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00:00 file set up 00:30 Effect: Fractal Noise 00:43 Creating our dust 02:29 Fractal presets in drop down menu 03:42 Animating texture: dust 04:53 Dialing in your look after expression is added 05:37 Creating hair by duplicating the dust layer 06:59 Effect: Turbulent Displace to make hair bend 07:52 Troubleshooting: Double clicking on a layer, opening Layer panel 08:05 Fine tuning Hair look 08:26 Blending mode change to see both noise layers, remove black background 09:09 Adjusting turbulent Displace effect 10:01 Compositing your animated dust and hair over your scene 11:03 Effect: Invert and blending mode Multiply 12:15 Using ALpha Mattes to put animated texture inside a shape layer 13:15 Duplicating Precomps in the Project Panel to create templates to work off of 13:46 Enhancing your animation: files in Canvas 14:21 Grabbing files form Canvas 15:27 Leaders, Light Leaks, Lens Flares- how to use them 16:08 How to use Light Leaks 17:06 How to use Leaders 20:18 How to use part of a Light Leak 22:32 How to use a Lens Flare 25:11 How to use particle video on blac background 27:14 Canvas- Ink drop videos location 27:41 How to use ink drops filmed on white 30:08 How to Speed up or slow down video clips in After Effects 31:07 Effect: film burn

00:00 Effect: Inner Shadow - animating shadow across art 2:36 thinking through your keyframes, using the add keyframe button 05:25 Importing Illustrator art 07:50 Changing artboard to be HDTV setting in Illustrator 08:40 Release layers to Sequence in Illustrator 09:30 breaking apart art and moving it to new layers in Illustrator 18:30 Importing the new artwork and keeping all the layers 19:15 continuously rasterize the Illustrator layers 19:44 thinking through where to put the Anchor Point and Parenting your Character 23:00 Setting up an Alpha Matte for the eye, and parenting it to the visible eye 27:04 trouble shoting Effect: Turbulent Displace 31:51 Animating film strips with shape layers 39:33 Adding Effect: Glow to Photoshop art and animating it with an Expression 42:41 Effect Curtain and making it a Displacement map 48:06 Importing Illsutrator Character and retaining its layers 49:01 Startegy for Parenting together Character and Anchor Point positioning

00:00 intro 00:38 setting up 3D enabled layers 00:49 Gizmo- anchor point on a 3d layer 1:41 Adding a camera to your 3D scene 1:50 Focal length explained 2:45 Aperture and Focal Distance 3:15 Iris Shape and how it affects blur quality 4:16 Dragging Art into Project Panel to import 4:31 Creative use of Parallax, 2.5D layers 5:34 Effect: Extract- used to remove parts of image based off of light and dark values 6:20 Blending modes Screen & Multiply 7:54 setting up layers for Parallax 8:42 Camera Setting: FStop 8:52 Laying out the layers in 3D space for Parallax 9:28 The Camera Control Tools in toolbar 10:52 Keyframing Camera for zoom into the scene 11:03 Adding a light into the 3D scene 11:28 Fine Tuning Lihgt Settings once it is in the scene 11:48 Material Options for a layer, Cast Shadows 12:11 Moving a Light in your 3D scene 12:31 Adding a Parallel Light to your Scene 14:12 Animating Camera - 2 different ways 15:47 Clean up- fixing scale and position once cameras are moved 16:01 Adding a Wiggle Expression to the Spotlight to have it flickering 17:49 Adjusting Aperture and Focus Distance for Camera once scene is animated 18:46 Experiment with the values and parameters of effects, lights and layers 19:37 Talking through how to push this animation further 20:20 Trim paths- multiple ways to execute motion 20:51 Converting a text layer to shapes in After Effects 21:14 how to Shy a layer 22:53 Using Offset to adjust where trim path motion begins 23:37 The pro way to do Trim Paths 25:26 Using Trim Path as an Alpha Matte to draw on thick and thin and keep any texture as well 26:56 Deep Dive into Path Stroke options 27:42 Stroke - Line Caps 28:11 Stroke - Line Join 28:3- Stroke: Taper 28:45 Stroke: Add Dashes 29:35 Stroke: Wave 29:55 Time Expression on Phase of Wave setting 30:33 Shape layers and pen tool - single layer vs multiple layer 31:07 Shape Layer: Add: Merge Paths 31:41 Masks: animating path, feathering, expand/contract 33:50 Mask Feather pen tool 36:06 Parenting 37:52 Using a Null Object to control a camera with Parenting 39:22 Camera motion tips 40:54 Alpha Matte vs Luma Matte vs Luma Invert Matte 47:49 Alpha Matte vs Alpha Invert Matte, Flythrough like Stranger Things 51:27 Kerning in After Effects 51:54 Masking Animated Text vs using an Alpha Matte 56:07 Alpha Invert Matte with only 2 layers- what happens 56:40 Lab Time

