Digital Photography and Imaging(Week 10)

-Nov 25,2024

PAN RUINING(0378138)

Bachelor of Design(Honours)in Creative Media/Taylor's University

Digital Photography and Imaging

After Effects Exercise / Intro to AE

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LECTURES

Lecture 10-Intro to After Effects

·Adobe After Effects is a 2.5D animation software used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture compositing.

·After Effects is used in film, TV, and web video creation.

·This software is used in the post-production phase, and has hundreds of effects that can be used to manipulate imagery. This allows you to combine layers of video and images into the same scene.

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-Compositing Layers in Photoshop

·Photoshop is a platform to compositing the layers. 

·All the layers need to be arrange and rename accordingly so that it will be organize and easy to be animated in After Effects.

·Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application. We can import elements such as images, video, vector and more into After Effects.

·All the layer elements need to be organized and synchronized to the external software platforms such as Photoshop & Illustrator. 

·After Effects files does not embed its media, it links to it.

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TASKS

1. Download and watch the After Effects keyframe demo sent by Mr. Fauzi Yusoff.

(https://taylorsedu-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/fauzi_yusoff_taylors_edu_my/EXDod5UU50pCuERPgTw_BzUB7mKpz0hsrQD90LL_0fcERA?nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D&e=RTJQPO)

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

3. Create a composition setting 1080 px (Width) x 1920 px (Height), Duration 15 second

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

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

6. Upload our exercise into our Youtube Channel.

7. Update our progress and video to our E-Portfolio blog. 

8. Attach our E-Portfolio link on this Submission.

I followed the video practicing the process:

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Final product:

Youtube video link:https://youtube.com/shorts/v1t3FWEsfg0?feature=share