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Postcard Gif using After Effects

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we'll talk about this postcard project essentially we're going to make a gif and the GIF needs to have a couple of different things going on you need to make something in Photoshop a picture you've taken and I want you to actually take the picture just one you could add some other elements things you cut out found all of that as well but you need to take a picture edit in Photoshop and bring it into this project you need some shape layers and you need text layer or two so let's take a look at the one I built you see here that I have a couple of different things going on here what I should actually have done here and Truth is that I should have colored all of these a little bit different as well so we can see them all right so what we have here is on the top some lasers that I have some texts the lasers of course are elements have built out of shape layers all detail those in a second video I have text layers I have some photoshop stuff in this timeline and the bottom of some background bars does raw shea players and then remember if we work all the way out of After Effects here we have in this window is our project window it allows us to to manage file manager and asset manager for a project to have a comp window right here in the middle down below we have timeline of the spacebar to play this to remember again if you have your info panel in the upper right-hand corner selected it will tell you whether or not you are playing back in real time zone hit the spacebar here going to play through its playing in real time this was the demo I did for. 6 and it Cycles back I've designed this one to Loop you don't necessarily need to do that but it is nice if it starts and ends the same way that way we get a nice looping in can we make the dress itself so we're looking at the Timeline you can see things exist and start and stop at different times and that's an important aspect of this right so let's go ahead and go through and badass build one of these from scratch starting over in Photoshop so I'm going to tab over I'm looking at Photoshop here you can see that I have and I'm not going to go over this selected out some elements in Photoshop and prepared those note that I have named them specifically as cutouts and note also that I have two extra layers in this Photoshop file that's really important when you put something in the after effects 1 the things that it does not do well is update new layers in fact it doesn't do it and so we've done two extra layers that would allow us to make some changes so let's say it later on that I decide that I need a going to be able to Blink his eyes or that I would like to replace the eyes of the cat jar with his eyes in some sort of think I would need use those extra layers also note that I have properties in a very low res file so it's theoretically I should have probably gone bigger than this which would allow me to scale things a little bit easier in After Effects but my image size here is 400 pixels by 600 pixels you can see that here 600w 400 tall and 72 pixels per inch this is the size of the composition we're going to have in After Effects okay so that's all good let's go back over to After Effects and let's start to build this out I'll go ahead and I'll call was this project and I will I'm not going to save it because this is a converted project I'm going to go ahead and open talk to use me have it already defaults to a new project so let's right click in the project window let's go ahead and open and navigate to this file it's going to be in my remote drive here so I'll go ahead and zoom through and let's go ahead and open up or import this a Photoshop PSD file I would like to import this as a composition that's an important thing that we want to do here because we want to give ourselves some flexibility it will make sense necessarily for this project but we will understand that in our next project that we do all right let's open it up and going to keep on their styles editable okay what we have now in the project window is a composition right and remember you can hover over any of the panels and press Tilda and that's going to full-screen it and my lost it it saves the composition settings of my last made composition so I had a 5-second 2997 frame rate project that I done before and so that's why it looks as it looks so that's a composition and here's all my layers Photoshop project so I'll tell to back out of this and I'm going to make a new cam for this project also no right here I have this set to 32 bits we don't need that all go ahead and take this and put it back to 16 bits I'm or eat this I have done that because glows and other effects illumitex like that look better at 32 bits but that will crush most of the school computers okay next let's go ahead and start this new composition here when Press On. going to make a new, I'll call this postcard demo and let's go and change the width and height I'll change it to 600 in with and I'm going to make it four hundred height I needed to decouple my aspect ratio I'd like to make this 25 frames a second and I need 10 seconds here for the comp what's good and take our background color and make it something neutral props I'll make this amid gray or light gray that works okay alright so now it's time to go ahead and to work this out I need you access my layers here so I know that