What you can do with AE in 4 hours!

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

Pure fun! :beer:

AE FLY (http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/1/AE_Visual_Effects_FINAL_web.mov)

[Kdawg]

you did... stickypod camera mounts with AE in 4 hours?

[Mark Harris]

um...I want to see that and it says page not found...

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

Link fixed.

[Mark Harris]

No andrew, that is what YOU can do in 4 hours. :)

This took me 4 hours tonight:

http://www.desperatecomfort.com/katrina/brandon_title_test.mov

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

:thumbup:

[Kdawg]

awesome guys! Y'all usin riot gear? I just recieved that package myself.

[AndrewKramer]

Fantastic! That is all I can say.

[Mark Harris]

yeah, I was using the riot gear ink and tutorials from AK to work out what I did.

[AndrewKramer]

Cool, I didn't even see that link. Nice work. Is the money prop money? I have about 2k of the coolect prop money. Only problem is that it cost more than the real thing. jk, Andrew

[Mark Harris]

It's actually prop money I had made for film called KATRINA. You can go to the thread through the image in my signature. The links to the film are dead as we had a re-edit, rescore, and re-sound mix, but you can see stills in that thread. That is a still from the film. I am using several to work out a title sequence.

[blckhawk542]

Hey Mark..cool stuff. What would really make it even cooler is if you made the text fade away like smoke or something. That would really sell the effect.

[Mark Harris]

yeah, I want to do more with that. that is not even the right font. I was just planning out how the text for each credit could come in. I would like to use a font called air conditioner and put like a chrome shine moving over it, and then have it fade out in some cool way like you're saying. Now that I have the basic technique for this worked out, I am going to play with it a lot and try to finish it this week.

[Mark Harris]

Pure fun! :beer:

AE FLY (http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/1/AE_Visual_Effects_FINAL_web.mov)


How did you do the spotlight part?

[triplej96]

Pure fun! :beer:

AE FLY (http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/1/AE_Visual_Effects_FINAL_web.mov)

Dude that is awesome! Could you do a tutorial on that lol or maybe a .aep?

Seriously in 4 hours damn!

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

Mark, the spotlight was a simple spot light set up in 3D space, keyframed at two different position time markers, with the keyframes set to Easy Ease to simulate the swinging motion.


Dude that is awesome! Could you do a tutorial on that lol or maybe a .aep?

Thanks man, unfortunately I was working on the project on a loaned comp, so I dont have the project file anymore, but I would be willing to do a short tutorial, on the basics of the setup.

[horseface]

http://homepage.mac.com/misterboo/.Pictures/hillgrab.jpg

Train on a Hill (http://homepage.mac.com/misterboo/.Movies/hill.mov)

http://homepage.mac.com/misterboo/.Pictures/hipposgrab.jpg

Hippos on a Train (www.homepage.mac.com/misterboo/.Movies/hippos.mov)

A couple of animation sequences for a music vid, 3 or 4 hours each. Painted and animated by hand, the olde fashioned way. Well, the old fashioned way with After Effects, Photoshop and some Pens and Paper. :D

I've only had AE for a couple of weeks, so I'm pretty new to this lark, but I'm enjoying it a little too much.

Now, with these done, I've only another 3 mins of animation to go. Sigh.

[saturnin]

yah man that be sweet, i can do a few things but the whole camera movemnt i sitll havnt figured out.... i'm sure if i can get a starting point i can work with it and figure out...

any good books out there also for AE that teach u these techniques?



Thanks man, unfortunately I was working on the project on a loaned comp, so I dont have the project file anymore, but I would be willing to do a short tutorial, on the basics of the setup.

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

Yeah, check out "Visual Quickpro Guide- After Effects 7" by Antony Bolante. That book has pretty much every nook and cranny of AE in it.

[drummerboy678]

horseface... those were great, i enjoyed 'em. its good to see old fashioned animation still out there.

[horseface]

Cheers, drummer boy. I guess it just looks olde fashioned - I like to make high tech look as low tech and subtle as possible. :)

I'll be comping in a lot of 3D elements from Maya into my next couple of scenes. That is, once I figure out a satisfactory way to make it not look so 3D and computery.

Will Mr. Kramer notice where I borrowed the film effect from, I wonder? :)

[triplej96]

Cheers, drummer boy. I guess it just looks olde fashioned - I like to make high tech look as low tech and subtle as possible. :)

I'll be comping in a lot of 3D elements from Maya into my next couple of scenes. That is, once I figure out a satisfactory way to make it not look so 3D and computery.

Will Mr. Kramer notice where I borrowed the film effect from, I wonder? :)

Yeah horse those animations were awesome! Took me back to my early years watching old cartoons!. Did you draw each of those frames??

