In the first week of this module we had a quick “crash course” with after effects to refresh our skills as a class. We went over the basic transform tools first. Once the tools had been explained and refreshed we then moved on to applying what we (re)learnt. This exercise took the form of finding a number of resources online and importing them into photoshop, from this we then had a breif refresher in how photoshop works and some of the updates that have happened in the latest version of Adobe CC. The task was to make one resource ready for animating, by cutting parts of the image and using seperate layers ready to import into After Effects.
AAA (Screenshots)
This is what I did, first of all I cut this image of a cat so that the head and paw were made into two seperate layers, leaving the third layer as the body. Then I imported an image of New York, seperated the sky from the city and finally imported the assets into After Effects.
Once in after effects I parented the cat’s limbs back to the body and positioned the cat between the city and sky layers of the new york image. I then used the move and rotate tools to animate the now giant cat moving along the city.
AAA (Animation)