Advanced Motion Graphics and Visual FX
April 15, 2007
• 9:00AM - 6:15PM
9:00 - 10:15am
Advanced Title Design with Apple Motion
It’s well known among graphic designers and motion graphics artists that Type is one of the most critical and important components of a design. This session will focus on using Motion’s extensive Type capabilities (with both behaviors and keyframes), to create compelling titles for projects. It will also cover Motion’s type capabilities in the Text Inspector and creating text behaviors from scratch.
Audience: Intermediate to Advanced Editors and Motion Graphics Artists.
Instructor: Jim Kanter, Filmmaker, Training Director, Digital Film Institute
How to: Special FX for TV/Film
Whether you are using Motion, After Effects, or other apps, they all have their bag of tricks. However, what “special” techniques are you missing up your sleeves, especially for that upcoming TV or Film job? Come in, sit down, and watch carefully. You are about to have a proper introduction to a handful of FX that will help you achieve future success.
Audience: Beginner to intermediate NLEs and Motion Graphic Artists looking to learn new FX.
Instructor: Rod Harlan, Evangelist/Founder, Digital Video Professionals
11:45am - 1:00pm
Motion Control 3D - Creating Movement Within a Photo
You’ve seen this technique in popular films and TV commercials. Learn how to create movement within a photo. By harnessing the power of layers, masks, and cloning we can create a layered image that’s ready for After Effects. Add a realistic 3D camera in After Effects, and you can achieve incredible results.
Audience: For intermediate to advanced users of both Photoshop and After Effects. Class assumes a basic comfort with layer masking and using 3D cameras.
Instructor: Rich Harrington, President, RHED Pixel, Inc.
Combining Particles & Type in Apple Motion
You’ve seen this technique in popular films and TV commercials. Learn how to create movement within a photo. By harnessing the power of layers, masks, and cloning we can create a layered image that’s ready for After Effects. Add a realistic 3D camera in After Effects, and you can achieve incredible results.
Audience: For intermediate to advanced users of both Photoshop and After Effects. Class assumes a basic comfort with layer masking and using 3D cameras.
Instructor: Yan Shvalb, Founder VizualFX
2:00 - 3:15pm
Photoshop and Masking in Depth
Great transparency starts with perfect layer masks. It is essential to master this important skill in order to achieve better composites. This class is suitable for all levels of users and will teach you essential compositing skills.
Instructor: Rod Harlan, Evangelist/Founder, Digital Video Professionals
2:00 - 4:45pm
In-Depth: Smoke, Mirrors, Cameras and Lights -
Getting More from 3D in AE
Adobe After Effects and other motion graphics programs now feature 3D space. But that doesn’t mean you have to use them like normal 3D programs. This idea generator session will present several different ways to exploit the 3D cameras and lights in After Effects to create useful and unusual looks. In this session you will learn how to re-lighting already-shot footage, create unusual zooms, build camera rigs to create dolly and crane shots and set up multiple camera edits in 3D space.
Instructor: Chris Meyer, Founder, CyberMotion
3:30 - 4:45pm
Speed up your After Effects Workflow with Scripting
Simplify difficult tasks and cut out the boring, repetitive jobs with Javascript and Expressions in After Effects.
Expressions and Javascript are two of the most powerful features of After Effects. But please don’t let that dreaded ‘S’ word scare you away from using them. Although you can use After Effects without ever needing to venture into the world of scripting, learning how to use them is fairly easy and is guaranteed to change the way you use After Effects in the future.
During this session your confidence will build as you learn the basics regarding expressions and Javascript. Processes will be explained clearly and you’ll discover that you don’t need to be a programmer or a scripting genius to make use of these wonderful features.
In this session you’ll discover ways of linking properties together, editing multiple properties simultaneously, looping animated keyframes and randomizing values. You’ll also learn to use Javascript to control the application and automate lots of boring repetitive tasks.
Level – Intermediate to Advanced
Instructor: Angie Taylor, Animator and Digital Artist
5:00 - 6:15pm
Using Input Devices for After Effects and Motion
Learn strange and wonderful ways to use your mouse, graphics tablet and other input devices to control your animations and designs.
Graphics tablets can be used for pressure-sensitive painting and rotoscoping in After Effects. They are also invaluable for creating movements and paths for your animations. Learn how you can combine the Motion Sketch panel in conjunction with expressions to create all sorts of interesting animations, that would otherwise be very tricky to produce.
If you have never used a graphics tablet before I thoroughly recommend attending this session. They are much easier and more creatively flexible to use than a mouse. They take a little time to adjust to and once you’ve started using one, you’ll never want to go back.
Level – Beginner to Advanced
Instructor: Angie Taylor,Animator and Digital Artist
After Effects Classic Effects
The majority of effects used on a day-to-day basis in most projects are pretty basic. The techniques and methods are recipes that change little from project to project. But if you don’t know the basic recipes, you’re in big trouble! In this session, we will run through a short-list of some of the most commonly used techniques. We will break down how they are put together, and where and how they are applied. In the end, you will see that the underlying work in the majority of effects is pretty simple and that a basic knowledge of these techniques allows you to tackle a great range of work. (This was last year’s Hollywood Effects session, updated. All Levels.)
Instructor: Trish Meyer, Founder, CyberMotion
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