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1. Lining up Audio in After Effects 2. Getting Keyframes from audio in AFter Effects 3. Discussion on BlenderKit addon 4. editing video clips in After Effects ALT [ and ALT ] 5. Recap on usein Effect: Keylight 6. Effect: Spill SUppressor 7. How to Use Alpha Mattes, ALpha Invert, Luma Mattes and Luma invert

Edit Mode discussion How to duplicate an OBJ in edit mode and edit its Transofmrations Why yuou should Rotate OBJs while viewing them from a straight on view selection modes recap deleting the top faces that are pointing towards one another edge loop selection recap Bridge Edge loop to join 2 OBJs together that are not touching Bridge Edge Loop fine tuning with the review panel Bridge Edge Loop recap applying more than 1 material to the same OBJ 2 materials on same OBJ recap How to enable the Add On: Node Wrangler Blender Materials location in CANVAS Setting up our Subway Scene from a CUBE removing the face pointing toward the viewer to make our hallway moving our point light Setting up PBR texture using NODE WRANGLER: CNTRL SHIFT T adjusting the scale of our Texture using the MAPPING Node going to EDIT mode to add a 2nd PBR material to our cube adjusting the scale of our 2nd Texture using the MAPPING Node creating steps from the floor with E extrude modeling tip: P key- Separate Selection Trouble shooting the ARRAY modifier TAB back to OBJ mode then apply an ARRAY modifier on our stairs Explaining 1 value in ARRAY modifier turn off Floor grid in Overlays Troubleshooting and adjusting texture on steps Duplicating and editing a Material in Materials Panel Creating our hand rail from a Cylinder Adding Loop cuts for better shading CNTRL R Duplicating the railing shape in EDIT mode and Rotating it in side view 3 for face select to delete the 2 faces of railing pointing towards one another Edge loop selecting the edges around the open faces Bridge EDGE LOOP to join the 2 pieces of railing together Adding Shade Smooth to Rail

Setting up and User Interface Intro to Render Settings Changing the Layout Workspace tabs Object Mode and Edit Mode Main Transform Shortcuts explained N panel and Applying Transforms Camera to view Adding some Add Ons Moving the Camera, and Using Camera to View Enlarging view of Render area in 3d Viewport 3D cursor Adding Objects into your scene Making Selections Extrude and Inset Circle shape and Review Panel Selecting a whole Edge Loop F to fill edges with a face Switching from wireframe to shaded mode in Viewport discussing Edge Flow in your mesh Shade Smooth fix bad shading from Shade Smooth- Auto Smoth Normals Perspective vs ortho view Beveling and why to do it hold shift while doing transforms for more control Loop Cuts and Slide- how and why Bool Tool Add On Boolean Modifier, and adjusting your Bool Cut Artifacts- Overlapping verts, avoid them

00:00 After Effects update 03-20-23 what settings to change 01:03 Animation break down 01:12 Glow effect - adjusting threshold and adding a wiggle expression to it 03:42 Rendering 04:49 animation scene discussion 05:32 changing your workspace 05:47 scene discussion 06:04 animating a butterfly wing (top view front on to camera) 06:54 discussion on animating bird wings 07:10 animating side view bird wing with puppet pins 09:14 scene recap 09:50 butterfly wing recap 11:08 precompose puppet pinned birds, and animate the position of the precomp 11:30 h264 vs Quicktime as a render setting 11:46 scene discussion 12:23 Effects: Optics Compensation and UnMult 16:51 Homework due Wednesday 16:58 animation discussion 19:09 designing off of displamcement maps

Export from Premiere to Color Grade in DaVinci Resolve

Covered in video: Paths Follow Nulls Expression: Wiggle Expression: Time* Alpha Mattes Displacement Maps Effect: Turbulent Displace Parenting Texturing Blending Modes Precomposing Easing Keyframes Speed Graph 3D enabling Layers Parallax Adding Audio Looking at Audio Waveforms to line up sound in timeline

