Great resources for beautiful tutorials ( you should sign-up for free):
https://mattrunks.com/en/tutorials
Stop motion text effect:
Great resources for beautiful tutorials ( you should sign-up for free):
https://mattrunks.com/en/tutorials
Stop motion text effect:
The is a quick introduction to “Compositing” – creating a shot out of different elements (green screen footage/ videos or images) and blending them (realistically/ graphic style) together.
Green Screen Vs. Blue Screen:
When shooting people green screen usually works better. However, if your subject wears something green ( or when shooting a tree for example) you can always use a blue background.
Best basic tutorial for this subject ( ignore all the DV footage comments)
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/basic_color_keying/
More detailed tutorial:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/advanced_soft_keying/
Advanced excellent tutorial about “Light Wrap”
Advanced “Junk Matt” techniques:
Green Screen from downloaded stock footage:
Great job everyone!
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
Advanced:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/demon_face_warp/
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/magic_tracking/
This wasn’t covered in class – BUT:
Mocha is a free tool that comes with After Effects, if your shot is challenging to track – you might want to check this tutorial:
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/
Collapse Transformation :
http://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-naked-truth-about-collapse-transformations–ae-16228
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
Follow this tutorial,:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?