00:00 Watching current animation 00:26 Using Previous and Next arrows to line up playhead for making keyframes 00:34 working backwards to get perfect layout and motion 1:09 Using ALpha Mattes 03:04 Flipping text to make a reflection 04:02 Using Adjustment layers so effects apply to all layers below it 04:33 Effect: Ripple 05:46 Applying a Mask to an Adjustment Layer so it doesn't affect whole composition 07:16 Using a Gradient as a Luma Matte to have reflection gradually fade off 08:17 Shape Layer- Add: Gradient Fill for more control over gradients 08:47 Trouble Shooting Mattes 10:41 Adjusting Gradient with Luma Matte on for better fine tuning 12:02 Effect: Corner Pin to add perspective 13:37 Creating a Blur map to use with Effect: Camera Lens Blur 16:25 Editing a gradient Fill to make Blur Map work 17:30 Adjusting Effect Controls for Camera Lens Blur once Blur Map is setup 18:37 Layer Styles on text 19:41 Animating light and shadow with Inner Shadow layer style 26:29 Trouble shooting effect CC STar Burst 30:23 How to render in After Effects 32:28 Using Media Encoder to convert file format and compress video 34:29 Watch render to see if animation needs tweaking 35:40 Trouble shooting star speed 38:00 Setting a small render area to test animation and render faster 44:29 Clean, well made vs overly complex and poorly executed 44:49 Warner Bros Independant logo 46:14 Edit - Purge - All media and disk cache

00:00 Eye blinks - oval non-uniformly scaled on Y axis vs animating a shape path- creates a look of drag and friction and moves more naturally 07:55 Importing Illustrator files and Continuously Rasterizing Layers, toggle switches and modes 09:23 Character Rigging and anchor point placement 10:38 Adding Expressions to layers for adding constant life to your character 11:50 Effect: CC Bender and using Expressions with it to make ears wobble, and hair sway 13:03 Parenting layers together, strategy and hierarchy 14:56 Radial Design with the Index Expression 15:45 Time Expression to add constant life and motion to animation elements 16:44 Time Expression in Turbulent Noise for constant motion 17:35 adding in Time Expression from Scratch, whole process for adding in Expressions 18:15 Adjusting Offset Turbulence in an Effect 18:56 Using Fractal as a Displacement Map & Using Adjustment Layers with Effects 20:23 Parenting Spokes to a Bike Wheel, Using Expression to Parent Rotation to Position 21:09 Deep Dive Editing Star Shape to get Radial Spoke look 22:00 Parenting Shape Layers together 22:31 Adding Expression to Rotation and Pickwhipping so as wheel moves, spokes rotate 23:52 LoopOut Expression vs LoopOut"pingpong" Expression 27:14 Adding Pause time to Looping motion, example: Eye Blinks 29:04 Copying KeyFrames and Time Reversing them 30:27 Faking 360 degree Rotation of a Light House light beam 33:34 Adjusting Shape Path to get perspective you want before animating it 36:31 Mechanical Motion recap for KeyFrame Interpolation 36:43 Adjusting keyframe timing HOLDING ALT or OPTION as you drag them in timeline 37:11 Light Effects and softening Harsh Geometric Shape Layers 39:51 Reversing KeyFrame Animation of light house beam 40:36 Deciding spot to Split Layers to cheat the beam going around the back of Light House 41:59 Adding a Shape Layer Mask to face a window to Light House to see light pass behind it 43:31 Having Light Interact with Characters 44:17 CC Light Sweep to art layers to REALLY sell Light Interacting with Characters

00:00 walk cycle 15:06 walk cycle with follow through and overlapping action 30:47 New file vs New Comp vs Precomp vs Nesting 31:44 shape layer masks 35:39 Shape layer with multiple shapes in it and Add: Merge Paths 39:35 Effect: CC Starburst 43:02 Recap New comp vs Precomp vs Nesting

How to color a single cut with a label, bypassing the default apply color to all instances of the clip in the timeline. How to get out of the export tab, and back into your timeline to continue editing.

