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As you work through the tutorials, you should watch a bit, pause the video and do, rewind if you need to and do again. When the video finishes, you should also have a completed example. You will need to post that example on your google site, include the url to the tutorial, what went well, what tools you learned. To post to your site, you will need to export the video file and upload it to your google drive. You can then add it to your site from your google drive.
We are going to get started using basic shapes in Adobe Aftereffects, by the end of the week we will be able to create something like this.
Please only watch the following:
https://vimeo.com/73715297The next five tutorials will take us five classes to complete. Some will go quicker than others, so please use your time wisely.
Getting familiar with the AE workspace and terms. Things to make note of:
the different panels (Project, Timeline, Comp, Effects)
keyframes, easy ease, opacity, transform
In this After Effects Tutorial you will learn the basic animation techniques for creating a variety of different shapes. These are specific shape animations that can be integrated with text or your very own logo. All shape animations are completely customisable and will greatly broaden your knowledge upon animation within After Effects.
SHAPE EDGES
SHAPE EDGES
In this video you will learn how to animate shape layers in Adobe After Effects. You will use the trim paths tool to create some neat shape layer animations!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHhg-DmkikAShape Layer Repeater (radial)
Shape Layer Repeater (radial)
Draw, animate, repeat. Always repeat. Draw, animate, repeat... The shape layer repeater is a powerful and excellent tool that you should for sure know about and exploit often to make amazing graphics quickly and cheaply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOZwzLgJw9oMotion Graphics Techniques
Motion Graphics Techniques
The techniques used in this tutorial will allow you to create exploding graphics, repeated objects, line animations, and duplicated objects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bnOVV3EBC8Here is another animation, that will give you some ideas on what you can do with theses skill. Watch Al Boardman’s beautiful film about Chicago.
Parenting is the process of setting up multiple layers so that the movement of one layer follows the movement of another layer. Please follow this tutorial to set up relationship.
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/animating-with-parenting.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_AFTEREFFECTS_1_1/learn-path:key-techniques/set-header:animating-essentials/playlist:topic/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com
What you learned: How to use parenting to animate multiple layers
Defining parenting
Parenting is the process of setting up multiple layers so that the movement of one layer follows the movement of another layer.
Set layer anchor points
To make sure a selected layer rotates around a specific point, select the Pan Behind tool and reposition the layer anchor point in the composition.
Use the pick whip to establish parent layers
Drag the pick whip for the child layer on top of the name of the layer you want to be the parent; then release.
Repeat setting parent layers for multiple layers to set up a chain of control.
Once you have three or more layers linked together, you can quickly create seemingly complex chains of animation where one layer follows another layer, which then follows yet another layer.
Set the visual hierarchy of the layers
Once the parent-child relationships are set up, change the layer stacking order by moving layers vertically in the timeline.
TIPS: How to center anchor points
Time to Explore: Check out the some options here to try next https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/tutorials.html
Kinetic Typography is one of the most entertaining projects in After Effects. There are so many possibilities with the layout, animation, and even font choice. In this After Effects tutorial, you will break down 3 amazing Kinetic typography techniques to help you produce stellar work! These techniques include how to animate entire text blocks within seconds, how to organize and swing over to the next typography block, and how to layout and change colours.
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