Hand Tool

                                 

                                                  Hand Draw Tool


                Many of us would love to create a hand-drawn animation that’s made from scratch – with love and a lot of pencil or pen strokes – but sometimes there’s just no time for that. But I really don’t have to because I have an creative process that rolls from Adobe Illustrator to After Effects workflow that works great for animation.The end result will have the rough feel of cel animation – but you’ll be able to concentrate more time on bringing out your characters and storytelling in your animation.In this tutorial, we’re going to learn a little about how to set up your drawing in Illustrator and then how to set up the layers, keys and expressions for getting that hand-drawn look.If you want to see more on how to create these types of Illustrations, you’ll see many of the same techniques in this Illustrator course, and lots of the same animation approaches in this After Effects tutorial.
Step: 1
Let’s start in Illustrator, creating a central character – in my case a bee – and a series of circles for the background.. Make sure your characters and other elements have both strokes and fills – even if it’s a black fill with a black stroke. This will give you the maximum ‘hand-drawn’ effect later.
Step: 2
Draw everything on one layer at the beginning. When you’re all done, group them, select the group but don’t target it. Still in the Layers panel, click on the the hamburger menu and choose Release to Layers (Build).
Step: 3
Next, open After Effects and import your Illustrator file. In the Imports As: dropdown, change Footage to Composition - Retain Layer Sizes. This will allow you to have access to all the layers and animate them all!.
Step: 4
I want to start by creating and animating the background, which is primarily made of dots. Create a new composition called ‘dot’ and copy and paste your circles from your main composition.I made this layer small so I could just duplicate it a few times and use instances rather than many individual layers. I do want to animate each dot within the smaller group though.Start by selecting all the dots in the small group and then right click on them and select Create Shapes from Vector Layer.
Step: 5
Select one of the shapes. Toggle down the layer and look for the Add fly-out menu. Choose Wiggle Paths from the list.For a dot of moderate size, I turned the Size parameter down to This will vary greatly depending on how big or small of a scale your drawing was done at.
Step: 6
Increase your number of wiggles per second to 10.0. They need to look fast enough to look like individual frames but not so fast that they lose their rough charm You may need to make some adjustments depending on how greatly your shapes vary in scale from one to the next hand-drawn, wiggly goodness.



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