exercise no. 1
Due Feb. 27 at the beginning of class
Import any number (1 to infinity) of still images or video into After Effects and drag them into a 1280×720 composition.
Then, for the following 5 properties add at least 3 keyframes per property:
- Scale
- Rotation
- Position
- Opacity
- Some effect property (e.g., blur amount, liquify’s distortion mesh, bulge amount, curves, etc…)
(Since that’s 5 properties, and at least 3 keyframes per property, that means there should ultimately be at least 15 keyframes altogether.)
Another requirement is that you use Easy Ease In and Easy Ease Out on at least one of the properties in order to get experience with some exponential interpolation.
The above may be keyframed all on the same layer or multiple layers. The main thing is that you get some experience with animating each kind of property.
Duration: 10 – 20 seconds
Please submit a compressed (h264) video file to D2L in the “exercise no. 1” dropbox. It shouldn’t be too large in file size, maybe 10 – 30 MB or so.
(To create this compressed file, I recommend rendering a high quality quicktime from AE (using the codec ProRes 422 on Mac or DNxHD on Windows) and then compressing the high quality file using Handbrake as described here or Adobe Media Encoder.
Alternatively, you can just render and compress in one step from After Effects by choosing h264 as the render codec, but you might have less control over the resulting compression quality.)