Digital Photography and Imaging GCD 61204/ Week 10

 30.11.2023 / Week 10

Siang Huey Yee / 0369549

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

Project 2 - After Effect Exercise

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OUTLINE

• LECTURES
• INSTRUCTIONS
• TUTORIAL
• PRACTICAL

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LECTURES

Week 10: Intro to After Effects

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What is After Effects?

• A 2.5D animation software used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture compositing

• Used in film, TV, and web video creation

• Used in the post-production phase, and has hundreds of effects that can be used to manipulate imagery

• Allows combining layers of video and images into the same scene

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INSTRUCTIONS

Module Booklet Information

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TUTORIAL

Week 10: Interface, Layer & Tools

The attached video below are tutorial demonstrating the method on how to create text animation on Adobe After Effects.

Figure 10.1 Video - Kinetic Typography

(https://youtu.be/qluLUmzPAJE)

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PRACTICAL

Week 10: After Effects Exercise

1. Download the PSD file given. 

2. Import the W10_ANIMATE.psd into Adobe After Effects.

3. Create a composition with dimensions of 1080 pixels in width and 1920 pixels in height, with a duration of 15 seconds.

4. Create a keyframe animation to the layers using Position (P), Scale (S) & Masking path.

5. Render output: Quicktime (.MOV) or .MP4

6. Upload the exercise into your Youtube Channel.

FINAL AFTER EFFECTS EXERCISE:

YouTube link: https://youtube.com/shorts/gh2eBpoOkP0 

Figure 10.2 Video - After Effects Exercise