Animated Textures

PREMIERE

• New Premiere Demo
• Premiere Demo from Last Class
• Premiere Written Step-by-Steps
• Nesting Sequences

AFTER EFFECTS

• Video Effects Demo (the how-to starts 6min in)
• Dynamic Linking Premiere with After Effects (skip to 4:00min and 7:50min)
• Mattes Review
• Blend Modes (jump to 4:08min)
• Double Exposure Effect  (jump to 4:45min)
• Rotobrush Tool
• Motion Tracking
• Drawing on Video Frames

• Watch these videos:
• Animate an Image from Photoshop
  Goes over the following: How to cut up an image using Pen tool/masks, content-aware fill, healing brush, clone stamp, importing PSD into AE, plays around with anchor point, puppet pin, turbulent displace effect, creates subtle parallax 3D effect with Camera, creates a mask, and an Alpha Matte.
• My Full Class Demo
• Example Files
• Mattes in After Effects 

Watch at least one of these:

• 3D Parallax Effect Rig
  
• The Parallax Effect

Additional

• Download Animated Textures
• Working with Cameras
• 3D Camera Techniques
• Photoshop Image Selection using Quick Select Tool 
• Masks in After Effects
• How to Use Image Trace in Illustrator

How to Animate an Illustrator Scene
Goes over how to set up and import the Illustrator file, move anchor points and animate assets, convert to shape layer, puppet pin tool, and parenting

How to import Illustrator/Photoshop files Step-by-Step

• File > Import > Composition – Retain Layer Sizes. This will import the file keeping all the layers the correct size and not the size of the entire composition for each layer.
• A composition and a folder of your layers are created and added to your Project Panel.
• You can double-click the new Illustrator composition to open in the timeline or drag it into your existing composition and it will be treated as a nested group essentially. If you dragged it, you can double click that comp to see the nested layers.
• To see the best quality of the layer, you need to click the continuous rasterization starburst icon * in the timeline next to the appropriate layers. You also need to make sure there is a solid diagonal line icon / for the best quality column.

Puppet Pin Tool

• Goes over how to rig a character using Puppet Pin Tool
• Another video that goes over it with an octopus

Parenting/Rigging a Character
Goes over how to parent body parts together for a walk cycle (beware: walk cycles are tricky!)

Tactile Effects – Hand Drawn Style, Texture, Grain, Paper Cutout 

• Using an Adjustment Layer to create Hand Drawn look to vector layers 
• Create Looping Textures in AE
• Adding Grain and Noise to Vector Layers
• Creating Paper Cutout Look

Parenting
This video reviews Pre-Composing (4:55) and shows how to use Parenting (6:50-11:00) to group layers
Parenting Video which shows how to use the Null object

How to Wipe on Text
This video shows how to wipe/reveal text using masks and mattes

Illustrator Integration
How to prepare an Illustrator file and import it into AE
Another video demonstrating this

My Demo: Working with Type
Demo video covering different ways of working with Type in AE

Kinetic Typography Tutorial
Tutorial (Create type and time up on different layers in AE and skip to 10:25 in the video. Uses a null and parenting method.)

Written Step-by-Step Help
Steps for Working with Text, Parenting, and Pre-Composing

Handwriting/Drawing On Effects

1. Using Stroke Method
2. Using Paint Write On Effect
3. Trim paths and matte method

Compiling Files for Exercise (around 7:25 is when i go over compiling)
Learn how to compile your AE files for final export + Reviewing Shapes and Precomps

Pre-Composing
Learn how to group your layers together to achieve dynamic results and save time

Shape Effects
What you can do with Shapes
Beginner’s Guide to Shape Layers

Audio Integration
How to work with Audio in AE

After Effects Step-by-Step Help related to exercise:
Click here to see step-by-step instructions:

Playback/Preview Help
Demo on how to get a smoother playback in the timeline

Tips and Tricks
Demo of helpful keyboard shortcuts and other time-efficient tips

Previous Demos:

Intro to AE
Intro to After Effects Demo Video

Exporting
Exporting Demo Video

Graph Editor / Easing

• Anticipation
• Follow Through
• Squash and Stretch
• Intro to Animation Curves in AE (bouncing ball at 13.:20)
• Using Value Graph (1:00-7:00 / adds follow-through at 3:50)
• Using Speed Graph (13:00-18:00)(18-25:00 adds squash and stretch. he says umm a lot.)
• Basic Easing Tutorial

Graph Editor Demos

• Intro to Animation Curves in AE (bouncing ball at 13.:20)
• Using Speed Graph (13:00-18:00)(18-25:00 adds squash and stretch. he says umm a lot.)
• Using Value Graph (1:00-7:00 / adds follow-through at 3:50)
• Animation Principles AE Quick Tips / Downloadable Files for some of these Tutorials
• Basic Easing Tutorial

Export using Adobe Media Encoder Demo

• Exporting Demo Video

First After Effects Demo

Intro to After Effects Demo Video

• includes interface intro, composition settings, animating the position, scale, rotation, and opacity of basic shapes, easing, trimming and moving layers, moving the anchor point, adjusting the work area, and rendering

Step-by-Step Help

Intro to AE written step-by-steps

• includes animating position, rotation, scale, opacity, easing, moving anchor point, and rendering

Other General Beginner Tutorials that can help you with AE:

• GreyScaleGorilla: Guide to Keyframes in AE
• Learn AE in 18 Minutes
• Adobe Help: AE Tutorials
• Learn EVERYTHING About AE