Using After Effects and expressions to animate a bird.

Troubleshooting in Duik Working on timing particles pacing for animation and finding ways to make your motion motivated

Week 13 Adobe Premiere Video Editing Lecture A Beginner workflow Video editing very easy to learn, people will assume you know how to edit video if you know motion design- that is why it is part of this course Basics of video editing: Gather all of your footage Use only best takes and strongest pieces Use only the parts you need, trim out the unwanted sections and extra frames What you take out is as important as what you keep in- how much does your story need, and when is it just too much Come in on a good frame and go out on a good frame Assemble your cuts in the timeline in the order you want to tell your story the way you want it told- not always told in order it was shot. Some movies are told out of order or backwards STarting from scratch- hit New Project button Import footage: Double click in empty spot in project panel- like in AE Go file - import - file Click and drag into the project panel, like in AE The 4 panels: Project panel- just like AE this is where you store all of your footage, music, audio files, and motion design and photos Timeline- where you assemble your clips, just like in AE Tools for editing keep vertical by timeline Be in the EDITING workspace 2 monitors at top- Source and Program Source- video clip before any effects put on it in timeline, the way it came out of the camera Program monitor- end result. What the viewer will see, all post production work applied, shows spot the playhead is at in timeline. This is just like the composition window in after effects- the movie screen the audience will see when final project is rendered Audio levels bar Check footage to see if it was all shot the same The bare bones of editing recap Scrub, watch clip, choose where to come in and where to go out on, In and out frames Grab left and right edge , drag, just like changing layers in AE (Selection Arrow TOOL) This is the beginner approach to editing, change beginning and end of each clip, now we will move on to a more professional workflow B. Professional workflow Pacing and rhythm are crucial in video editing.LIke pauses while we speak. Viewer needs time to absorb things Watch 2 witch clips Discuss 2 stories Camera motion, vs POV style Now we will begin our professional editing workflow Project panel- Thumbnail vs list view- storyboarding Double click on video clip in project panel to open it in the Source MOnitor above project panel Source monitor Playhead for scrubbing- in timeline (story) vs source monitor (where you are in the clip selected) Arrow keys on keyboard explained shortcuts Getting down to the exact frame is the professional way to edit I & O in & ut, explain, show buttons as well (every clip has one) Dark grey viewer won’t see, light grey, will see- like render area in AE (head & tail) Preview resolution- how to lower it for slower computers Always shoot more than you need, gives you more choices as an editor, best to leave a few extra seconds at start and end of what you film for transitions if you want to add them in. Hover over source monitor- click and drag (hand icon) AV grab, just V just A Drag to timeline from Source monitor My workflow- seqs, duplicate seqs. Labeling, bins etc. Blue boxes, layers, add/deleting (up & down arrows depend on this) Scene detection right click, frame hold 2 sides to a cut, CMND K CNTRL K at playhead (or razor tool) Moving to another layer Multi track move tool. Eye icon hide, mute, solo audio Multi layer, eye hidden for hiding things, multicam shoot or motion graphics

Week 13 Adobe Premiere Video Editing lecture B Beginner workflow recap Razor tool, CMND CNTRL K recap Ripple edit vs Rolling edit Unlink vs ALT OPTION dragging- synchronous media- watch out! Copyright free music reminder, keeping it separate Add tracks/delete Track fwd/Bkwd tool (multi layer)- locking layers so they don’t move Slip & slide tools, slip under slide over, icons change based where mouse is Commercial work, each shot its best, in short cuts Transitions (add to beginning, end of clip or in between cuts)- show clips- most basic transitions why use them, dip, cross dissolve, linear wipe Text (TYPE TOOL), keyframing (scaling video- 1:1 ratio whenever possible) ( keyframe interpolation) (fade off on 4 keyframes) Audio, wav files, volume meter, level vs keyframe fading Rendering, setting render bars, compression output/source Format Compression Frame rate and why audio fades out of sync Setting up for a compression test, short render, give client best quality video for websites (20mg max for some) bit rate quality/size Clear in & out of time line Audio uniform changes Color correction Mixing levels

Intro to : 1 point motion tracking 2 point motion tracking Facial feature tracking Rotoscoping Rotoscoping Refine Edges Content aware fill