00:00 setting up 00:28 Install the Add ons: RIgift and Skinify 00:53 Adding our animal armature 01:17 using Skinify to create our base mesh 03:07 Sculpt mode brush review 04:20 Hot Keys while in Sculpt Mode F and SHIFT F 05:12 Inflate Brush to cretae our Base Mesh 09:47 Making sure rig bones are covered by base mesh 10:34 Edit mode P Separate by Loose Parts 11:00 cleaning up Mesh issues 11:34 the View Shading Tab in Viewport 11:47 Sculpt Mode : ReMesh drop down 12:23 Object Mode : make all shapes 1 mesh CNTRL J 12:59 Edit mode fixing the tail tip 13:31 making sure bones are lined up with mesh : bring bones to the front 14:13 Apply all transforms to Rig and Base Mesh 14:30 Rigify: generate Rig 14:56 Parenting our Base Mesh to the Rig 15:44 Pose Mode to test out our character rig! 16:01 Animating in Pose mode, explaining how the rig works 17:07 Natural Resting pose of character 17:12 animation workflow

00:00 intro 00:45 start of lecture 01:23 The Knife tool in Edit Mode 02:13 CNTRL R loop cuts recap 02:42 selection recap 1,2,3 edge-vert-face 02:52 dissolve edges 03:28 Circle selection tool 04:32 recap on new editing tools 05:13 setting up scene for our Bouncing Ball Animation 05:17 World Origin, 3d Cursor, and Object origin explained 06:10 UV Sphere vs Ico Sphere 07:00 setting up our camera view 08:36 Animation workflow discussion 08:58 Object Origin Point explained and how to change it 09:51 hiding the plane to see bottom of sphere 10:14 changing location of 3d curser to selection 11:59 Object Mode: Set Origin to 3D cursor 12:38 Origin point explanation of how it influences motion and animation 13:22 how to keyframe in Blender using Auto Keyframe mode 14:17 planning our motion 14:52 Object Properties panel 15:06 how to keyframe in Blender PROFESSIONALLY 15:39 Starting 1st drop of our bouncing ball 16:18 setting up the 1st rise from floor plane 16:49 planning the 2nd time ball drops towards plane 17:22 Adjusting render length of timeline to loop your animations faster 17:53 planning out our Squash and Stretch to the bouncing ball 18:48 setting up 1st Stretch keyframe 19:02 setting up 2nd Stretch keyframe 19:54 setting up our Squash on impact 20:36 setting up our Stretch as ball rises from impact 21:10 setting up ball to be a perfect circle again before it reaches top of its bounce upwards 21:49 setting up ball dropping down again- 2nd Stretch 22:45 setting up 2nd squash on impact to plane 23:02 ball ends on a perfect circle again 24:26 using the graph Editor 26:41 using the Gizmo to see what axis you want to transform along in Viewport 30:16 Animating the camera 34:24 recap 35:52 Adding a Material, Render and render settings 44:08 HDRIs 45:53 fine tuning our material and render settings

00:00 Import footage 00:25 project panel 00:41 creating a sequence from footage 01:05 explaining the workspace 01:28 beginner way to edit 01:47 editing in the source monitor panel 02:44 icons in project panel, adding bins 03:33 dragging clips into timeline 04:17 professional workflow for editing 05:38 CMND K, CNTRL K to cut exactly where playhead is 05:52 Arrow keys on keyboard for editing 05:59 editing tips 06:17 timecode explained 06:34 ripple deleting gaps in timeline 06:44 selection arrow tool 06:49 track fwd or back tool 07:11 layers in timeline and timeline management 08:32 keyframing in Premiere 09:32 zooming in and out of timelines 09:57 working with text in Premiere 11:00 changing workspaces 11:23 audio meter 11:34 adding transitions 12:54 using audio meter to level and mix your audio tracks 14:09 audio hardware- setting your input and output 15:17 cleaning audio in Premiere with audio effects 16:06 audio effect: DeNoise 16:51 audio effect: DeReverb 17:26 audio effect: Parametric Equalizer 19:08 audio effect: Dynamics Processing 19:37 soundwaves explained 20:56 audio effect: Dynamics 22:23 audio effect: Multiband Compressor 23:31 adjusting volume of clips 24:05 double arrow at end of timeline 24:22 adjusting volume of multiple tracks at once 25:19 audio volume standards 26:11 adjusting speed of video clips 27:13 scene edit detection 28:24 pro level video editing tips 29:14 Unlink and Link audio and video 29:47 2 sides to every cut 30:20 setting up for Slide edit 31:06 Slip Edit tool 34:48 Slide Edit tool 36:11 setting up for Rolling Edit vs Ripple Edit 37:13 changing and setting render area in timeline 37:38 Ripple Edit & timeline duration 38:35 Rolling Edit Tool and timeline duration 39:51 preparing to Render your timeline 40:57 Render settings and which to use 44:15 setting label colors for clips in timeline

