Digital Photography and Imaging __Week 10

12/06/2023
Lee Jia Rou (0363293)
Digital Photography and Imaging 
Group 1 SEC 1
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Week 10 

✧✧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

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

Example works from previous students

 ✧✧Tutorial✧✧
1. AFTER EFFECT LIVE DEMO during Tutorial class.
2. Advanced keyframes (attachment video)
✧✧Practical✧✧
1. Download the PSD composition below:
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 your exercise into your Youtube Channel.
7. Update your progress and video to your E-Portfolio blog. 
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Youtube link