DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & AND IMAGING WEEK 10

 08/06/2023 (Week 10)

Agnes Fadhyllah  / 0360503

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

Week 10 : Introduction to After Effects

Lectures

Introduction to After Effects

What is After Effects?

• A powerful animation tool called Adobe After Effects is frequently used to produce 2.5D animations, visual effects, and compositing for films, television programmes, and online videos. It offers a wide variety of effects to edit photographs and is typically used during the post-production stage. Users of After Effects can combine video and image layers in appealing ways to produce visual sceneries.

Fig 1.0 Adobe After Effects Logo

Fig 1.1 Adobe After Effects

• An original technique for adding movement to animations is provided by Adobe After Effects. It uses motion graphics animation, which manipulates rasterized and vector imagery to present a story. Additionally, this software enables users to add tangible media to their works, such pictures and movies, broadening the scope for creativity.

Pre-Composting in Adobe Photoshop

To transform still images (graphic elements and photography) into moving images.

• Composting layers can be done in Photoshop , Arranging and renaming the layers accordingly so that it'll be organized and makes it easier to animate in after effects

Fig 1.2 Pre-Composting in Photoshop

Pre-Composting in Adobe After Effects

To animate layes sequence from various elements and platform

• Adobe After Effects is used for compositing, motion graphics, and digital visual effects. It enables users to import a variety of resources into their projects, including photographs, movies, and vectors. These layer elements must be properly organised and synchronised with external platforms like Photoshop and Illustrator by the software. Notably, After Effects files establish connections to the external media files rather than directly embedding the material.

Advanced Keyframes

EXERCISE 

Fig 2.0 AE Exercise

Following Mr.Fauzi Tutorial i start doing the AE exercises to understand how to use Adobe After effects, trying to test the waters on trying to get used to the application and the features.

I didnt get to screenshot all the progress but here are all the points i made 

Fig 2.1 Move Layer

Fig 2.2 Typewritter Layer

Fig 2.3 Fencer Layer

Fig 2.4 Shark Layer

Fig 2.5 Projector Layer

It was a really confusing at first but i learn to get used to it at the end and understand the application better now, it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be!

Final Result

Fig 2.6 Final Result