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MMDD 102 – Presets

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

MMDD 102 – Masks & Keying

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

MMDD 102 – Motion & The World Around Us

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

MMDD 102 – Creating Motion

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

MMDD 102 – Intro to AfterEffects

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

MMDD 102 – Class Intro

Motion Design 1 Class Intro Welcome to Motion Design 1 During this semester we will be covering a multitude of aspects of aftereffects and animation within the program. Some of the things we will be covering: An overview of motion Intro to after effects Creating motion in after effects Motion in the world around us… View Article