I would like to start with one of these two instances so I will grab our phone cut out I'll bring it down into my comp here all right we're good to go. I have a couple things selected number one here underneath the composition window I have this paves masks thing selected that's not going to come up here in this project I might talk about it separately cuz it is kind of fun I do have this turned on the fast raft I don't actually need it I can probably this whole thing at final resolution but for the sake of what we're doing I'll just tell you that it's probably good idea to use adaptive or fast raft when you're doing this all so we can do this at RR resolution right here can also be on auto or full can get away with that if you leave it on auto and you leave this on adaptive you're going to get your best possibility so that it doesn't crush your computer all right so now we're ready to keep playing then we can open up the tour of the area and the transform here and let's go ahead and let's animate so in this case I want to start coming here off stage so I'm going to Simply move him off of stage and go ahead and keyframe the position remember I turn the stopwatch on here to keep RAM and it's blue now I simply need to make a change over time so if we come over to let's say let's have him in about a second 1/2 ballpark come in and we want him to move up the side like this know the problem here is I work through the small image I don't want that this hard at the bottom to stick out and so we'll just go ahead and bring get up to about here and then maybe what we'll do in this case is so we'll see if that's play that through good. Looks good and then we'll have him do maybe in another about second second in a my fear is will have him move off frame again and then let's go ahead and see how that looks I'll hit the spacebar to play it through it will lot when I'm pressing the spacebar and it's previewing it will tell me whether or not it's real time if it's in red means it's having problems processing right so that looks okay although I don't necessarily know that I want that to be white. Round so remember that your motion path here is actually simply just a path and has bezier handles just like anything in illustrator does so comes up and goes down all right what I want to do here is add a keyframe because he moves up too fast so Command right arrow that moves me one friend left to right, left, right I can also use shuttle keys but let's not talk about those right now because I think that's too much all right so let's come back in here and work this out okay so I need to add a new people over here to the left when I have keyframing turned on I have this dialog that allows me to add a remove keyframe to the current time I'd like to add one and I would like to spread them apart a little bit that's going to create a scenario where he stays up there a little bit so do the way I could have done that is I could just simply take this key frame here copy it paste it move it over a little bit now he won't move and let's you look so we bring them up oh that's that didn't work right what happened there that's no good we need to sometimes you just end up a little quirky problems in After Effects of will go to copy will go one from over with paste now I moved out a part he said he should not be moving in here and that's there is no reason. Should be happening so sometimes we end up with little problems let me rekey frame this here and that just is the nature of the game going to go ahead and take the position again at time 0 will will start him here will come do a second-half move him up and in slightly there I'm then going to go ahead and move one keyframe to the right here at another and let's slide that over that day so now he's not moving now I know that about 3 seconds I would like him to return back down hear okay that's going to work I will select all of these right now I'm going to right click on them I'm going to go to the keyframe assistant down here and I'm going to go ahead and easy easiest frames that's going to give me a more naturalistic feel providing some easing that's great clips so now what I'm going to do go ahead and I'm going to turn this layer off shortening this layer in essence right so and let's go and change this layers color let's change this to a yellow or something like that because he's mostly he's got this yellow element that looks good all right so he appears hangs out and disappears no remember all the key frame is is a little bit of information telling me that at it at a certain time so in this case at one second 13 frames the location of this object is simply at the points provided okay so what I want to do now is do the same thing but I'm going to do it on the other side somebody to duplicate this layer command-d to duplicate the layer it should be under edit duplicate that what I'm going to do is go in and I am going to take this layer all right click on it I'll Transform it all flip the lair modeling and what we're going to do is move the whole thing over but what were we need to do is move it over in its entirety I got so this is a little funky here so I maybe didn't need to duplicated that may have been a waste of my time because yeah in fact because yeah that's that was a little bit of a waste of my time so instead of duplicating it because I need to move them Anchor Point sat there I'm all simply go ahead and duplicate the layer but I'll probably just take these and delete them