After Effects Tutorial Lecture

I really enjoyed this lecture. We learnt the basic elements of After Effects with Mikki.

We learnt how to use the timeline to make keyframes and change the settings such as position, scale and opacity. We played around with effects where I used the alphabet soup effect on the text.

To export this animation we needed to use the Adobe Media Encoder. 

Hannah (a third year animation student) spoke to us about keyframes.

• Key Frames - Marker point for the timeline. 
• Key frame animation is the most popular type of animation compared to stock animation.
• 24 frames per second is the usual amount of time that animators use.
• You can either draw out the animation frame by frame or you can smear some of the frames.

I created a Pokemon based animation during this lecture which was really fun to create.