00:00 creating a looping animation and precomposing it 06:22 importing looped precomp into our main animation scene and animating its position 06:55 figuring out where to stop looped animation and how to do it 08:09 using custom particles to create a crowd 19:11 animating camera to get parallax with particles and our scene

00:00 intro 00:32 shortcut keys F and SHIFT F 01:40 how to Add a Grease Pemcil Stroke into 2d scene 02:24 adding Grease pencil Stroke in a 3d scene 02:44 Draw on 3d surfaces with Grease Pencil- settings 03:00 Origin: changing it to Surface 03:18 Origin: adjusting the Offset distance to the OBJ surface 03:40 Switch to Orthographic mode when drawing on 3d OBJ to keep grease pencil on the surface 04:58 Adjust Offset so Grease Pencil sits on surface better 05:34 Recap 06:06 Right Click: Smooth Grease Pencil in Edit Mode 06:29 SHIFT R to repeat the Smooth operation we just did 06:51 Converting a Grease Pencil to a Path 07:13 Adding a Bevel, increasing its resolution and fill caps to the Path to give it depth 07:38 Converting our Path to a Mesh 07:51 Recap 09:31 Setting up empty room front view 10:11 using shape tools with Grease Pencil 11:47 Reprojecting Grease Pencil into 3D perspective 12:47 adjusting Stroke settings for Grease Pencil in the properties panel 13:36 Animating Hand Drawn text with Grease Pencil 14:01 Add Modifier: Build 14:32 Add Modifier: Noise 15:37 Grease Pencil applied to a Collection 16:40 Line Art Modifier 17:03 Light Reference in Line Art Modifier 18:08 2D Grease Pencil 18:28 Layers and Materials for Grease Pencil 2D 18:54 Paint Bucket to fill in 19:08 Sculpt mode 19:18 Animating Fill & Stroke together in Sculpt mode 19:47 Draw mode: Interpolate Sequence to tween our animation 20:57 Animating the camera in our 2d animation 22:44 Sculpt Mode make Grease Pencil thick and thin in 3d space 23:45 Adding Grease Pencil to 3d surface with Thick and thin stroke

