mildly paid for that will really help you depending on your flow. Hopefully you'll find something you love, too. For Clip Paint, the 800+ brushes from Frenden for 15 dollars is SO WORTH YOUR MONEY. There's inking, painting, watercolors, sketching, you name it. The Jingsketch brushes I used for the entirety of making The 2020 Postcard I sent to everyone, so if you liked the look of that, DEFINITELY worth the price here.