1.Sunrise

Directions

Make sure you have Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, and Adobe Media Encoder installed on your Macbook. It will take at least 20 minutes to install. While it is installing view the video overview of After Effects (you do not have to take notes on this video).

Watch the video on AE setup (always take notes on Mr. Heil's videos). This video is very important as it has essential helpful tips before beginning.

For this animation assignment, there are several tutorials that you will follow to complete the video assignment. It is important that you have all of your files for this assignment backed up on Google Drive. If you lose your files on your Macbook or your Macbook breaks and you have to have a loaner computer, you will not be allowed extra time to redo the files you lost because you should have had all of your files backed up.

Also, it is important to remember that you are only going to use one After Effects (AE) project file; do not make new AE project files for each tutorial. Just keep adding to the same one.

For each tutorial, take Cornell-style notes while you watch and complete the tutorial in class.

Video example of the completed assignment when finished.

Follow the video tutorial but when it tells you to open a new AI file, open your Sunny Day tutorial and add mountains to it according to the video and then animate a sunrise. Finish the video up until 7:30 when you finish your mountains and then take a screenshot and post to Schoology. Next class we will animate and finish it.

Done!

Next Class

When finished, render as H.264 using Adobe Media Encoder that have downloaded (see the tech office if you don't have it). Media Encoder is faster and easier but another way to save it is using Quicktime (video example). Upload the video to Schoology.

In this tutorial you learned the following:

Basic Overview, Animation, & the Puppet Tool

In this lesson on type, you'll learn how to do the following:

• Navigate around the workspace
• Create new compositions
• How to use the shy guy
• Importing and arranging Illustrator layers
• Transform opacity, placement, & size
• Make characters move with the puppet tool
  • Basic Short Tips Covered in the Video Tutorial
  • Workspace
  • ctrl click drag to pop out
  • .aep (project file)
  • only saves links
  • .aep is not output, render into .mov
  • open one project at a time
  • import as composition
  • interpret file straight unmatted
  • image sequence
  • folders for organization
  • multiple compositions
  • drag files in where it is important (comp panel, time, etc) cmd+/
  • switches column & modes
  • cmd up/down (select layers), use keypad
  • blend modes
  • layer markers (sync to audio) * shortcut, timeline markers with comments (double click), chapter info
  • cmd y new solid layer
  • transform (tag)
  • 0 ram preview, fnc m, space bar preview shows as much (cache preview) 10frames, no audio
  • shortcut b and n for timeline

Do not do:

Watch the video to animate your bear and then animate a snowman animation according to the directions to your sunrise scene using TRAPS.after 7:45 & finish Part III

Watch the video on rendering which explains exporting your video but instead of choosing the FLV format in the video, use H.264. To choose H.264 click the "Format Options" button on the right side on the screenshot below.

• At 6:50 in your video, open your AI Panda file you previously made. Then click on the Panda's left arm (on the right side of the page) or you can choose the right arm if it is better. Press cmd + x to cut it out. Create a new layer on top of the other layers and press cmd + f to past it on the new layer and name the layer left arm. You do not have to name all your panda layers, only the arm since that is the only one you need to move

Then watch Part II up until 7:45 and then stop after have animated the sun moving in the background.

Then open up your Google Drive (either your student or CA account) and upload the rendered video file to your drive. Click on the share icon at the top and choose "Get shareable link" and paste the link to an email to WordPress and the link to the spreadsheet.

.and note the following:

Part B

Directions

Finish watching

Press cmd + k to open up your AI preferences (below) and click on Scale Strokes & Effects (in blue bottom right). Then when you change the scale of your panda, the stroke will stay proportionate.

When you are finished, it should look similar to the video example but insert your signature photo in the bottom right side of the video like Eric's video and animate your signature photo.

Watch the video overview and title it Snowman 1 in your notes. You do not have to make the snowman right now though.

Upload the video to Schoology.