Animated Collage with Adobe After Effects

x Creating Affects After Effects 3D environments

“We reach the end, the lights of the disco are lit and, to your surprise, the boy you've been dancing with all night is not as much like Brad Pitt as you thought. In any case, before the float becomes a pumpkin and you get your project, let me review some points that we have been playing during the course: - If you have opened After Effects for the first time with this course, do not despair, it is not as difficult as it seems and be sure that in a short time you will master it perfectly. - Do not worry about not having a clear idea when you start your project. I myself have started many without having anything clear how to deal with them. Go to look for images, navigate between different categories and you will see that you find something that catches your attention and suddenly the bulb comes on. From there you just have to pull the thread. - Always keep an eye on the licenses or possible restrictions on the images or music that you are going to use in your project. And if one day the Civil Guard or the FBI goes to your house asking for the photo that you used in that video ... You do not know me. - If you already have the idea, putting together a storyboard will help you a lot. Not only because you will see at the moment if the thing is endured or not but because it will serve to structure the times and that will pave the way in the following steps. Use all the time you need reordering the cards (not adding details); the rest will be shot. - Already in the After, think first of what kind of video you want to do. Where will you publish it? Youtube? Go for the typical 1920x1080. Vimeo? The same but with more texture and more gloomy plot. Instagram? Here the loops are not even painted, but maybe a 1080x1080 would be ideal, although it supports the horizontal format equally. When in doubt, do as I do and put it in panoramic and move some pieces later if you want to change the format. - When animating, go from the most general to the most concrete. Do not do like me, I mess with absurd details. Start with a main composition where you can add different precompositions. When you have all that, you can go to the smallest details. - Leave the textures and color touches to the end, but do not neglect any of this. These layers of makeup can change all the style of your video. Be daring with these effects but at the same time moderate. Come on, what my mother used to tell me on the beach as a child, "Joseba, bathe but do not get wet". - When you have everything finalized, render a master to the highest quality, without any compression, and save that file as gold cloth. Remove all the versions you need from there; one for YouTube, another for Instagram, another for making a GIF ... This is much more effective and faster than exporting all those versions from the After directly. In my project I created this infinite traveling-loop through 4 different scenarios, but you can do what you want in your video. The idea is to play with 3D environments and create collages by which we can move the camera. You can take advantage of what you have learned to make a videoclip for your band. Or an alternative header of your favorite television show. Or you can recreate some of the great travellings of film history, positioning different photos of the film in a 3D environment. The possibilities are endless, and the complexity that you want to give to the project depends solely and exclusively on you. You can do a 10 minute short or a 2 second video with just one scenario; what best suits you and your circumstances. And here comes the course. I only have to thank you for your attention and ask everyone to participate in the course forum. You can leave any comments or questions that arise, as well as share both your progress and possible resources that you think may be useful for other colleagues. Between all of us we will be giving feedback and thus we will surely improve along the way. I am always attentive to the needs of all students and I try to help to the best of my ability. See you in the forum! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“FINAL PROJECT We reached the end of the course. We'll do a recap of everything we have seen in it. After introducing myself and talking about my influences, we started looking for images. I gave you websites to download free photos, both modern and old, that I usually use. As a bonus track, I gave you some websites to download music and sound effects. We went to Photoshop and did a storyboard of what our video will be like. Then we cropped the photos and we prepared them for After Effects. I showed you a couple of methods to import the material into AE, the good one and the one I use. Then ...”

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Course summary for: Animated Collage with Adobe After Effects

• Level: Beginner
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• 21009 students
• 5 units
• 23 lessons (4h 36m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animation, Collage, Video Editing