Animation

Animation On Adobe After Effects

It is fair to say after an a horrible experience in the past two years of doing Media Studies, year 11 and year 12 proved to me that After Effects was an extremely confusing programme to use. Initially whilst planning my music video I did not intend to use this programme, however, when I saw an easy step-by-step animation tutorial on YouTube I wanted to include it in my own work. This was the tutorial I followed-

I found that this video was extremely helpful. I was able to edit clips that I had already put into my music video without problems. All I had to do after editing these animation clips was add the fast colour corrector wheel in order to finish completely editing that certain clip.

Here are some screen shots of myself and my partner animating some clips of the music video-

So following the tutorial all we did was :

1. Select the clip we wanted to animate in our work area on Premiere Pro.
2. Open the clip up in After Affects.
3. Select the paint tool and brush tool.
4. Start drawing on our video frame-by-frame.

We decided that we wanted animation that wasn't too overwhelming or intense and have something straightforward yet artistic. We decided to animate the people and the musical instruments in order to make them stand out. As we had planned to use a colour affect on some of these clips we decided the colour white would pop the most and suit the clips that will be animated without the colour affect on the image. We decided also not to be too neat with the animation as we thought it would make it look more fun and would suit the bands edgy style. We have seen this messy look upon young indie bands many times such as the band - Rat Boy. 

Despite how easy it was to animate the clips it was an extremely long process and I would often find myself and my partner staying after school to finish animating these clips frame by frame. We also didn't like how some of the were fully animate as we thought this made it look a little bit harsh. Therefore me and my partner - Cole decided to break the animation up a little bit by not editing all the frames in the clip. This in turn saved us time and gave the required look we were going for.