After Effects Workshop

For our new project called 'Time Art' we need to create a twin screen video loop piece based on the connection between the human body and the digital world. One of the ways we can do this is through the use of Adobe After Effects to edit video in more depth and also to create original animated pieces. To begin this project I completed a series of challenges and tutorials to allow me to start to experiment and gain knowledge on After Effects editing tools. Here is what I created and learnt:

Beside the basic I also learnt how to add effects to images and in this particular example I did following a tutorial I changed the colour setting so that it faded to a purple/blue colour in the background as the logo appeared:



Then I began to look into how to start animating objects and graphics using features such a keying when adding effects. In this particular example I animated the logo to rotate and move into the frame:


I then took all the skills I had learnt through this initial tutorial and applied it to my own shapes. I began with a very basic star shape and I had a go at animating in a very similar style to how I animated the graphics in the tutorial above. However I wanted to see how the adobe programmes work together so I made the star shape in Adobe Illustrator and then inserted it in to After Effects to animate it:


Finally we had to try and recreate one of the pieces which was show to us at the beginning of the day. The piece I chose to do was a logo animation for a Jewish museum. Here is the original that we were shown:
 
Jewish Museum Logo Animation from Sagmeister & Walsh on Vimeo.

Then here is my attempt to recreate it. I only got as far as recreating the very beginning of it as it took me a very long time to work out how to do a lot of the animations however I am very happy with what I have achieved:

I am overall very happy with what I have managed to do with After Effects because I have never used it in this way before. I feel a bit more confident now when it comes to creating my own original piece.