IN-CLASS TUTORIALS AND ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
Adobe After Effects: Adjusting Keyframes
Adobe After Effects: Masks & Track Mattes
Adobe After Effects: Importing and Animating Illustrator Layers
Adobe After Effects: Cameras & Lights
Adobe After Effects: Adding Sound
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
- After Effects CC 2018 Essential Training: Motion Graphics: – Understand keyframe interpolations, Add and Adjust Keys, Create and animate masks, Use Track Mattes, Introduction to 3D layers , Camera and lights– Videos from Lynda.com (follow these instructions to Log In for free)
- Illustrator CC 2018 Essential Training – Videos from Lynda.com (follow these instructions to Log In for free)
- Generate Effects– Adobe’s After Effects User Guide
ASSIGNMENT: AFTER EFFECTS – ANIMATION & SOUND
Launch Adobe After Effects and translate your storyboard into an animation. Remember: you may only use typography and vector shapes (no characters), and should include at least 1 Effect, and 1 Mask or Track Matte.
Also start working on your animation’s soundtrack. Use sound/music to enhance your piece (i.e: make the actions of your character clearer/more dramatic, to add emotion, humor etc.). Freesound.org, Internet Archive: Audio Archive, and Creative Commons tracks on SoundCloud are good resources for CC licensed audio.
Deliverables (on Blackboard before next week’s class):
- Your animation should be at least 70% complete. Submit your .aep file.
Deliverables (on Blackboard before week 12/final due date):
- Completed animation in Quicktime format (.mov)
- Finished .aep file
- A short statement (use this template)
For the full project guidelines, grading rubric and examples, go to the After Effects Project page.
