With all these videos of animated album art lately, it's making me wonder how they're made. Can anyone explain it to me please? Also the song is pretty killer.

Written by Absak on 29.11.2014 at 12:08

With all these videos of animated album art lately, it's making me wonder how they're made. Can anyone explain it to me please? Also the song is pretty killer.

Well I don't know if it the case here, but in my school they taught a "quick" and "easy" way to animate images with After Effects. Instead of really making a video you actually just manipulate single bits of the image and create the illusion of animation. That's why you never see the limbs of the characters do a drastic movement, most of the time they just slide. First you have to decompose the art you want to animate in layers, everything you want to see moving has to be isolated in a single layer on Photoshop, then you export the whole thing to After Effects, make each thing do the movement you want on a certain number of frames (24 frames/second) and apply additional effects.