Adobe After Effects is our first step into the world of animation this year. Our very first assignment using After Effects was to animate a bouncing ball. This included individually saving frames in Adobe Illustrator and then importing them into After Effects. Unfortunately, I accidentally saved all of my frames in the wrong color mode, therefore I couldn’t even get them into After Effects, much less animate them. The next time we used After Effects it was to make a motion graphic. This included our name, 5 description words, a picture of ourselves, and a bit of extra flare. The software was relatively easy to use, even though there were billions of mysterious tools scattered across the screen that didn’t seem to do much. The tools I did recognise were the ones that were the same in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, the pen tool, text tool, eraser, etc.
Overall, the layout of After Effects was a bit intimidating, (I felt like a lighting technician or something with all those sliders and buttons!) There were way more different types of keyframes than I thought, anchor points, position, scale, opacity, and so on. I feel like they could have just had one type of keyframe where you adjust whatever you want, but what they did works too. I also wasn't a big fan of the preset timeline length. This was probably easily adjustable, but I didn’t know how and the assignment needed it to be a certain length anyway. But I would still like it better if I could change it as I work, I kept forgetting how much time i had to work with. In the end, - Adobe Illustrator makes animating simple through the use of keyframes. - The preset timeline length is a bit annoying. - It has a lot of similar tools to Photoshop and Illustrator.
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AuthorMy name is Xiomara Colopy. I am a student at DSA and am currently taking Digital Design and Animation 1 . Categories
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