Category Archives: Assignments

Assignment #06 - Final project, Uncategorized

Final Assignment

Description: Design & animate your own ABC version

Concept: Decide about a topic for you ABC ( the ABC of monsters/candies/ hipsters)
Length: 60-90 seconds

Part 01: Due by Monday, 10am, April 13th
Focus on design of frame and typography
Present all of your style frames before animation.

Part 02: Due by Monday, 10am, April 20th
30 seconds render – design and animation
Part 03: Due by Monday, 10am, April 27th
60 seconds render – design and animation
Part 04: Due by Monday, 10am, May 4th
Final presentation – design and animation

 

 

 

Assignment #03, Class Notes, Uncategorized

Class 04 – Text Animations

Basic text animation tutorial:

Advanced text animation tutorial:

http://archive.divergentshadows.com/dv/ae/notes/text_animation.shtml

Super advanced text animation tutorial:

https://mattrunks.com/en/tutorials/after-effects/amortype

 

Sync animation with audio tutorial:

Text follow path tutorial:

 

Swinging text tutorial:

 

Free fonts resources:

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

 

 

 

Importing Illustrator layers:
  • After Effects does not recognize Illustrator sublayers as individual layers. In order to import separate layers from Illustrator, make sure you create a new layer for every independent element.
  • After Effects has a slightly different importing menu for Illustrator files than for Photoshop files, though the options remain the same:
    • Choose footage or composition from the top of the menu
    • Choose document size or layer size from the bottom of the menu
    • You can also choose to import an individual layer
Working with Vector Files (Illustrator) — Continuously Rasterize
In order for vector files (files you import from illustrator as well as assets you create directly in After Effects) to maintain sharp edges when scaling above 100%, make sure to turn on the Continuously Rasterize switch.

Collapse Transformation :

http://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-naked-truth-about-collapse-transformations–ae-16228

Assignment #05 - 3D tracking, Assignments, Uncategorized

Assignment – 3d tracking and text

This is a 2 weeks assignment:

3D tracking for song or movie dialogue.

All of the words should appear on screen as part of the 3D scene.

 

Length: 25-30 seconds

Week 1 – due to Monday, March 30, 10 am , via Vimeo link.

Shot, edit and 3D track a video according to a song / movie dialogue.

Place all the text within the scenes after the scene was tracked.

Focus on:

Concept, composition, design,color pallet, fonts, interesting text placement.

 

Week 2 – due to Monday, April 6, 10 am , via Vimeo link:

Correct scene according to feedback in class

Animate text

Assignment #05 - 3D tracking, Resources, Tutorials

3D Camera Tracking

Inspiration:

 

3D Camera Tracking Tutorials:

Fast 2 minutes overview – including shadow catcher and lights:

Here is a frame from the video to show how to create a shadow catcher and light:

Screen Shot 2014-10-27 at 9.13.10 PM

In-depth tutorial:

Mask out element to look like they are behind:

 

Masking out people from the frame to help solve camera:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/no-stupid-questions-with-colin-smith/after-effects-advanced-3d-camera-tracker-for-hard-to-track-clips/

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-after-effects-cs6/3d-camera-tracker/

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Assignment – 3D scene animation

This is a 2 weeks assignment ( next week is spring break).

Theme: Wonderland

Design and animate a 3D environment with characters under the topic of this assignment – it’s open to your personal interpretation.

Design : you can use illustrations, collage of photos,  or any other technique. Create a world that you can animate your camera in.

Use After Effects lights / shadows/ music /  sounds and any other technique that we covered to support your concept.

Length: Up to 20 seconds

Due: March 23rd, 2015, 10am – please submit Vimeo links only

 

 

 

Assignment #04, Class Notes, Tutorials

lesson 06 – 3D Camera ( part 02)

Focal Distance:

Auto focus expression (advanced):

http://motionscript.com/design-guide/auto-focus.html

Lights:

 

Screen shots from the video above:

Screen Shot 2014-10-20 at 1.53.10 AM Screen Shot 2014-10-20 at 1.53.21 AM Screen Shot 2014-10-20 at 1.54.28 AM Screen Shot 2014-10-20 at 1.54.45 AM

Materials:

 http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-after-effects-cc/introduction-to-3d-material-options-environment-layers/

Here are a couple of other advanced techniques to build a 3d scene:

Vanishing point:

( Thanks Hyo Bin for this tutorial)

 

Camera Mapping:

 http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/submerged/

 

3D displacement maps:

Same technique ( Depth map):

 

 

3D Text and vector shape extrude:

Advanced:

http://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/real-camera-inner-workings-within-after-effects–ae-21497

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/submerged/