Friday, 24 November 2017

After Effects workshop 4 Notes

Adding effects to objects - change colour etc. -
in right hand pannel - choose effect - drag directly onto literal object
- control effect in left panel (under stylise) - turn off and on etc.
- can also animate effects (have an effects dropdown above transform) - i.e. make something change colour in time

to change how your whole animation looks or nearly the whole thing - add an adjustment layer / add effect to adjustment layer instead of actual layer  (layer, new, adjustment layer)

You can overlay an image with a texture - just drag in texture - multiply or overlay (in photoshop effects dropdown) (can add a video or photo overlay)


Making a composition out of lots of tiny assets
Open objects - make composition size of asset - drag asset onto this icon

Change size after - composition, composition settings - change

to embed one composition in another (i.e. animate rocket fully then make it move in sky)
make rocket then go file new composition - make it and it will exist already in side panel
see list of compositions here

Can then duplicate rockets or whatever

To make object follow path nose first (more naturally - layer, transform, auto - orient - orient along path
Can also import illustrator files - make sure you tick this so it doesn't get pixelated


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