[lder]

What I can do with AE in 3 hours :D :laugh: j for fun
thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, Andrew Kramer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM50qNQrvtQ

[mastertee31]

A parallax test i did, there are actually 3 planes with the background of each plane reconstructed in photoshop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSCfMJgsNkY

Sorry for the youtube but i have nobody to host.

[Kdawg]

I posted this in the dvx100 footage area....http://youtube.com/watch?v=WvHuxs5MXJc

[mastertee31]

This is another test i did with vector images, so I could scale as large as i wanted.

Once again, sorry for youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izFD5KWhhZk

[saturnin]

i guess what i dont understand or have a trouble with is the idea of the pans and having a segment that seamless and continues like the one above me with the beach.

the one with bam is pretty smiple, its just one photo thats been zoomed in on and panned and then zommed out, is that right?

[mastertee31]

the one with bam is pretty smiple, its just one photo thats been zoomed in on and panned and then zommed out, is that right?

The movement is simple, but the reconstruction took time. After I seperated bam and the rail I had to reconstruct what would have been behind that. Then after seperating the camera man I had to reconstruct what would have been behind him (parts of the rail, and the ground).

The beach was easier because the vector images were already existing, the one with bam was harder because it started as a single flat high resolution image.

The idea behind parallax is the same thing as if you were on the freeway looking off into the distance. From your perspective the horizon would be moving ever so slightly, but things that are closer to you would seem to whip by quicker (Signs, houses etc.)

[Roadkill475]

I'm enjoying what everyone is posting....I just want to mention, seeing as a lot of you are using andrew K's tutorials and Riot Gear material, that I'm super stoked for the Sound effects DVD to come out....I am working on a project right now that could use some.....I'll post it when it's done...ANyway, keep posting footage....

[saturnin]

was bam the same size in hte original phot as the one that u cut out, did you just cut him and the rail out in AE?


The movement is simple, but the reconstruction took time. After I seperated bam and the rail I had to reconstruct what would have been behind that. Then after seperating the camera man I had to reconstruct what would have been behind him (parts of the rail, and the ground).

The beach was easier because the vector images were already existing, the one with bam was harder because it started as a single flat high resolution image.

The idea behind parallax is the same thing as if you were on the freeway looking off into the distance. From your perspective the horizon would be moving ever so slightly, but things that are closer to you would seem to whip by quicker (Signs, houses etc.)

[mastertee31]

was bam the same size in hte original phot as the one that u cut out, did you just cut him and the rail out in AE?

I cut each layer out in photoshop and assembled the composition in ae, then made my movements.

[saturnin]

do u save your layers as .pngs or transparent .gifs

[mastertee31]

do u save your layers as .pngs or transparent .gifs

I don't remember exactly, since i did it a while back. I'm pretty sure i did .pngs since .gifs are compressed though.

[oneinfiniteloop]

You can import Photoshop's native format, psd, directly into after effects with all the layers in tact in a compostion...just in case you don't know.

[mastertee31]

You can import Photoshop's native format, psd, directly into after effects with all the layers in tact in a compostion...just in case you don't know.

Yeah, now that i come to think of it... i did do it that way. lol. (I did it more than 6 months ago)

[yia]

any body try the films magic pro filters........it is as good as magic bullet

[horseface]

Yeah horse those animations were awesome! Took me back to my early years watching old cartoons!. Did you draw each of those frames??

Nah, I'm just simulating having drawn each frame. ;) I'm using the puppet tools in the public beta of CS3. If each frame isn't a perfect, it takes on a more hand made feel - I let AE tween it, then tweak the frames and put them out of whack to make it a bit less computery. Another interesting thing I've found is that you can import animated footage and puppet pin that, too. This leads to some nice results.

[dougspice]

Isn't that puppet tool incredibly great?

[triplej96]

Nah, I'm just simulating having drawn each frame. ;) I'm using the puppet tools in the public beta of CS3. If each frame isn't a perfect, it takes on a more hand made feel - I let AE tween it, then tweak the frames and put them out of whack to make it a bit less computery. Another interesting thing I've found is that you can import animated footage and puppet pin that, too. This leads to some nice results.

Wow sweet so you just drew one frame and "puppeted" the rest huh.

[vicnewton]

AE rocks thats all I can tell ya... i used quite a bit of Andrew Kramers riot gear grunge effects in a recent video i shot and edited... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Ni_FGjbSY

[horseface]

Dougspice - Yeah, it's great! It's on the verge of revolutionary.

triplej96 - It's just animation with some bendy bits in it.

Here's my latest AE creation, because I don't know where else to put it.

http://homepage.mac.com/misterboo/.Movies/TrainScene1.mov

The train is 3D rendered, obviously, but I think that AE is where the juice happens.

:)

Man, I love this software.

[patssle]

I also enjoy after effects. I use it quite a bit on my productions. You can see a lot of it on my demo reel.

http://www.patssle.com/demo.mov