How I Animate Vintage Illustrations

In this After Effects tutorial, I'm going to take you through my process of turning stock images into animated vintage illustrations.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Inspiration
1:00 Finding Images
2:25 Laying out the scene
3:14 Precomps
4:10 Details and Loop
5:30 Glitch
6:35 Texturing Paint Effect

[@seancaillouette]

wonderful tutorial Nick. Thanks for all the good work you do and teach! : )

[@brianleahyart]

Loved this one, really great to see the breakdown of it. Thank you!!

[@TinyMedicine]

Wow! Really impressive Nick! I also want to give it a try!

[@molly_1205]

Soooooooo beautiful! I love vintage botanicals, too! :-)

[@bastianrivero]

Looks amazing, but i still have no idea how to do this step by step 😂🥲

[@DragonyCat]

That's a whole nother video tbh. That video would take more than an hour or something. This one was just for showing us which steps he took, so way less detailed.

[@federicomarianofranco7083]

Awesome video! Congrats!

[@JonassaintStudios]

Awesome tutorial!!

[@1WillyDAVID]

really awesome, thanks for sharing bro

[@nabil_hamdani]

This is so cool 👏

[@daviddmotion]

Great tutorial!!

[@ciaranoc]

Try using the SLider Control effect to keyframe the strength of an expression on and off. Alternatively, you can use turbulent displacement or displacement map to distort certain elements which you can then keyframe the intensity, evolution or amount easily.

[@tf19518]

Love the glitch trick!

[@const6610]

i like this

[@alexplaysplaysplays]

I discovered Anubis through your links, Nick! It's saved me approximately 4 billion years of time and I used your code to get it for just $12. Yes! Thanks! Would love some more videos on plugins!

[@motionbynick]

Thanks! And will do!

[@AbdulVid]

god dammit Nick! I love your work!!

[@motionbynick]

[@NoPenta]

You can loop the wiggle to make it a seamless loop.

[@AtaurRaziq]

How so? The way I do it is linking it to a slider to animate intensity to 0 at beginning and end of loop

[@NoPenta]

@@AtaurRaziq
You could use this expression:
freq = 1;
amp = 110;
loopTime = 3;
t = time % loopTime;
wiggle1 = wiggle(freq, amp, 1, 0.5, t);
wiggle2 = wiggle(freq, amp, 1, 0.5, t - loopTime);
linear(t, 0, loopTime, wiggle1, wiggle2)

[@Tangomango1720]

Key knowledge

[@xDaShaanx]

Wow

[@alirezaaliyan8495]

thanks for your general tutorial
I was wondering if you could make a full tutorial about this stuff cause I really like what you've done
thanks again

[@motionbynick]

what specifically you would like to see more of?

[@acceptingseeking]

Where can I find that quick remove background? Nice videos btw. Just discovered you and I'm learning a lot thanks

[@thedanyrus]

I love your voice tone, you should swear more, maybe youtube won't censor more :v

[@CatalinGulan]

Wow..I mean Wow Nick! Amazing work and as always in what you do, very professional! Thank you very much for sharing! ❤ I do have a question if I am allowed: have you had in mind all the steps from the beginning, following a certain storyboard, or you developed it as long as you start working on it, improving and coming with ideas at certain stages! Thank you much in advance, and sorry if I am bothering you with such a question!

[@motionbynick]

i rarely plan things out. I just start with a general idea and vision, and then I like to develop projects while I'm working on them.

[@CatalinGulan]

@@motionbynick Thank you very much for your answer Nick! ❤ And again..thank you for sharing your very professional work!

[@Wathiek]

Hello i would like to know how do you make the leaves blowing in the wind

[@ohoiifilmmotiondesign4822]

such a tease! beautiful composition... can i ask how you did the butterfly, it looks like he’s spinning around after awhile , is it a 3D object?

[@motionbynick]

the wings are 2D, but flap in 3D. Then in the main comp, just wiggle around that butterfly comp and it looks like hes flying around. Make sure you click "continously rasterize" so those 3D wings stay 3D

[@ohoiifilmmotiondesign4822]

@@motionbynick thank you, Nick! 😅🤩

[@eladbari]

@8:34 - Does anyone have a lead how how to recreate this (newspaper) print effect in photoshop? The halftone effect doesn't fully cut it...

[@TheRudyroo71]

lol Tree of Life relates to Jewish mysticism but ok.