Puppet pinning a boneless character- octopus Puppet pinning a more complex character Parenting Puppet pins to nulls for more professional motion Expression for puppet pin rig: option click on the pin for the left hip, copy in code: n=thisComp.layer("whatever you named the left hip null") nullpos=n.toComp(n.anchorPoint); fromComp(nullpos); How to create a simple walk cycle Using Puppet Starch pins to add bones, slid parts that do not bend Labtime Scale wipe effect Drawing on extensions to letters to use trim paths to animate them into your scene intro to motion tracking video footage and adding a null, parenting text to the null to follow the camera as it moves Using text as an alpha matte and placing video inside of it Using layer start points to add text appearing like magic from behind a moving object Creating a displacement map using noise, adding CC Glass, and making that a matte to reveal a video clip with a fly through effect

A brief look at going beyond solid fill shape layers and using texture, noise blending modes for more style Shape layer parenting to create complex character rigs Deep look into shape layers for character animation parenting fill and stroke shapes to move together in fingers parenting fill and stroke to get arm and leg creases with motion and more.

A look at layout, slow in slow out, anticipation, overshoot, follow through and overlapping action, arcs and applying that to motion design.

Intro 00:00. Parallax 00:29. Compositing Your Scene- Levels Effect 04:11. Compositing Your Scene- Hue Saturation Effect 11:06. Compositing Your Scene- Gaussian Blur Effect 11:50. Compositing Your Scene- Camera Lens Blur Effect 12:23. Troubleshooting a Custom Particle System 15:17:02. Second Idea for animating still images 22:38:09. Compositing Scene2 23:30. Pushing your scene for more complexity 24:22. Troubleshooting Masking an animated photo 25:10. Troubleshooting Puppet pinning a masked precomp 27:11. Pushing your scene even further Shading 30:35. Using an Expression to give life to your shading 35:02. Adding animated light to the scene 35:26. Parenting the Light to the animated Shadows 36:15. Scene creation recap 37:09. Adding motion with turbulent displace 37:49. DIscussion about importance of compositing your scene properly 41:04. Spliting Dimensions in Position and using expressions 41:39. Fixing your scene layers in the layer stack 42:39. Recap 43:11. How to turn text into a shape layer and animate its shape path 43:47. Adjusting velocity and motion blur 46:27. Advanced motion ideas long format pushing an idea VERY far 47:47.

Exploring the Add button and breathing life into shape layers.

Intro 00:29:21 Parallax 00:29:21 - 00:04:11:05 Compositing Your Scene- Levels Effect 00:04:11:05 - 00:11:06:01 Compositing Your Scene- Hue Saturation Effect 00:11:06:01 - 00:11:50:04 Compositing Your Scene- Gaussian Blur Effect 00:11:50:04 - 00:12:23:07 Compositing Your Scene- Camera Lens Blur Effect 00:12:23:07 - 00:15:17:02 Troubleshooting a Custom Particle System 00:15:17:02 - 00:22:38:09 Second Idea for animating still images 00:22:38:09 - 00:23:30:02 Compositing Scene 2 00:23:30:02 - 00:24:22:06 Pushing your scene for more compexity 00:24:22:06 - 00:25:10:12 Troubleshooting Masking an animated photo 00:25:10:12 - 00:27:11:09 Troubleshooting Puppet pinning a masked precomp 00:27:11:09 - 00:30:35:13 Pushing your scene even further Shading 00:30:35:13 - 00:35:02:08 Using an Expression to give life to your shading 00:35:02:08 - 00:35:26:14 Adding animated light to the scene 00:35:26:14 - 00:36:15:27 Parenting the Light to the animated Shadows 00:36:15:27 - 00:37:09:02 Scene creation recap 00:37:09:02 - 00:37:49:14 Adding motion with turbulent displace 00:37:49:14 - 00:41:04:11 DIscussion about importance of compositing your scene properly 00:41:04:11 - 00:41:39:18 Spliting Dimensions in Position and using expressions 00:41:39:18 - 00:42:39:12 Fixing your scene layers in the layer stack 00:42:39:12 - 00:43:11:17 Recap 00:43:11:17 - 00:43:47:17 How to turn text into a shape layer and animate its shape path 00:43:47:17 - 00:46:27:20 Adjusting velocity and motion blur 00:46:27:20 - 00:47:47:24 Advanced motion ideas long format pushing an idea VERY far 00:47:47:24

How to shave off unwanted space from a full screen video or motion graphic to optimize it for a web site, using After Effects.

