Easy hack for using After Effects for better hand-drawn Animation (workflow)

Learn my workflow to improve your hand-drawn animations. I'll show you how to use After Effects to make your process of animating frame by frame more accurate.

Frame by frame animation can be intimidating. If you've ever attempted to take the plunge into traditional animation, you know how difficult it can be. When I first started dipping my toes in frame by frame animation, I struggled with was ease in/ease out and timing ( the number of frames an action should take.)

It just wasn't as intuitive as the graph editor in Adobe After Effects. So I developed my own work flow that allows me to take advantage of the graph editor in After Effects to guide me in my traditional animations.

That way when I am drawing frame by frame, I'm reducing the amount of brainpower. All I have to do is focus on the drawing, and After Effects takes care of the spacing and easing. Doing things this way has opened up the possibility of many more dynamic 2D animations.

In this video, I use Rough Animator which is an App you can get on the iPad Pro. However, this workflow will work with any animation software that can import video and export PNG sequences.

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