00:00 intro 00:15 Edit Mode discussion 00:31 How to duplicate an OBJ in edit mode and edit its Transformations 00:58 Why you should Rotate OBJs while viewing them from a straight on view 01:53 selection modes recap 02:00 deleting the top faces that are pointing towards one another 02:24 edge loop selection recap 03:09 Bridge Edge loop to join 2 OBJs together that are not touching 03:26 Bridge Edge Loop fine tuning with the review panel 03:57 Bridge Edge Loop recap 04:56 applying more than 1 material to the same OBJ 08:25 2 materials on same OBJ recap 08:52 How to enable the Add On: Node Wrangler 09:27 Blender Materials location in CANVAS 10:09 Setting up our Subway Scene from a CUBE 10:34 removing the face pointing toward the viewer to make our hallway 10:50 moving our point light 11:41 Setting up PBR texture using NODE WRANGLER: CNTRL SHIFT T 13:04 adjusting the scale of our Texture using the MAPPING Node 14:28 going to EDIT mode to add a 2nd PBR material to our cube 15:34 adjusting the scale of our 2nd Texture using the MAPPING Node 16:27 creating steps from the floor with E extrude 17:25 modeling tip: P key- Separate Selection 19:06 Trouble shooting the ARRAY modifier 19:18 TAB back to OBJ mode then apply an ARRAY modifier on our stairs 20:25 Explaining 1 value in ARRAY modifier 20:55 turn off Floor grid in Overlays 21:06 Troubleshooting and adjusting texture on steps 22:50 Duplicating and editing a Material in Materials Panel 25:01 Creating our hand rail from a Cylinder 26:12 Adding Loop cuts for better shading CNTRL R 27:09 Duplicating the railing shape in EDIT mode and Rotating it in side view 28:34 3 for face select to delete the 2 faces of railing pointing towards one another 28:59 Edge loop selecting the edges around the open faces 29:22 Bridge EDGE LOOP to join the 2 pieces of railing together 30:12 Adding Shade Smooth to Rail 30:21 OBJECT DATA Properties panel - Normals - Auto Smooth, turn on to fix shading 30:48 Node Tree discussion for Procedural Texture 32:22 Creating our procedural texture node tree 38:34 fine tuning our textures in node tree 40:14 adjusting our camera in the scene 41:00 Adjusting our final touches in Eevee Render settings 41:27 World Setting- adding a HDRI environment map 42:11 adjusting world settings 43:29 adjusting our texture node tree once HDRI has been added to the scene 44:14 Recap 44:55 NODE TREE up for examining 45:25 Switching from Eevee render settings to Cycles 46:04 Adjusting world settings once in Cycles 46:24 render settings in Cycles 47:53 compression test and render strategy 48:51 review of a variation of procedural texture node tree 49:21 review of a far more complex node tree 50:30 how to break a node strand

00:00 Homework 02 specs 00:33 Pushing Animation- Luma Matte from scene 01 into scene 02 of Animation 05:05 OBS screen recording set up for audio 06:17 fixing character rig JOIN issues with circles same width as limbs 09:21 setting up main animation precomp 10:38 Using Adjustment layer to fake camera motion in our scene Using the Transform Effect 11:07 Using Procedural texturing in Blender to create an Anime style river with just nodes 33:03 using a displacement node experimenting

After Effects: Mattes interface changed: Alpha Matte Luma Matte Alpha Inverted Matte Luma Inverted Matte C4D Lite: Tools layout changed. Where to find: Primitves, Splines, Nurbs and Floor

00:00 Visemes and Head Precomp set up 04:22 swapping out viseme shapes in timeline 06:54 cc particle world and Floor physics to make rain bounce off of a car 14:51 leaf as a particle system- making leaf 16:06 fractal noise to texture leaf, Alpha Mattes and Blending modes 17:42 adding leaf custom particle into the scene 25:11 Getting more rotation from a cartoony foot drawn in Photoshop 29:36 making a hanging lantern sway, Photoshop file 39:21 getting hair drawn in Photoshop to sway using puppet pins

00:00 Intro 00:38 Duplicate OBJ vs instance 04:19 X-Ray mode when making selections 07:44 Bevel Vertices 08:38 Bevel and adjusting using the Review Panel 09:51 Symmetrize 11:00 Modifiers and nondestructive workflow 11:18 Mirror Modifier 13:39 Subdivide and Discussion on Hard Surface objects 16:25 Mark Sharp in Edit mode 19:00 Recap on enabling Add Ons 19:35 Bool Tool Recap 22:09 Switching to Rendered View 22:19 Adding A Sun light to the scene 22:57 Changing the timeline panel to the Shader Editor 24:54 Bevel Node tree explained 27:13 Multiple Objects joined together with Bool Tool: Union 28:22 Array Modifier 30:05 Array Modifier combined with the Curve Modifier 37:38 Overlays settings and Normals 39:21 ALT N or OPTION N to Flip Normals also Recalculate outside

