The first step was to take high resolution pictures of the the art work that the Illustrator provided me.
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I went over the artwork in Photoshop and then used a
water texture brush to create a watercolor look on the geese.
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Once the geese were created, I brought the Photoshop files into
After Effects and rigged them for movement then started animating.
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