I chose to create 5 separate title animations. I'm trying to learn all I can about Adobe After Effects. So, I figured the more tutorials I did the more I can learn about the effects in After Effects and the better I will be at using them. I got all of my tutorials from Video Copilot, created by Andrew Kramer.
Planning:
I chose to do one animation per week. This deadline added a level of difficulty to my animations because some took more time than others and required me to focus a lot more. But the ones that were more difficult ended up looking cooler than in the tutorial due to the fact that I had to figure out some of the processes that Kramer did not explain as well as I would have liked, or my computer couldn't do that.
Creation:
So, first things first, I watched the final product of the tutorial and decided if it would be worth doing, in only a weeks worth of time. I did run into a snag with my energy wipe animation, because I failed to notice that it was only 9 minutes long. I originally thought that it was just a quick tutorial. However, I quickly learned it was just a extension of an already existing tutorial that was far longer than I anticipated. However, I was incredibly pleased with the final product, especially considering the very difficult time frame I gave myself. When it was all said and done, I had 5 different title animations, I condensed them all down to 1 single 30 second-ish movie file.
Self-Critique:
I learned more with the effects in After Effects in this sort 6 week period than I learned all of last year. I learned about mesh warps, how to create optical flairs that are not already installed and pre-made, I learned how to use expression effectively on effects as well. I am incredibly pleased with how the entire thing turned out.
Class Critique:
Mr. Netterville after watching my animations, commented that he liked how they turned out, however, he wished that I would have put more thought into selecting the texts I used in the animations and used more originality.
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