Illustrator to After Effects Relation-tips – Joker Vector Animation

Illustrator to After Effects Relation-tips – Joker Vector Animation

on Nov 14th 2012 with 20 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and Illustrator
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 24:23 min

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

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This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Batman Revised

Batman Revised

Welcome to the second of this four part series of Batman Revised. In this episode, we will show you several tricks for making the most of the basic 3D options After Effects provides.

We will look at how the Joker section was created and how you can make the different elements appear in your animation, giving them cool effects and playing with them until they look perfect. We will revise some effects previously worked with and we will unveil a couple other secrets as well. :)

Tutorial

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File size: 141.5 MB

Series Navigation«Illustrator to After Effects Relation-tips – Batman Vector AnimationIllustrator to After Effects Relation-tips – Two-Face Vector Animation»
 
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  • Kareem

    Hello :) i’m really in love with your work guys. Keep it up. I’m new to animation and after effects and i’m having a problem with your source file. Each time i open it i get this message “this project must be converted from version 10.5 (Macintosh 64) and will open as an untitled project” and there are like 74 files that are missing. I cannot see the project at all, can you please tell me what to do in order to view it properly?

    Thanks

    • BuhoGraphics
      Author

      Thank you Kareem, we love you love it. We will try to solve this problem in the following tutorials, and came out with projects supported by both Mac and PC.

  • Ensoul Media

    Thank you, you are awesome! :)

  • elektrix

    This is just awesome, truly. Kudos! I made this so far (did my own batman assets in Ai – of course much inspired/copied from yours).

    http://s30.beta.photobucket.com/user/cartoonsmart/media/animation-test.mp4.html

    Some things that I noticed in your final video/output: your final animation seems to go a lot faster than when I render mine, how come? Less frames between the key frames? Or higher frame rate in final output or what? Will you show us the final output/render settings? Also will you show us how you added the music?

    • BuhoGraphics
      Author

      Great work mate! Keep on like that!
      Now, once you have completed your animation you can adjust the time to any length you want. We couldn’t take longer than 10 seconds so we had to adjust to that time lenght. You can easily do that with the “Time Enable time remapping” option.
      We are thinking about a new tutorial focus on the sound for After Effects, Stay tuned!

  • Pirminus

    if you select all keyframes of a value and on your timeline exactly on a keyframe you can change the value and it automatically changes the exact same value for all other keyframes ;)

  • http://twitter.com/MicSeaton Mic Seaton

    This is great! My son totally loves batman, i’ll have to whip this up for his birthday party this weekend! oops i noticed one thing that is wrong, the police trucks say CGPD, isn’t it supposed to be GCPD (Gotham City Police Department)? Just checking…Great Job!!

    • BuhoGraphics
      Author

      Ooops! Thanks for that Mic!

      Happy birthday to your son!

  • oi-rad

    thank you man, you are great.
    Anyway i’d like to know how you get that morphing shape.

    • BuhoGraphics
      Author

      Thanks mate! If you are talking about how to change the bat shape and do a morphing between the background bat symbol and the Joker´s spade we have don this using a mask. You can create a solid and apply a mask for getting the bat shape. Once you get that, you can transform the mask path until get the spade shape. The more you adjust it, the better it will look. Anyway, we strongly encourage you to do your own versions and play with the several options.
      Don´t forget to send us the final versions!

  • Jake

    Whoa, wait a minute! The morphing on the Jokers face is waaayyyy different than Batmans. Can you show that as well?

    • BuhoGraphics
      Author

      We have done the very same steps in the Jokers face than in the Batman´s face, the bounce effect and the smooth effect. If you are talking about the transition from one character to the other, it was done with an animated mask simulating a liquid form. This mask is applied to the batman face, and we let that the joker face which is just behind, shows itself little by little. Hope we have help you! 

    • http://twitter.com/BenWubbleyou Ben Waardenburg

      The eye comes in using the effect Radial Wipe. Just set the position of the center to the middle and key frame the percentage. to 100%. He also does the size bounce as this is going. Hope this helps.

    • http://twitter.com/BenWubbleyou Ben Waardenburg

      You can use the Radial Wipe effect to get the eyes to come in the way they did, you can also use the size bounce to make it look nicer when adding them. The rest use masks and size bounces.

  • http://twitter.com/BenWubbleyou Ben Waardenburg

    Not gonna lie. I don’t like that you didn’t show the transition between batman and the Joker, but I think that is something we should be learning for ourselves, I’ll be back in a bit with a final version with both.

  • http://glenn.schnieders.be Glenn Schnieders

    Thanks for the awesome tutorial, but i’m wondering about the rendering of the cards. When you rotate the card on a angel the card flips back. And after a few keyframes it changes back. It is also visible at the tutorial at the right left bottom cards. So how can I change that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/chugun Aleksej Chugunov

    http://youtu.be/QmIIUnTGfKc I got really inspired from your tutorial, made animation about my friends :D

    • BuhoGraphics
      Author

      Good Work Aleksej, hope your friends loved the video.

      We like what you have done in Ensoul Media ;)

  • wondermarq

    I opened the project up in AE CS5 and it says 76 files are missing. The .zip file is missing the footage coin.ai, balance.ai. and the batman.ai (i know this is file is included in the part 1 tutorial, but stil) files. Joker files are missing too even though the .ai is included in the .zip. I tried reloading it, but the project file references joker~1.ai not joker.ai. Even tried renaming joker.ai to joker~1.ai but still does not work. Help please! Thanks! Loved the part 1 tutorial (I’m a big Batman fan), and I want to finish all of them!

    • wondermarq

      Nevermind! I got it to work!