{"id":160,"date":"2017-09-04T18:10:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T23:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2017-09-11T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T18:42:39","slug":"aerefresher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/labs\/aerefresher\/","title":{"rendered":"AE Refresher Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>AE Refresher Lab<\/h1>\n<p>First, download <a href=\"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/weird-long-leg-guy.jpg\">this image<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Window-View-for-a-Car-Scene-Free-Royalty-Footage.mp4\">this video file<\/a>\u00a0as assets you&#8217;ll use.<\/p>\n<p>Then, create a short comp (approx. 15 &#8211; 20 seconds or so) in which we see the following demonstrated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Animated properties using keyframes<\/li>\n<li>Puppet Pin tool used to make the character walk or run<\/li>\n<li>Some use of 3D layers, possibly even lights, camera animation<\/li>\n<li>Masking (possibly to extract the character from its white background)<\/li>\n<li>Nested Sub-Comps<\/li>\n<li>Parenting<\/li>\n<li>Use of the &#8220;Change to Color&#8221; effect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Render<\/strong> your comp as a <strong>Quicktime<\/strong> with codec <strong>Apple ProRes 422<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compress<\/strong> your exported Quicktime using <strong>HandBrake<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/topics\/handbrake\/\">as per these instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upload<\/strong> your compressed video to <strong>YouTube<\/strong> and <strong>send me the link<\/strong> via my UWM email address (my-last-name @ uwm . edu).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AE Refresher Lab First, download this image and this video file\u00a0as assets you&#8217;ll use. Then, create a short comp (approx. 15 &#8211; 20 seconds or so) in which we see the following demonstrated: Animated properties using keyframes Puppet Pin tool used to make the character walk or run Some use of 3D layers, possibly even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/labs\/aerefresher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AE Refresher Lab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":240,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/245"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}