Type in Motion Written by Anthony Adams Character Panel The character panel in After Effects is similar to what you would see in Photoshop or Illustrator. Character Panel Options: Font Font Option Font Size Kerning Stroke Width Vertical Scale Baseline Width Bold Italic All Caps Small Caps Fill Stroke Leading Tracking Horizontally Scale Tsume Subscript… View Article

Deeper Motion Illustrator Import and Motion We can import assets from Illustrator into After Effects. To start the process, all you have to do is drag and drop our AI file into the project window on After Effects. Upon doing so, you will get a prompt. On this prompt, there will be a couple options…. View Article

From Storyboard to Video Review – Going from static frames to a rendered project As we started learning in the first storyboard lecture, we can use storyboards to start the creative process before we start working on a video composition. Cell Layout Cell Only Title & Cell Cell & Description Title, Cell, & Description Some… View Article

Using the Presets And Effects & the Project Panel Review presets Presets in After Effects are effects that can be applied to anything in After Effects. There is a wide array of effects and presets that come with After Effects. You can also add different ones. There are a ton of different effects that are… View Article

Masks & Keying Using Masks and video to create VFX elements. Keying Keying is when you select a specific color in a video footage shot and then making any pixel with that color value (or similar values) transparent. This allows you to merge footage with other footage. Green screens all use this. Keep in mind… View Article

Week 5 – Motion in the World Around Us Art Direction An art director, takes conceptual ideas from a client or creative director and executes. They take ideas and make them happen by moving projects through the development phases, going from an idea to the rough all the way through to the final production phases…. View Article

Week 3 – Creating Motion In After Effects Let’s cover some more tools we can use to enhance our compositions in After Effects. Arcs There is a simple trick we can use to animate along a path. Instead if animating for example in one line, we can create a curved path or multiple curved path… View Article

INTRO TO AFTER EFFECTS A tour of the After Effects interface When you open After Effects you will be prompted with a welcome window. Here you can start a new project Open an existing project Create a composition from footage We can just click new project and start off. Here we can see the interface…. View Article