out and maybe we do it on the it would have been convenient to use the animation but I'll right click transform flip horizontal I'm and I will move it over to the other side and looks like it's over move our play head over our current time indicator and we'll do the same thing we will take this and we will keep praying position turn it on so we'll have hit move up and in just like that and then we'll go ahead and move over a frame or two maybe four frames maybe six frames something like that I'll add a keyframe to it and then we'll go ahead and moving out Prince know you want to be experimental here we could have on this work a number of different ways so let's let's play around with a different way of doing it so again select right-click keyframe assistant Eazy-E's all right so now what we've got going here is a Zircon comes and takes a look at us dips out comes in on the other side takes a look at it dips out I will do as as he dips out there will shorten the Slayer it helps me see what's going on right in my car right and let's go ahead and collapse these two layers know I can grab the wolf so that should be cut out I'll bring that in here and what we will do with the wolf as we will paucity in the wolf maybe somewhere about here so I'll bring this layer over I can like extend these layers are static they're not video so that I have a lot of flexibility with them let's take this let's go ahead and scale it up I'll grab this corner I could also use the scale transform and it's a little bit too big it feels up to frame of selected their start to scale it bring it back all right. Looks good there and what we'll do with this one is will go ahead and T4 transparency you want to know the shortcuts pass Warren Beatty for a paucity transparency PS r&t so let's take this and let's bring the sin at 0% opacity so we'll just scrub down to zero then let's come in here and in just about a second we'll opacity to in that's rotation to do that I'll let's go to bring that into 100% all right let's take a look and see how this goes so we start they're the wolf of capacities in we can have things scale and I'll show you that shortly man so what will maybe do now on is that we will start with some shapes layers I'll go up and go lay their new shape layer remember shape layers remind you with the star shape that you can only have a vector on them and so let's also change this to something more visible will change it maybe to green and the shape layer is by default blue. Let's go ahead and build something in the shape layer and I'll do that by changing my fill to a solid color perhaps a green that let's go ahead and turn stroke to none remember words are clickable if they're in blue value silver and blue are scrubble going to do the same bars sort of setup I did in class so create this rectangular shape here are you could do this lots of different ways and in lots of different purposes but we do want to go ahead and Neymar layers appropriately so I'll go ahead don't delete enter go ahead and name is green AR bar shape we've got these bars here now that I just renamed and I've noticed that there's some something a little confusing I have a green bar and a green layer in my timeline just change this to Orange and maybe what I'll do is I'll take my green bar shape layer are the shapes they're here the bar that I just made I'll make that green the way of just to noting it not a big deal but we want to be organized okay you can see that the lair Anchor Point right here that's really important remember that all the different transforms things like if I scale this thing if I rotate it all of the transforms happen from the origin of the Anchor Point So This Kiss what I'm going to do is I'd like to scale this but I want to make it look like it's sort of Pop out from one side or the other and so one of the ways I can do that is by decoupling the scale the height and the width that you can see the right now they're linked that's this little icon right here the chain icon so I need to take this Anchor Point and move it to one side the other up for this effect to work out so because it's the origin right of my animation so I'm going to take the van behind tool why for why can't I animate correct we haven't had to deal with it yet in this animation and so it's up here it's got the little arrow behind it so why for why can't I animate correctly and I'm going to move that Anchor Point to this side now if I decouple the scale and play with just the horizontal scale anime about this kind of neat effect here so let's go ahead and let's start this at zero and I haven't started yet cuz I need to determine exactly where I want this effect to happen so Maybe maybe we'll have this effect happen right will have it happen right about skier don't bring the Slayer in and then we want that to pop out here so I'll have it start here and and pop out about here so just under a second to occur so I need to go to the beginning of my layer I need to turn on my keep this is this is the part that you guys will have to wrap your head around and so yeah just play around with things you can move keyframes around just by dragging them so let's come in maybe let's come in 15 frames command and right arrow or left Arrow 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 there's 15 frames and I'll make this 100% okay so I'm not obviously don't want this in the front because that would kind of block what I'm doing all that I can be kind of neat so I'm going to