Trouble shooting animations pushing ideas further relinking files how to render

we covered: 1. how to replace artwork in your timeline while keeping all of your keyframes and effects, so they stay with the new art that replaced the old art 2. fixing rigging issues- parenting textures to moving layers so that the texture moves along with the shapes 3. trouble fixing future art link issues with google drive 4. precomp multiple layers together if you want them to all fade off together, otherwise you will see through each layer as it fades off. 5. how to turn text into a shape layer 6. using shape layers as Alpha mattes to reveal what is inside them and Alpha Invert Matte to reveal what is outside them 7. Getting double exposure effect placing videos inside of layers using Alpha mattes 8. animating a cord or rope snapping

1. fine tuning animations 2. keeping motion ideas consistent 3. adding extra touches- light leaks and lens flares 4. adding in music- viewing audio waves in After Effects 5. how to render and compress when After Effects is buggy - After Effects 2022 render issues 6. fixing hard edges of textures using masks and feathering to create seamless textures over your art work 7. using alpha mattes to mask textures to fit inside your artwork 8. using blending modes to add interest to your artwork 9. putting the image, jpeg texture inside the precomp that has puppet pinning applied to it, so the image distorts along with the puppet pins 10. trouble shooting your ideas 11. using math functions in After Effects to quickly make wide comps to place inside to fake camera motion, making the background of your scene scroll by horizontally 12. creating precomps from multiple layers to simplify your animation workflow 13. how to separate dimensions on Position stop watch to add an expression to only one axis - in this example Y axis to randomly make layer bob up and down as it moves sideways across the screen 14. relinking missing art in After Effects- how to chose a layer from an Illustrator file that has a missing link to the art 15. Adding an adjustment layer and adding an effect to it, the effect will apply to every layer below the adjustment layer 16. Using Camera lens blur, and creating a gradient ramp layer to use as a Blur Map for that effect 17. adjusting where layers start and end to get your best animation possible as quickly as possible 18. adjusting gradient ramps 19. click on Repeat Edge pixels when using blur effects so they go all the way to the edge of the screen for best possible result 20. How to Purge Memory and disc cache to free us space on your computer 21. using reference art and images to get the best possible look for yoru motion design 22. Set your layer anchor points where you want the motion to originate from for best results 23. parenting texture to shape layers (Alpha Mattes) so that the texture moves and rotates along with the shape mattes 24. using more layers gives you more flexibility as an animator, breaking things down into multiple shapes to give life to each piece 25. color correcting and color grading images in After Effects, using Curves effect 26. using video ink reveals as Luma invert mattes

In lab we covered: 1. Using ink videos as Luma Invert mattes 2. using effect Extract to create alpha, to use for double exposure look 3. rotating 3D shape layers 4. parenting layers 5. adding Jaws transition for open door animation 6. how to make a composition longer in duration 7. creating a shape path layer, Window - Create Nulls From Paths - Points follow nulls. Using this to parent path points to layers moving in your scene 8. adding wiggle paths and turbulent displace 9. keeping your artwork consistent in your animation 10. how to Show mesh when puppet pinning, expanding the mesh 11. trouble shooting parenting with a character rig 12. how to push your animation using effect CC Bender to add some follow through and overlapping motion to wing flaps 13. pushing text for titles. Adding ink video for a luma invert matte, How to speed up or slow down a video layer in After Effects, adding texture, precomposing, blending modes, layer styles.

We covered: 1. Turning shape layer into a liquid/fire by adding trim paths, animate them off and on, adding effect: Turbulent Displace to the shape layer 2. creating a displacement map using effect Turbulent Noise 3. fixing issues with 3D layers- z space 4. parallax 5. adding "Cast Shadows" to lights and layers in a 3D scene 6. using a null and parenting to easily change and animate camera focus in 3D 7. adding puppet pinning to a 3D scene set up with parallax 8. Breaking down a professional title sequence a. how to add film noise using turbulent noise and some expressions b. blending modes c. toggle hold frames- to have changes happen instantly d. layer management for fast effects and quick cuts in your animations e. gradient ramps f. animation breakdown of scenes just by looking at them 9. texturing text in After Effects, and using Alpha Mattes 10. adding bevel and emboss for more interest to text

3d Adding Lights and casting shadows How to puppet pin Precomposing Adding texture and blending modes Separating layers in Illustrator Character Rigging Parenting