Week 10 : 25 Oct 2021 - 31 Oct 2021
Tan Yi Yun0345559
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Group A (Mr. Fauzi)
Week 10
LECTURE
Intro to After Effects
What is After Effects?
Adobe After Effects is a 2.5D animation software used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture compositing. This software is used in the post-production phase, and has hundreds of effects that can be used to manipulate imagery. This allows you to combine layers of video and images into the same scene.
Adobe After Effects takes a different approach for creating movement. Motion graphics animation works by manipulating vector and rasterized art to create and tell a story. You can integrate physical based media as well through photographs and videography.
Pre-compositing in Photoshop
Photoshop is a platform to compositing the layers. All the layers need to be arrange and rename accordingly so that it will be organize and easy to be animated in After Effects.
Pre-compositing in After Effects
Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application. We can import elements such as images, video, vector and more into After Effects. All the layer elements need to be organized and synchronized to the external software platforms such as Photoshop & Illustrator.
*Do note that After Effects files does not embed its media, it links to it.
TUTORIAL
During this session, Mr. Fauzi provided us some demo videos. Mr. Fauzi also did a live demonstration in class to enhance our understanding.
Video tutorial of Kinetic Typography
PRACTICAL
We are given a task to animate a composition (provided as Photoshop file) in Adobe After Effects. This is my first time animate in AE and I am pretty excited about it.
After watching the video tutorials, I followed the steps by importing the Photoshop layers into After Effects. Then, I can play with the keyframes to adjust the objects' size, opacity, position and anchor point.
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| Figure 1.1, Importing Photoshop layers into After Effects, Week 10 (27/10/2021) |
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| Figure 1.2, Progress of animating different layers, Week 10 (27/10/2021) |
The last step is to export the 15 seconds video and publish on YouTube.
Final Outcome
Final outcome for this week's exercise, Week 10 (28/10/2021)