have the same thing so now that I've made it happen right I've already animated that I can duplicate it so we'll go will simply duplicate this layer and kamandi to duplicate and but we will take this one in and determine where we wanted to go so I would like it to happen right about here so I'll slide it over so and now I also need to take move it up to about there writes out what I've got so far is one bar two bars and now I'm going to have to have a third bar so we'll have that command need to duplicate one more time right when the wolf of paucity is in all the way maybe I'll have it start there for lack of any better way to plan and I'll move it up okay so there we go. We have our little animation but let's take those three green bars move them to the there we go I can close up the scale and now it's space bar and watch this John Hopkins too fast I don't like that Rhythm and so what I need do is make a determination about when that happens and maybe what I need to do because there is there needs to be some sort of Rhythm to my animation so one bar time it out to bars three bars and we have wolf in the Greenfield so that seems fine to me all right so with that being said let's go ahead and yeah that's nice remember that I do want ever sing to disappear at the end of nation so I'm going to have to do a little bit of work to get that to happen I'm not worried about whether or not you guys create a peer Loop gifs look great when they loop around so that there's a starting point and endpoint that are the same not the in the world that doesn't happen text so we have shape layers we have images from Photoshop I'd like you to take a photo for this so I'd like it I'm going to have this Loop out I don't know that you guys need to do a loop requirements to a player's a picture you've taken we have both pictures from Photoshop and we have our shapes layers animation let's go ahead and now add some text jokes and so I'm going to show you a couple of hand animated text tools up here when you open it up you get your character panel make sure that you're thinking about typeface is it all. This handles exactly the same way as something else might handle and so maybe I'll do this yellow I will see how this works so I'll come in here and let's make the with a click on the set the text layers above him wolf you could do this all is one text blocked but I'm going to do some multiple text block some clicking down back likes wolf likes okay so I've got three bits of text their read by default they tell you to text layer like this shape layers indicate here with Our Stars vector layer in our Photoshop layers have a little Photoshop icon we have a t a text icon in front of our text Claire and it should tell you what it contains okay so let's go ahead and start to play with this I'm going to go ahead and remember this . here meme solo that hides all the other layers so I'm solo wolf and all grab my regular selection tool drag it down. You can see that depending on the fault for your After Effects you could have the Anchor Point set it up in here or at the bottom left corner maybe doesn't matter for you it does for me here so why for why can't I animate for this write-up in the middle here you can also just for reference I can right click on it I get this menu with a lot of contacts stuff if I go to my transform submenu here and I go down to Center Anchor Point in their content it's going to get right in the middle of whatever content is in this layer right so that in this case it's this work I've been doing this is the beginning of a layer that I can move or adjust that around right okay so I would like this to say wolf I'd like it to pulse out so let's go ahead and animate scale first so we'll go ask for scale turn the song will start this at zero their length which is what I want guys are going to come in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 if I zoom in at the bottom here of my timeline I can see I'll be able to see with more Fidelity where my frames are and then of course over here till left it'll tell me what fram I'm on or whatever position I am in on my time-life also note right above your timeline is a workspace right so below the time ruler here is this workspace and it's not saying that at same time ruler but I can grab my work area and bring it in or bring the other end in I would need to zoom out or I can use B for beginning that's going to bring it right up to the play head 10-4 nethersphere I don't know I'm not the end something like that that brings in your area when you hit your spacebar causes the ram preview to work just within it it's like putting little brackets on it's kind of a name something to do because it allows you to preview specific areas okay above that is a is a zoom shuttle thing that you can use to see different parts of your timeline for navigating through okay so go ahead and I want 12 frames here I don't need my work area quite this tight all zoom out just a little bit here 11 frames I'll come over one more let's make the scale now hundred smartlease this apple mice are really annoying okay so we've got this nice for the okay I want to go bigger than that let's change that keyframe to 200% start and so now I'm going to use that low porosity pulse thing so we're going to keyframe capacity for transparency and now I'm going to keyframe it at 100% And I'd like to see my other keyframes are you I press you to understand what's going on and let's go ahead and he's this right