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Animation and Motion Design

Lesson 1

Introduction to Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects interface: Project, Composition, Timeline, and Preview panels, accessing History. Importing video, frame sequences, raster and vector images. Layer properties, Transform and Opacity. Effects, Effect Controls panel, adjustment layers. Keyframe animation (Bézier splines), temporal interpolation, Graph Editor, animating with Pen tool.

Lesson 2

Expressions and Scripting

Expressions, pick whip, JavaScript basics, After Effects Object Model, Expression Controls. Reference frames and parenting, Null Objects. Wiggle method.
Scripts and Plugins. Importing animation keyframe tables from Wolfram Mathematica.

Lesson 3

3D Graphics and Render Settings

3D graphical elements, right- and left-handed coordinates, Space Transforms, 3D rotation properties, lookAt method. Text and vector layer extrusion, Camera and Light layers, material properties.
Composition settings, Motion blur, and Frame Blending. Video file formats, compression and codecs, Render Queue and settings.

Downloads Lesson 3.aep

Lesson 4

Soft-body animation

Puppet tool. Distort effect group, Liquify, Displacement Map. Time remapping. Shape layers, repeater. Text layers and animations.

Lesson *

Wolfram Mathematica

Smooth-step function and spline animation.

Downloads Keyframe functions.nb

Lesson **

Element 3D

Element 3D plugin for Adobe After Effects. Basic modelling with extrusion and bevel. Importing 3D objects from Wolfram Mathematica and other sources. Particle systems.

Examples


Downloads Lesson ++.aep Masks.ai



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