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Week 8 Checklist:
Week 8 Checklist:
Poster design wireframes / iteration sketches
Your assets separated into PNG's (ready to animate in After Effects)
Up to date learning journal weekly reflections
Week 8 class agenda:
Week 8 class agenda:
Yagan screentest 2 - updated visuals.
Intro to After Effects activity: Swimming Goldfish
Intro to After Effects activity: Swimming Goldfish
Some tool we will explore:
After effects interface
Creating documents
Effects and presets - Fractal noise, gradient map, particle world
Puppet warp tool
Animating with the stopwatch and timeline
Animating on a spline with the pen tool
Create new document: 1952 x 896 Pxl
Effect: Gradient Map
Select blue to dark blue gradient for water background
Create a solid above your background gradient
Effect: Fractal Noise
Effect: Fractal Noise
Fractal type: Basic
Transform > Scale > height stretch
Animate evolution
Blending mode: Soft light
Import fish PNG into scene
Scale and transform asset
On the Background layer, use the pen tool and draw a path
Copy the Mask Path, and paste it on the Goldfish Position (timeline at 0 frames)
Stretch keyframes to 10 seconds on timeline
Make sure your fish is rotating in the direction it is swimming in: Layer > Transform > Auto Orient > Along path
Import fish PNG into scene
Scale and transform asset
On the Background layer, use the pen tool and draw a path
Copy the Mask Path, and paste it on the Goldfish Position (timeline at 0 frames)
Stretch keyframes to 10 seconds on timeline
Make sure your fish is rotating in the direction it is swimming in: Layer > Transform > Auto Orient > Along path
Precompose goldfish
Add effect: Wave warp
Edit wave height, width, speed, and type
Create a new solid above all layers in composition
Add vignette - using shape tool and feather
Additional:
Add bubbles with Effect: Particle Systems IIAdd effect: Turbulent Displace to warp bubbles
Planning your motion design
Planning your motion design
below are some examples of simple motion graphic design to inspire your projects
Peacock Activity
Peacock Activity
Animating with transform tools
Animation with the puppet warp tool
Effects and presets to explore to achieve this effect:
Effects and presets to explore to achieve this effect:
Wave Warp
Turbulent Displacement
Aditional resource - Optical Illusion art Illustrator
Aditional resource - Optical Illusion art Illustrator
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