From the course: Motion Graphics Loops: 1 Photoshop Techniques
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Exporting for After Effects
From the course: Motion Graphics Loops: 1 Photoshop Techniques
Exporting for After Effects
- [Voiceover] Some animators prefer to export image sequences from Photoshop rather than video files. This helps avoid the possibility of dropped animation frames. Also, at times, you might create individual animated elements that you plan on completing or compositing together in a program like After Effects. Why would you do this? Well, After Effects can streamline compositing and has many various features, and abilities that just aren't practical in Photoshop. Though, Photoshop is great for this traditional hand drawn animation style. Anywho, let's go over how to render an image sequence from Photoshop so it can be imported as footage into Adobe After Effects. For this, we'll just render out the bouncy ball element all on it's own over an alpha channel. So, you can get an idea of some of the various Photoshop rendering options. Then, we'll follow that up by bringing the entire Photoshop file into After Effects, as separate editable layers. I'll start by going into the layer menu…
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