In this tutorial we will be using After Effects to animate elements of your Lemony Scrubbits Illustrator file from Tutorial 4. We will be learning a bit more about creating compositions in 3D space as well as a brand new effect to add a bit of polish that can even be applied your own work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part C. Bringing in the Camera
Part D. Animating The Camera Movement
Part E. Add a Shimmer Effect to the Title
Final Product Preview (See Fig 1):
Fig 1 - Preview of the Final Product
<aside> ⚠️ ADOBE FILE MANAGEMENT: Keep ALL assets (media files) in the same folder/location. Adobe does not know where your media is if it is scattered and will cause errors. Do NOT work off Cloud Storage (iCloud, Google Drive, Adobe Cloud): This can cause you to lose project progress and assets. Use cloud storage as storage backup only!
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<aside> 📕 Assets in the tutorials provided for you are copyrighted materials. These are just for learning purposes only. When you do your assignments, your assets/materials are expected to be your own original work. You are permitted to use any fonts you find as well as audio from The Creative School audio library. (Great fonts can be found here)
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You can use your Lemony Scrubbits file exports from Tutorial ( 1 x lemony-scrubbits_Logo.ai, 1 x lemony-scrubbits_Lemon.ai) into the current project folder to keep everything in your project at the same location. Otherwise you can utilize the downloaded versions from this week's downloaded D2L files.
Open up After Effects application
Select New Project (See Fig 2)
Fig 2 - New Project Button
Fig 3 - Importing the Assets
Once your files are imported, you will see them appear in the Project Panel. Create a new composition by going to Composition → New Composition OR use the shortcut: Mac: (Command and N) OR Win: (Ctrl and N)
In this composition settings window please fill out and assure you match the following settings:
Fig 4 - Composition Settings