Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 10

 NIE WEIQIU (0360239) 

Digital Photography and Imaging
Week 10 (Lectures, Tutorial, Practical)

WEEK 10 (8.6.2023) 

Lecture 

Adobe After Effects

In week 10, Mr Fauzi introduced us about Adobe After Effect (Ae). Adobe After Effects is a 2.5D animation software used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture compositing. 

Compositing Layers in Photoshop

All the layers need to be arrange and rename accordingly so that it will be organize and easy to be animated in After Effects. 

Compositing Layers in After Effects

Basically we can import elements such as images, video, vector and more into After Effects. All the layer elements need to be organized and synchronized to the external software platforms such as Photoshop & Illustrator. After Effects files does not embed its media, it links to it.

Tutorial + Practical

We first watched a demo video of After Effect by Mr Fauzi during Tutorial class. In the video, we are shown how we can animate the images/objects that are imported from Adobe Photoshop. After that, the teacher gave us a step-by-step demonstration and recorded a video and posted it on YouTube, which you can refer to when doing exercises in the practical class.


                                   
                                                    Kinetic Typography

After Effects Exercise

We need to download the .psd file from Google Drive provided and animate it with the tools that are shown during tutorial class such as position, masking and scale. 

Original Image from Photoshop


Final Outcome

We started practicing to make ourselves more familiar with the application, and

The final outcome of this exercise should be a composition setting with 1080 px (Width) x 1920 px (Height), duration 15 seconds.












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