Animation Lesson Google Slides
- Creating an Animation with After Effects
- The 12 Principles of Animation: The Illusion of Life on Vimeo
- Storyboard template
- Official Adobe tutorials
- Adobe Photoshop User Guide “Video Animation Overview”
- Adobe Photoshop Tutorials “Create an Animated Gif”
- Adobe Photoshop User Guide “Create Frame Animations”
- Adobe After Effects Tutorials “Get to know the After Effects interface”
- Adobe After Effects User Guide “Composition Basics”
- Adobe After Effects User Guide “Animation Basics”
- Creating an Animated Gif tutorial
- Making-of videos:
- Storytelling: Pixar in a Box: The Art of Storytelling
- Oskar Fischinger Kreise
- Len Lye Clips from “Kaleidoscope”, “Colour Flight” and “A Colour Box”
Animated words and emotions
Create an animation in After Effects that uses abstract shapes, colors, and text to describe an emotion. You will start by creating a storyboard to plan your sequence – use this template. Make a composition in After Effects that is 10 seconds long, with the HDTV 1080 29,97 preset. Your composition should include solids, text, and shape layers. Animate some of these properties: opacity, position, scale and rotation. After you have completed and saved your project, add it to the Render Queue and render it out to Quicktime (.mov) and MP4.
Fall 2023: After Effects doesn’t support rendering MP4 anymore, it should be done with Adobe Media Encoder, but the lab computers don’t have compatible versions of the Adobe software, so if you can’t use Adobe Media Encoder, use the Adobe Express Cloud Convert website to convert the .mov file from After Effects to a .mp4 file to post on Open Lab.
Here are two examples:
Upload the following to blackboard:
- The After Effects project file (.aep)
- Story board file.
- Create an open lab post with the MP4 file embedded and a short statement. Use this template.
