mwmedia

00:00 Deep dive into Blender Render settings and render ime reduction 13:32 Compositor node tree for DeNoising and Glare and Rendering still images for each frame of animation 14:52 How to import our PNG stills from Blender into After Effects as animated 19:30 Render Animation and how to set up still PNG images and Render test in Blender 21:14 demonstration of Viewport Render views in Blender for machines that are not fast 22:17 getting royalty free music from YouTube 23:21 After Effects: preferences: memory and performance: enable multiframe rendering TURN it OFF 24:09 Rendering in After Effects Recap 2023 verse older versions of After Effects 28:19 Using Adobe Media Encoder to convert your render to a different video Codec 30:16 Optimizing your computer's performance for animation and motion design 31:14 final assignment reminder and how to conduct yourself during a crit and present your work 33:03 tone, look and feel discussion 33:41 discussion: The Amazing Bulk 34:10 True Detective double Exposure technique recap 34:37 importing yoiur video clip into after effects timeline 34:53 reminder of Luma Mattes and how pure white and pure black influence transparency from your image 35:19 Effect Keylight for removing green screen 38:20 Using the green screen removed footage as an Alpha Matte 40:55 using our precomp green screen removed footage for VFX, experimenting with various techniques 54:47 think of how your images interact with one another and line up when composited together 55:13 times I will be checking my email up until final crit Monday night

00:00 setting up your Illustrator file for Character Rigging 01:48 Importing your Character into After Effects the correct way 02:17 opening sequence 02:23 continuously rasterizing your Illustrator layers 02:46 identifying and naming your layers if not named in Illustrator 04:19 reorganizing your layers in the timeline 04:26 parenting your layers into a character rig 05:33 fixing your anchor points so character moves properly 08:00 creating our walk cycle 11:01 adding a wiggle expression to rotation for animating the tail of our dog character 11:41 adding a wiggle expression to rotation for animating the ear 12:02 adding rotation for animating the head 12:24 follow through and overlapping action- animating the hat to have more motion caused by the head motion 13:04 recap and talking about the 12 principles of animation 13:23 adding squash and stretch to our walking character 13:57 using CC Bender and a wiggle expression to add some sway and swish to our characters coat 15:01 adding a loopout expression to all of our keyframed stopwatches 16:59 testing out our rigged, looping character 17:16 parenting layers to head like eye lids 18:45 creating a long background for our looping character to walk through 20:12 animating position of our long scene and the precomposed looping character 22:01 Blender: discussing render settings Eevee 24:06 Blender: discussing Cycles render settings 26:14 Blender: discussing the compositor and denoising ad glare nodes 29:05 discussing render test times 30:30 Blender: discussing add on Blenderkit 32:48 Blender: discussing add on Easy HDRI 34:08 Blender: using the AI denoising render for faster single frame renders- not to be used for animating 35:39 After Effects: trouble shooting Mattes in a complex scene 45:51 Discussion on deleting unnecessary layers form complex artwork in Illustrator 51:01 creating a long scene for character to walk through- using effect: Grid 52:29 3d enabling grid layer to add perspective to the floor 54:14 how to find the stock footage in Canvas I uploaded for students 55:55 creating transitions and reveals using Alpha Mattes and Luma Mattes in After Effects 1:05:00 discussion on title safe and action safe areas

00:00 intro 00:07 setting up your composition and changing composition settings and timecode explained 00:49 After Effects layout explained 01:16 4 pillars of motion design- position, scale, rotation, transparency 01:55 recap motion design workflow 02:13 moving the anchor point and demo on how it influences motion 03:23 sample workflow for a simple motion design 04:36 how to delete keyframes 04:43 keyframe navigation: previous, next, insert or delet a keyframe 05:50 sample motion design for position 06:12 different ways to select keyframes and changing keyframe interpolation: going from linear to easy ease 06:53 speed graph editor 09:57 pen tool, how to change fill and stroke options 10:32 how to change preview resolution 10:54 trim paths 15:58 expressions 17:16 layer management and hot key shortcuts 18:26 combining keyframes and expressions 20:47 expressions: time* 21:42 parenting 22:41 parenting and character rigging 25:37 masks 27:05 precomposing and how it helps with troubleshooting in After Effects 28:06 dragging video clips to the new composition button for perfect settings matching 28:31 mask settings 28:48 Mask feather verse the mask feather tool in pen tool 30:32 green screen removal with effect: keylight 32:57 ALpha Mattes,Luma Mattes and how to invert them 36:25 pen tool, animating shape paths 37:38 animating paths with nulls- Window:Create Nulls from Paths 38:20 using nulls to animate path points 38:41 sample character rig using paths and nulls to animate an arm or leg 40:27 parenting a hand or foot to the null animating your arm rig 41:40 how to 3D enable layers and Parallax effect 43:58 adding a camera to our scene 44:51 using the camera tools in toolbar 46:08 adding a light into the scene 47:01 parenting a camera to a 3d enabled null to animate a camera more easily 48:37 how to create a flythrough effect with ALpha Matte Invert and a solid layer 50:32 pushing your animations and thinking them through 50:58 effect: CC Bender and using crosshairs in effects 51:44 using a wiggle expression to animate the bend effect randomly 52:14 the rotation settings explained 52:47 displacement maps 55:17 effect: roughen edges 56:11 alpha, positive and negative space, plus BOUNDING BOXES- troubleshooting in after effects 58:41 creating custom particles and using them in Particle World

1. How to colorize greyscale textures- Effect: tint 2. How to colorize greyscale textures- Effect: Colorama 3. How to colorize greyscale textures- Color layer and blending modes 4. How to colorize greyscale textures- Effect: tint 5. Using Effect: Curves to adjust values of greyscale texture for a more dramatic look 6. How to colorize greyscale textures- Effect: 4 color gradient

1. CNTRL SPACEBAR shortcut for full screen 2. Node tree discussion 3. Tips for using AddOn: Node Wrangler 4. tips for using Bump node 5. Recap: Bridge Edge Loops to create our railing 6. troubleshooting your modeling 7. looking critically at your scene, does it follow what you observe in the real world 8. fixing model issues and SMart UV project 9. Instances vs Duplicating OBJECTS 10. Creating Emission from OBjects to add light into our scene 11. Instancing Lights and why it is useful 12. Render settings 13. How to run render time tests, and changing settings for faster renders 14. Compositing 15. Glare node discussion 16. V and ALT V shortcuts to zoom in and out of Compositor view