Artist Toolkit - After Effects, Savanna Panorama Animation (25/11/16)

For the Adobe After Effects lesson the class was taught how to utilize the layers of an Adobe Photoshop file to create a series of moving images. The series of layers was firstly created in Photoshop portraying a savanna scene. The file was brought into After Effects before being treated as a 3D image to add depth. 

Final layers composed on top of each other

Savanna panorama layers

The final animation that was created consists of the panning camera giving a shadow puppet feel with the still giraffes and grass. To add to the shot a high exposure layer was used and adjusted throughout the 7 seconds. 

 

Artist Toolkit - Maya, Animated UV Surfaces (15/11/16)

For Friday's task the class was asked to animated the surface of our cubes. This was achieved through the use of multiple programs including Adobe Aftereffects, Adobe Bridge and Maya. Using the texture that was created using Adobe Illustrator a frame by frame animation was added with Aftereffects. 

Original UV box texture

Box animation

The final UV was applied to the model box, Despite not being on my original lighting the time to render still took a considerably long time with the more simple set up. However the end result still displays the box with the correct animation.

Final box texture in Maya model