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Getting Started with After Effects
These are the instructions we followed for Monster animation last year since we didn't practice with our Emoji first! We ran into some serious problems with the way students had drawn their monsters. I think that the practice we did will make some of these videos a review of skills you may have already mastered.
What Will Break AE?
What Will Break AE?
Use this practice to find out what kind of changes are safe to make in Illustrator without damaging your After Effects project.
Import as Composition
Import as Composition
The default "Footage" won't give you separate layers. "Retain Layer Sizes" works, but puts the anchor point in the middle of each layer instead of the center of the screen.
Set the Duration with a Master Composition
Set the Duration with a Master Composition
Creating a new blank composition will affect the duration of the next composition created when importing your Illustrator layers.
Moving Anchor Points
Moving Anchor Points
One of the most effective and simple things to animate is Rotation, which happens around the Anchor Point. Change the anchor point for all layers using the Pan Behind (Anchor Point) tool. Once you add keyframes you can't change it.
Introducing... The Puppet Pin!
Introducing... The Puppet Pin!
AE has a nifty tool that lets you stick pins in your artwork and animate them by changing their position over time, the very definition of Keyframing. It takes practice, and first tries are often pretty weird, but you can get amazing results from designs even when you can't animate any other way. The goal is to not break the "laws of physics", so to speak.
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