Using what we learned in the last project, create your own walk cycle. You can make a normal walk, run, slouch, or any kind of walk. You can make a human walk or any creature you can think of. Important: If you need to slow down your animation, you may want to duplicate your frames…
3- Walk Cycle Practice
A ‘walk cycle’ is a classic animation technique to create the illusion that a character is moving. We will use this template as practice. Notice the placement of the body parts – Head, Shoulders, Hips, Knees, Elbows, Hands, Feet Important: If you need to slow down your animation, you may want to duplicate your frames…
1 -Bouncing Ball Animation Practice
Animating a ‘bouncing ball’ is a classic animation exercise. It is a practice in two animation principles: exaggeration and squash and stretch. We will exaggerate the bouncing and the squashing/stretching to make the ball come alive! In real life, a ball bounces in a parabola shape, but does not stretch or squash. We add…
Animation – After Effects Keying and 3d Layers
Project: project_8_after_effects_keying_3d Vector File lacc_logo_1000px.ai Keying Green Screen Footage Import Green Screen footage Use the Pen tool to make a ‘garbage matte’ to cut the space that is unneeded. *not always necessary Now go to your effects & presets panel and type KEY in the search menu and look for the ‘Key…
Animation- After Effects – Motion Tracking, Nulls and Camera Tracking
AfterEffects_Project_9_Motion_Camera_Track ***for all the examples today keep your footage short and low res! motorcycle video is free here Motion Tracking & Nulls Find some footage that has some motion you want to track. Create a new null layer – we will use this to store the position and rotation Go to window> tracker Click…
Animation – After Effects – 3D Layers & Nulls
Project: Project_8_Nulls_3d Null Objects – Controlling Null Objects are layers that can be used to easily control other layers. *They can also be used for tracking which we will cover soon Create a New Comp Create Four Stars Make each of them Rotate If we wanted to Scale them all we could select the layers…
Animation – After Effects -Rotoscoping
Project_7_Rotos skate & mountain video taken from free site – https://www.videezy.com/urban/4174-skater-at-venice-beach-skatepark-slow-motion Rotoscope with Rotobrush – easier? Import a video into After Effects Create a new composition with this video Start at zero Put your quality at FULL and FiNAL QUALITY IMPORTANT- double click on the Video (make sure not to be in comp) Grab the…
Animation – After Effects – Expressions and Walk Cycles
PROJECT 6 Create a 3- 5 second animation that includes a WALK CYCLE and a LOOP Save your project as an .mp4 file Expression – Loop Out Create a 1 second animation comp – for example a ball bouncing. Ex- Animation starts with a ball up high, it hits the floor and squashes and the…
Animation – After Effects – Extra Credit – Spring Break Project!
Use your After Effects skills (trk matte, repeater, trim paths, nested compositions) and/or Photoshop skills (video layer animation, key frame animation) to create a ‘title card’ for LACC Visual & Media Arts! This title card would be used as an intro to our lecture videos, and videos we would share on youtube and instagram. Requirements:…
Animation – After Effects – Repeater and Trim Paths and TrkMat
PROJECT Project_5_After_effects REPEATER Create a rectangle- white fill – no stroke Center the Anchor Point Add Repeater by clicking on the Add arrow under the layer name and next to contents Open the Repeater layer Add 10 copies Open the Transform:Repeater and change the Position to 0,0 *this makes them stack upon each other…