click keyframe assistant Eazy-E's remember he's eating just causes things to move a little more naturally than they otherwise would so and now okay so here's the thing I don't want if I put a 0% keyframe here what's going to happen is that immediately at the beginning of my anime it's going to start fading out and I don't want that I need to I need to put a keyframe about here in my transparency that tells at 100% so remember you can add keyframes at any point once you're actively keyframing once you have a stopwatch and again I know keyframe sounds really confusing all the key frame is it's a little marker in your time line that contains information a bit of information at this time at 8 frames if I click this make sure that the opacity is 100% so now I'll come into maybe one second maybe one and a half seconds because this is going to take to to go to quickly otherwise and then I'll bring this down to 0% opacity all right let's take a look at that now so it pulses in and Fades out pulses in and Fades out I think it even is scaling too fast so I'll just move that keyframe over right so let's take a look now that's coming nice Pace maybe even just a second to grow there we go let's try that okay like that that's cool alright so now I can uninstall and what I can do now is in this is play cool right so maybe what I'll do is I'll just solo my three text layers okay I can come in here and I'm going to copy my keyframes here no I can't remember if you guys can do this because we're CC 2018 school and I'm in cc2020 here and home we use a panel at school called do it which allows you to copy multiple attributes I think because we're going text layer to text there it'll be possible but they actually just updated this because you used to not be able to do this is a newer feature used to have to copy for your scale and then your opacity or whatever so come and see the copy or edit copy how do I click on each one of these and it should now they should all anime the same okay perfect that's what I want okay now the only issue though is you'll notice that that the layer anchor points is likes and drama are in the bottom left-hand corner and so they're growing in differently for variety's sake, here I might move Larry Kerr point to the other side I must take a look just for variety so now all three are animating in a little bit differently okay so let's go ahead now and take those layers and I can zoom out in my car. It looks good and put those were want them in our cop so I need to run solo right because I need to see everything now so I'm just going to scrub the playhead through so we have co-ed the wolf last bar cutter comes in right when the last bar comes in will do a regular selection tool to do this I'm going to slide the lair over so we'll go wolf Ben likes drama we're at the movies because I'm not seeing enough of drama right so I'm going to start her that let's find wolf for his wolf wolves right here likes is here let's move like soup still do that let's go ahead and move like down to the bottom or the middle and then I need to move the drama to the very bottom here let's try that alright let's see how this looks and we send wolf likes drama and we're done okay so now that we're happy with the way everything is laid out here and I think I am and it's organized and all that yep that was great I now need to opacity out the wolf and the green bars and perhaps we'll just do that for the sake of the demo I can I can flip the key frames of These Bars and have them shrink maybe I'll show you that real quickly here so I'll just take these to keep them so remember this is our hazard scale for the green bar something to copy them and I'm going to Pace them over here actually I'm a little bit too far over call Pace them over here at the end and then I'll simply do is actually just dragged one of them toss the other one so that in essence reverses them so you can see it now this one's 100% this one's 0% here and so now what it should do is grow backwards right so once I've done that I can take that and I can go up to my other two bars and I can add those in pretty quickly so it really pays for the playhead is and so let's go ahead and they start their this one I had the wrong layer selected set right there pissed I didn't best work and then I'm going to have to pace this last one right here at the end as well it's going to have to happen in a way that's not totally exactly the way I'd like look see yeah it's going to it's not great but what all do here is I will open up all three of these and press you now I can go ahead and just maybe I'll slide that back and then I'll take these to and slide them back so there's some staggering that occurs okay that. Looks like it might be okay for me so all I did was copy the first 2K frames from 0% horizontal to 100% horizontal I copied and pasted them over here pass the other one to invert the two keyframes right so and now it grows back I now need to deal with the Wolfies in Orange right here and so what I think I'll do with the wolf is all opacity him out because I buy a positive in soap to have 100% It's a drama grows pulses out right there and so we'll add a stopwatch that's a hundred percent then we'll come in I want to be shy if my 10-second Mark hear that's the end of my composition your composition should be 10 seconds really no longer let's let's make it officially a 10-second composition, and there we go now I should have apply easy so I'm going to grab all these