Digital Photography & Imaging - W10

5/6/23 // Week 10
Mercy Chong HuiZiun // 0360929

Digital Photography & Imaging // BDCM

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 W10: Lectures 

Intro to After Effects
- Basic understanding on how to link Adobe Photoshop layers into After Effects
- Understanding the compositing concept from still images to moving images

After Effects
> Adobe After Effects is a 2.5D animation software used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture compositing.
> This software was used in the post-production phase and has hundreds of effects that can be used to manipulate imagery. 
> Allows you to combine layers of video and images into the same scene.

Compositing layers in Photoshop
Compositing layers in After Effects
> Learning on how to do composition from still images in Photoshop and advancing it to moving images that can be done in After Effects.

The link to this week's lecture notes:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Fjvl206_ZqpXS-CMyJ0sNBDb0o5xPX7W4_XEZRC__BI/edit#slide=id.p1

 Tutorials 

Interface, Layer and tools

1. After Effect Live demo during tutorial class.
2. Advanced keyframes(attachment video)

Fig Kinetic typography

 Practical 

After Effects exercise

Instructions

1. Download the PSD composition
2. Import the W10_ANIMATE.psd into After Effects
3. Create a composition setting of 1080px (width) x 1920px (height), Duration: 15 seconds
4. Create a keyframe animation to the layers using Position (P), Scale (S) and masking path.
5. Render output: Quicktime (.MOV) or .MP4
6. Upload your exercise into your Youtube channel
7. Update your video and progress into your e-portfolio blog
8. Attach your e-portfolio link on this submission.

Fig Video tutorial demo on After Effects exercise

My version on the After Effects exercise