00:00 Creating a robot with random motion 10:41 using our robot as a custom particle 17:27 Using the same element but with CC repetile instead 24:12 Creating a car bobble using wiggle exprrssion and parenting 30:17 How to change Caps and Joins in Illustrator

00:00 Setting up and User Interface 2:12 Intro to Render Settings 06:32 Changing the Layout 08:45 Workspace tabs 09:27 Object Mode and Edit Mode 10:03 Main Transform Shortcuts explained 13:43 N panel and Applying Transforms 15:35 Camera to view 15:49 Adding some Add Ons 17:08 Moving the Camera, and Using Camera to View 19:07 Enlarging view of Render area in 3d Viewport 20:10 3D cursor 21:07 Adding Objects into your scene 21:50 Making Selections 23:04 Extrude and Inset 25:50 Circle shape and Review Panel 28:00 Selecting a whole Edge Loop 29:22 F to fill edges with a face 29:54 Switching from wireframe to shaded mode in Viewport 30:37 discussing Edge Flow in your mesh 31:32 Shade Smooth 32:25 fix bad shading from Shade Smooth- Auto Smoth Normals 37:14 Perspective vs ortho view 38:32 Beveling and why to do it 42:54 hold shift while doing transforms for more control 44:12 Loop Cuts and Slide- how and why 46:41 Bool Tool Add On 49:45 Boolean Modifier, and adjusting your Bool Cut 53:45 Artifacts- Overlapping verts, avoid them

creating and animating a finger creating and animating an arm with nulls and parenting adding a hand to the arm that is parented to the nulls swapping out hand shapes and keeping them parented to the rig

00:00 Using Audio in AFter Effects 00:53 Recap How to Render 02:57 Using Media Encoder to compress the video and change the MOV to a H264 mp4 file 04:28 adjusting custom particle system 13:45 Class After Effects files form lectures on Canvas 14:05 making a vignette 18:10 Recap on making "Jazz Hands" woth expression parented to a slider control 26:33 royalty free sound effects and music in YouTube 29:36 Changing wiggle expression after parented to the Slider Control 30:55 recap: Vignette 36:01 Effect: CC Light Sweep to add light to text under a spot light

00:00 Turn off Enable Multi Frame Rendering 00:33 Importing images for custom particles 00:47 How to Bring back a closed Timeline 1:26 Effect: CC Particle World 1:58 What is a Particle? 02:34 The Effects Control Panel- how to find it 02:47 Producers and Canons 03:09 Watch your particle count, how many there are 03:48 Your workflow using Particles 04:19 Physics Section 04:41 Resistance- weakens or strengthens your particle engine 05:57 Fine tuning Particle system motion 06:06 Velocity 06:31 Gravity 07:11 Extras 07:40 Extra Angle 08:16 Dialing in the location of your particle system in your scene 08:36 Producer 09:24 Radius 10:01 Particle type, how to change it 10:29 Textured Square, Textured Disc and Texture Faded Disc- making custom particles 12:31 Texture: Adding in your custom particle 12:39 Creating a custom particle 15:10 creating our Cloud particle form a still png 15:28 Always make sure whole custom particle fits inside the precomp for it 15:53 Adding Custom Particle precomp into our scene with the particle system in it 16:37 How to access the Effect once you click off of it 16:54 adding in our custom particle to the Texture Layer 17:15 recap how to get back to an effect by clicking on the layer that has it 17:25 Window- Effects Controls 17:44 Fine Tuning Particle settings to get the look you want 18:01 Birth size and Death size 18:41 size variation 18:51 Maximum Opacity- thinking through the density of your particle in the scene 19:33 Particle color change from Birth to Death, and how to keep color from image or video you used. 20:13 Opacity Map, and how to change it 20:50 Speeding up the particles and having them move faster 21:43 Custom Color Map 22:08 transfer Mode inside particle system 22:28 Longevity and Birth Rate 22:35 Pushing your initial idea 23:49 Animating still image used for custom particle 24:02 Turbulent Displace with the Time Expression on Evolution 26:03 recap- what are particles and what do they do 26:15 Boris Particle Illusion- Free particle system 27:30 Using same custom particle precomp to swap in a new custom particle 28:36 Texture faded disc vs Textured Disc vs Textured Square- how each changes what the particle looks like and how it is placed! 29:14 Scatter in particle system 30:09 Rotation Spread 30:17 video as a particle 32:23 adjusting video clip in custom particle precomp 35:10 setting up our particle system 37:34 Adding the fire video clip as a custom particle 39:51 texture Time for video clips 42:18 making our particle system greyscale to use as a displacement map

