Author: mbransons

So for next week I’d like you to write a post about how you’d like to spend the remaining six weeks in this class. You’ve knowledge of some very concrete motion graphics skills at this point, but your level of ability to use them probably varies quite a bit. There are new skills we can … Continue reading “What do you want to make now?”

To date Below is a list of the work that could have been completed by today’s class. Quizes PS – Pen Tool PS – Hit the Target AE – Bounce the ball AE – Sneagator AE – Motion Tracking AE – Masking Homework/Project Work Posts Movie Poster Asset Creation Movie Poster GIF Draft 1 with … Continue reading “Knock, knock your grades are coming…”

Use this moment from The Secret Life of Pets and place something between the turkey and the milk in the fridge. Consider using one of an array of emojis as they’re high quality transparent PNG files. Bonus points if you can have the item darken to black with the opening and closing of the refrigerator … Continue reading “Masking Quiz – Something else in the fridge”

Here’s today’s simple tutorial for how to use masking of video in After Effects. Also consider learning to use the Rotobrush. Have a look at Maria Sanchez’s final post about her project which combines the pen tool image masks and the rotobrush. Also look at the post from last semester in which we covered masking … Continue reading “Masking the Emoji”

This week’s quiz asks you to motion track the head of this karate kid on a boat. Then add an emoji that follows the motion track. Create a GIF and upload.  

This week we look at the motion tracking tool so that you can create null objects which follow a set of contrasting pixels frame-by-frame in a video. Then text can be created and parented to the null object which allows you to have text follow a character like this. Or mask the head like this: For … Continue reading “GET OFF OF ME!!!!”