Created by Travis Sciantarelli

Finalizing Monster Files

File Dependencies

Making sure you have the right versions of project files depend is made easier with the After Effects "Dependencies" feature. Use it to create a new separate set of folder with the AEP and AI files needed to export your animations. Use the right Date Code!

Animated GIF - Dithered

Animate GIF - Hard Edged

250107 Aaliyah Sentmat.mp4

MP4 Video Version

Above is the full-resolution version of the animation, inserted via the DO NOT DELETE folder on Google Drive. On the left are two versions of the GIF: the top one attempts to represent the glow with "speckled" edges using Dithering, the bottom one does its best to calculate hard edges. See which one works best for you!

Collected Student Monsters

Some students turned in their MP4 animation videos in time to make this quick collections for everyone to see. Monsters that can't be seen well on their background will need to be removed - the requirement of visibility cannot be overlooked.

Loop My Fractal Noise Background

Make fractal noise loop with the expression below as long as you click the Cycle Evolution box under Evolution Options in the Effect Controls and set the revolutions to 1. Your work area bar has to be the entire composition so shortening the actual composition is critical. Composition --> Trim Comp to Work Area can do it but it's a one way trip - be cautious.

time*8*360/thisComp.duration

The first number determines the speed of the animation.

Loop My Wiggle

To make a wiggle effect loop perfectly paste the complete text to the right in the Expressions section for the value. The tricky part is making your animation a precise number of seconds and entering that value in the top section - this example is of an 8 second loop.

frequency = .3; // wiggles per second
amplitude = 40; // amount of pixels to wiggle
secondsToLoop = 8; // time to loop in seconds

// --------

t = time % secondsToLoop;
wiggle1 = wiggle(frequency, amplitude, 1, 0.5, t);
wiggle2 = wiggle(frequency, amplitude, 1, 0.5, t - secondsToLoop);
linear(t, 0, secondsToLoop, wiggle1, wiggle2)

Portfolio Update

It's time to get all your Vector work squared away on it's portfolio page! There are a lot of images and at least two videos that need to be documented as an important part of your work this year. Make sure your best writing effort is clear and complete, detailing the software and methods you used for your Emoji and Monster animations, as well as the individual images that were part of the process.

Things to Include:

Sample Graphic, Emoji and other PNG files
Animated Emoji GIF
Original ELAR Monster scan and Photoshop Levelled JPG versions
Illustrator version of your Monster as a PNG with transparency
Animated GIF and MP4 video versions of your Monster
Any additional drawings such as 3D inflations using Renlee's technique (Including ALL of yours, Renlee!)

Things to Remember:

Upload a color background to your sections to show the transparency feature of GIFs can be
Write complete sentences with proper grammar - No lower-case "I"s, punctuation, spell checked, etc.
Tell users which software was used when and get the page links from the Reference page to enhance the viewer experience.
Make sure the sizes of your graphics properly relate to the Multimedia effort involved in making them, for example, the scanned in original drawing should NOT be the biggest thing on the page.
All text must be font size 18 or larger, not to mention high-contrast. Light colors on light backgrounds (or dark on dark backgrounds) are too hard to read! and of course...

PUBLISH PUBLISH PUBLISH

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