Digital Photography and Imaging / Week 10

Week 10 (25/10/2021 - 29/10/2021)
Nurul Adlina Rizal / 0345429 / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Digital Photography and Imaging
Group A

LECTURE

Intro to After Effects

- 2.5D animation software used for animation, visual effects and motion picture composition
- used in film, TV and web video creation
- manipulate imagery
- combine layers of video and images into the same scene

What is After Effects? 

- motion graphics animation works by manipulating vector and rasterized art to create and tell a story

Pre-Compositing in Adobe Photoshop

Transforming Still Images (Graphic Elements and Photography) Into Moving Images

- compositing layer in photoshop
- layers need to be arranged and renamed accordingly 
- organize and easy to be animated in After Effects

Pre-Compositing in Adobe After Effects

Animating layers sequence from various elements and platform

- Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics and compositing application. 
- we can import elements such as images, video, vector and more into After Effects
- layer elements need to be organized and synchronized to the external software platforms such as Photoshop & Illustrator
- After Effects files does not embed its media, it links to it

TUTORIAL

Fig 1.1: Kinetic Typography (30/10/2021)

During tutorial we watched this video as well as a demo video on after effects, to understand its tools and what we can do to animate each layer individual to create a great compositional piece. It was indeed very helpful.

PRACTICAL

During practical we had to carry out what we learned in the demo and tutorial with a given Photoshop file. 

Fig 1.2: Progress Screenshot (30/10/2021)

As a result, I made something that I learned a lot of. Keyframes are a very useful tool.

Fig 1.3: Animated Video (30/10/2021)

Published to Youtube !

Fig 1.4: Animated Video on Youtube (30/10/2021)

I tried to show that the fencer and shark are fighting and later at the end of the video, the fencer wins the fight and the shark swims away. 



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