Below are a few stills from my After Effects prototype. After effects has been really challenging me as it is a very different beast than either illustrator or photoshop with which I’ve had experience before. While some basics do cross over the whole layout is different and of course their’s, well, motion to the graphics. I have been knee deep in tutorials to really figure out what I’m doing. The beautiful thing about After Effects is that if you can dream it up, theres a near guarantee it can be done, and thusly their is a relevant tutorial about it. I’ve already watched ones on techniques as specific as creating a nebula galaxy with light effects, making a 2D image 3D, creating a wind animation, and creating a neon sign from near scratch as well as navigating the z-space as it’s called. There is quite a satisfaction to rendering a piece after working on it for hours… At any rate I’m doing the movie “Drive” and my graphic is composed of three micro scenes. The protagonist walking towards his car (frame by frame animated), him driving down the night street (z-space and wind effects + shake effect) and finally the camera coming upon a billboard that reads “DRIVE,” which has light effects, transformation effects and navigates and utilizes the functionality of the virtual camera.
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