00:00 changing mouth shape layers BRAINSTORMING 04:40 Effect: Radial Wipe 08:58 Effect: Cc Bender to add life to tuft of hair 14:02 fine tuning mouth transitions 14:57 Brainstorming, failed idea- scaling inwards for mouth 16:00 setting up file for RECAP on video as alpha matte and displacement map 17:05 getting files from CANVAS 17:54 importing video clips to use as our VFX 18:07 finding a good spot to key out green from footage 18:52 setting up our Alpha Matte 20:31 Using our Alpha Matte footage as a displacement map 22:39 Effect: Displacement Map to use with our greyscale alpha matte footage 24:32 discussing layer management with VFX 25:28 Making Cartoon character do "Jazz Hands" with Wiggle Expression parented to Slider Control 26:10 Selecting multiple layers in timeline vs Composition Panel 26:55 Setting up Wiggle Expression for hands 28:14 Adding an Adjustment Layer and Effect: Slider Control 28:55 What each of the 3 different pickwhips do 29:16 Shortcut key E for effect 29:31 Parenting expression with pickwhip to slider control 29:54 Slider Control explained 31:17 Review animation project 2 Alien Eye Blink 31:46 Changing timing of Eye Blink 32:35 Window: Effects Controls 33:08 Changing from 8BPC to 32 BPC for light effects 34:04 Using Adjustment Layer and Effect: Exposure 35:49 failed Brainstorming 37:15 Successful Brainstorming: changing time & speed of animation 37:43 Right Click - Time - Time Stretch 39:23 Animation review- thinking through Fawn animation 40:06 Creating 2 split timelines stacked on top of one another 41:31 parenting across stacked timelines 42:45 Fixing Alpha Matte issues- fawn body in alpha matte, antlers breaking through it 52:03 Brainstorming- Displacements for film flapping in the wind, multiple techniques discussed 1:02:09 Custom Particles, floor physics - intro to cc particle world

00:00 Importing the artwork 00:43 Setting up the scene 02:11 changing upscaling quality 03:05 Planning our animation out 04:35 Turbulent Displace discussion 06:38 Discussing our keyframing 07:43 Discussing our keyframe interpolation and Speed Graph 09:18 Fine Tuning our Effect: Turbulent Displacement 11:14 Duplicating our final motion and editing it to add interest 11:49 navigating the color grid 12:20 Flip Horizontal 12:35 Layer stack order to get look we want 12:41 offsetting layers and layer management 13:37 Planning out our Alpha Mattes and Precomposing 15:01 animation plan setting our Mattes 16:12 Planning out Logo animation 18:50 Pro way of planning out Alpha Mattes, getting more complex with them 21:02 Effect: Fill to change color of logo 21:26 Adding in bubbles to soda 22:58 Effect: Curves to color correct bubbles 23:22 fine tuning the animation 24:45 Edit: Purge- All memory and Disc Cache

After my morning coffee, I was able to trouble shoot last night's lab issue. We had green screen film burning. We were able to use that to animate off a logo. But displacement and distress were now working. Here is the full workflow for: Green screen removal using that clip as an alpha matte duplicating it to see the film burn and use it as an alpha matte duplicating it a 3rd time, making it greyscale setting the grey scale up for a displacement map applying the displacement map to our logo

0:00 placing VFX footage 00:25 Effect: Keylight to remove Green Screen 01:23 Thinking through your visual effect 06:40 Using Blending modes to help composite noise into your scene 08:00 trick to find files fast in After Effects- Reveal 10:33 Distortion Effects