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Self Taught After Effects (Inspired by Workshop 2 & 3 with Sara)

After my few workshops in After Effects with Sara, I felt like I really wanted to try and understand the programme. We have been taught the basics so far and how to use the softwares however I know all the Adobe programmes compliment each other in order to get to a final piece.
I decided I wanted to work with Illustration and Animation which is two things I have NEVER done before. This was challenging and I was really nervous to begin with. After having a basic knowledge of the programme of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects, I set myself a brief.
BRIEF:

  • TO PRODUCE A PIECE OF ANIMATION WHERE IT HAS BEEN ILLUSTRATED IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR & EDITED AND PRODUCED IN ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS
I began by thinking of a topic. I had several ideas:
  • Light switch being flicked on and off
  • The sky changing colour
  • Drink going down in the cup
  • Rain falling
  • Snow falling, sun coming up and then snow disappearing
I decided to go with my final idea as I felt it had a bit more of a narrative and would be a bit more harder. I felt like throwing myself in the deep end would be better as I would have to continue to overcome challenges and It would require a lot of independent thinking.

ILLUSTRATIONS
I started off by illustrating the mountains and the scene in illustrator. I continued to save and edit the scenes slightly until it started to look like a mini movie. I found that I wanted the illustrations to be 3D yet still flat at the same time. I choose to use minimal colours that was very simple and not too bold or bright.

EDITTING
Once I had moved my designs into Adobe After Effects, I then begin to put them together using the same method I had learnt in Sara's workshop. I also worked with text and animations to make the text come into the scene rather than just appear straight away. I also added some music to set the tone. I used Christmas music as I thought due to the time and year and the idea of snow, it started to remind me of Christmas then leading into the New Year.

CONCLUSION
The piece was very time consuming and had to be very detailed in order to fit together and everything to work right at the same times. Their was a lot of components I had to keep an eye on to make sure nothing looked odd. I also found throughout making this their was some elements I would of changed for example the snow ball could of got bigger as it moved down the snow and also the sun would of looked better coming up from behind the mountains however this is a learning process as because I had so much to consider, I was proud to just learn and understand the process.
Below shows my final animation.
Christmas Illustration (ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR+ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS) from Amy Winson on Vimeo.


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