After Affects Session 2
Updated: Nov 9, 2020
Thursday 22nd October 2020
Character icon - shy layers affect
-layer will be active but hidden from our timeline
-toggle and select the master icon to remove it
-good for organisation
-continuous rasterize
-toggle quality layer - turn quality down to help your computer speed up
fx- toggle off to speed up
- for effects
-blank because no layers have effects
Effects:
-in effects and presets pannel-(right side)
-click and drag effect onto a layer or composition
-should be a button to reset + delete action
hue and saturation
-master hue - spin whilst timeline drags
-causes rainbow
-over time it could get pixilated
animation presets
-can add effects to all layers
-motion blur- causes raindrops to blur with motion and varys with speed
-automatically blurs things with speed
-makes things more realistic
-change colours of layers to visually organise the timeline
-adjustment layer - where you can add effects to all layers underneath
- toggle makes it an adjustment layer
rocket:
- drag asset to composition icon- makes it the composition
-aspect lock-keeps it the correct size without stretching the image
-fire - use rotating tool and staggered key frame
-scale- big-small-big-small
- combined flame and rocket layer together - nesting composition - whole animation contained in one layer
-access composition at file of layer-building little scenes- put into a big scene
import an illustrator image to after affects - it becomes rasterized (pixillated)
-star tool-used for vector layers
-continuously rasterized (drawn)
- layer becomes a vector again
asteroid
- blur-gaussican
-increase blur-makes it look close to the camera and out of focus
-shrinks and moves into focus
-rotate too
-anchor point- move off to object - smashes around it - add motion blur
-handles allow curve - shows gravity
-orient along the path - rocket flies following the path
-layer - transform-auto orient
-motion blur added to rocket
select composition kf
- command
- toggle or rove across time
- moves at same speed
- kf= equidistant
-import layer - textures
- drag in layer
-opacity slider is one option
-apply texture- blend mode
-lower left 3 icons control this
- blend mode- multiply- makes white areas transparent
- import assets- stars in background - big image
- adds depth - moves stars slighty
App Demo
-add iphone to animation - nesting tool
-adds contexts to animation
- toggle hold keyframe -skips to each movement
export and saving
file- dependency - collect files
- puts assets and puts them together
- footage - assets
export-which comp selected - app demo
-file- export - add to media encoder queue - mp4 + H264
-match source- specific presets - youtube /twitter
-tell it where it should be saved - desktop
- click green play button to encode
- uni have powerful computers to render
-gives estimated file size