keyframes here right click keyframe assistant Eazy-E's that's going to make it feel a lot more naturalistic I don't need to do that to the opacity there's some reasons for that but I'll all talk about it in class because I don't have time to make the video for that I want to be concise here so let's watch this through bars grow in Wolf shows up that's a little awkward but it's okay likes drama bars and wolf go away and it Cycles around okay one last little thing here and I didn't show this in class the if I look at this right now if I go up here and I change from RGB this is my my composite right and I go to Alpha you'll see that my background is black and if we remember our Alpha from Photoshop white reveals and black conceals this is unrein durable that is its transpose if I go ahead and run to this out as a MP4 or using media encoder it's not going to render if I do render it from the render engine inside after effects as an mov it will but as a what we like to do is we put a solid layer which is essentially a solid field of pixels into the background of our comp so let's go ahead and do that really quickly so we'll go layer new solid layer we can use solid for all kinds of stuff and I will tell you that after this is the deep end about the effect so if you drink VFX work for any film projects which there's a million tutorials on out there you will notice that they use saw there's a lot to do different things to pick up that gray cuz I kind of like it but you'll notice that it's not grey it's black okay so it should have picked it up I'm not sure why it's not taking it out but let me come in and just do a tunnel I might do kind of like a light minty green or something maybe they're all right that's total I like that and I'm going to stick that pale green solid on the very bottom now let's take that's officially ugly for my needs so there we go wolf likes drama all right we're done okay so now I'm sure of my background are there's no question about it there's no doubt do you know the text layer's solids and something called No Object I'll have read by default and you may wish to I'm change some of the stuff up just so you know what's going on I'm also note that I can change the names of lyrics like I can change this Photoshop load of wolf and I could change this to Cowan left goodbye guys and I'm going to change this to Cowan right and up that's not going to change anything up here nothing has changed in my comp window or excuse me my project window nothing will have changed on my hard drive you can delete things out of here you can delete things out of your project window it's c Lee is a file manager for inside After Effects it does not affect the original file on the computer there needs to be no concern about that okay the only thing I didn't show you here as parenting and what I'll do is I'm going I'm going to render this out converted to a gif and then I'll do one last video where I show parenting and I show the laser beam and maybe a couple of other quick things that may not be posted right away it'll be up there okay alright so what I need to do now is save this one last time I am comfortable with it so what I'm going to do is Click down here on my timeline I'm going to go up and go to composition and if you wanted an mp4 of this a something a video file that's a little bit shorter we have to send it to the media encoder queue in our case all we need to do is add this to the render queue the internal one because it's something small I need to tell it where to go and I need to I'm going to leave the default settings with your best settings and lossless right so that's going to be an mov for viola full quick tile time file I'm going to hit render and on the Let It Go and it's not going to happen that fast for you guys but that was pretty quick now what I can do is go over to photoshop let's go ahead and open file open. mov file here it is here yes the right there all open that up and we're going to it's going to process the video up now what I need to do nothing in Photoshop other than file export save for web Legacy and I want to save this as a gif through a presets let's go to chip 128 with dither let's see what that gives us we can preview it up and we can. This might pay lit up too much that this so I can hit preview it's going to open up my browser and it's going to show me what this looks like inside Safari yeah the colors are quite as bright but you know what that's fine but we do want to make sure that the looping right here is set to forever because it's that's the keys so let's go ahead and hit save alright I'm fairly happy with this I think that we're ready to go so that is the final turn in you're going to do a gif it's going to be it can be a postcard for an event or I didn't like that I think I like to just have fun with stuff like this do something sort of silly this is something that I might have to I'll give them a call when you can put up on the drama website have fun with this play around with that you need a text layer or a couple text layers you need to text object let's say you need a picture you've taken worked up in Photoshop you need to bring that into after effects and you need to go ahead and also have some shape players in there as well I'll follow this up with one of the video that covers how I do some other fun stuff and also talked about parenting and I'll talk about text effects using the effects in After Effects

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