Due Week Two
Inspirational blog post
- create a personal blog and email the link
- inspirational blog post (something inspiring or helpful to you)
Personal Presentation
- a brief presentation of your own interests, artwork, or creative research
- anything that lets me know who you are and what you enjoy
Project One Concept
- a half page write up of your ideas for project one
- include relevant media if needed to get your idea across
- this will be discussed in class and revised (not a final draft)
Finish Exercise One Animation
- 15 to 30 seconds
- 1 background element
- 2 foreground elements
- one "character" composed of 5 layers parented together
- utilize easy-ease (right click keyframe and choose easy-ease)
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Topics Discussed Week One
- Syllabus
- Overview of Class Projects
- Intro to After Effects layout and workflow
- Project Panel - view all project media and compositions
- Importing elements into AE
- Adding elements to Compositions
- Elements within compositions (Layers) are manipulated in the Timeline Panel
- Animation of layers
- Viewing the animation in the Composition Panel
- Playhead - Current moment in time
- Adding effects from Effects and Presents Panel
- Space bar to start or stop the standard preview, or press play in the preview panel (gives you a gist, a general idea, but often not full speed playback)
- RAM preview [0 on number pad] or arrow button with three vertical bars in preview panel (full real time preview with audio)
- Move frame by frame using [page up and page down, or command right & Left]
- Can click and drag layers horizontally within the timeline
- To see the timeline in greater detail, drag the slider, (tiny to big mountains)
- Can select multiple layers by holding shift and effect them globally
- Animation - Keyframing - Changing Values over Time
- Each layer has a series of settings - open up by clicking triangle
- Open specific layer property with keyboard shortcut (p, s, r, a, t)
- click the Stopwatch to begin adding keyframes (subsequent changes to properties will add a keyframe at the current time)
- Can jump between keyframes [J or K]
- BE SURE you are directly on a key frame when you change the value, it is very easy and common to put a new keyframe directly next to the one you are trying to change.
- Adding a new one manually by clicking the diamond
- Clicking the stopwatch again will delete ALL keyframes for that property
- Manipulating properties directly in by dragging elements within the composition panel.
- Rendering - output to quicktime file - Render Queue
- Docking Panels, Drop Zones, and customizing AE layout
- Nesting Composition within other Compositions - Pre-Compose [command - shift - C]
- Parenting Layers - hierarchies of layers effecting other layers - using the Pickwhip
- ** Easy Ease **
- Puppet tool
