The ability to animate artwork from Adobe Illustrator is key to creating beautifully designed animations. This lesson of the After Effects Fundamentals series, covers the ins and outs of preparing your Illustrator artwork, and then importing, making changes, and animating it in After Effects. In this video: 0:36 Prepare Illustrator Artwork 9:57 Save Illustrator File 10:29 Import Illustrator File into After Effects 13:49 Animate Illustrator Layers 16:23 Making Changes to AI Artwork 21:24 Convert to Shape Layer 23:07 Overlord ➡️ Check out the visual notes that accompany this video to help you quickly remember how to do something in After Effects: https://www.meganfriesth.com/AEfundamentals/illustrator ➡️ Learn more about illustrating artwork in Adobe Illustrator and animating it in After Effects in my class, Create then Animate: https://www.meganfriesth.com/class/create ➡️ The Overlord After Effects extension I talk about at 23:07: https://battleaxe.co/?ref=animationexplained My website: https://www.animationexplained.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animationexplained Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/explanimated/ Get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://www.skillshare.com/animationexplained The Overlord link is an affiliate link. I get a small cut of the sale at no additional cost to you. This helps me create more content for you. I promise that I would still recommend Overlord even if I didn’t make a penny; it’s a tool I use myself!