Animate Venn Diagrams – Adobe After Effects Tutorial
Venn Diagrams are rad. And in this week’s *quality After Effects Tutorial we’ll make them. And making them is as simple as drawing two circles and colouring. But in after Effects that can be a little tricky. But don’t worry, thankfully this can be found in the area where things you want to do overlap with things I know how to do and things that are tutorials now. See what I did there? It’s a venn diagram joke. Now known as a Venny! As in, that was a wicked venny!
Either way it’s not that tough to make in after effects. It’s a lot of parenting, pick whips, duplicating, and precomping. My god the pre-comps. You won’t believe how many precomps you need to make this venn diagram… well a lot more if you are making a lot more intersections because of the limits of the alpha track matte and the stencil alpha blending mode… but that’ll make sense when you do the tutorial.
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Q&A Facebook Edition – Question 4 (Advice on workflow)
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How do you speed up your work flow? I don’t even know your workflow. Maybe you’re at max speed already. Likely you’re not because you’re asking about it and have gripes. In general though the best thing to do is write it down, plan it out, and look for logical gaps and loops. After that it’s all about what you prefer to do with what programs and how you prefer to manage your time and resources. I don’t know what you’re doing and there isn’t one workflow for all things so the best answer here is just more questions.
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Infinite Cutout Animation – Adobe After Effects tutorial
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Today we’ll be faking stop motion animation in after effects. I once saw an artist, and I say artist because they are truly great at this kind of thing, animate in after effects, print out every frame, and then stack and photograph them in stop motion. It was amazing and looked good and now I’ve copied it in a cheap knock off version and feel dirty… have fun with the tutorial!
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Moving Frames Montage Template Trailer
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This is a trailer for the ECAbrams template file “Moving Frames Montage” available at http://evanabrams.com/product-item/moving-frames-montage-template/ .and you can see how to use this file here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxaQQsFREjg
All you need to do is put footage in the “holder” comps and export the “export THIS” comp. You will be fine. But if you have any questions just let me know in the comments.
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How to use the Moving Frames Montage Template
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This is how to use the ECAbrams template file “Moving Frames Montage” available at http://evanabrams.com/product-item/moving-frames-montage-template/ .and you can see how this should look when you use it right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44EXdoiCQRs
All you need to do is put footage in the “holder” comps and export the “export THIS” comp. You will be fine. But if you have any questions just let me know in the comments.
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Q&A Facebook Edition – Question 3 (About Colour [color] Correction and Grading)
Let’s talk about colour correction and colour grading and how you might be wrong about how you use those words. And then we’ll talk about why that’s important. And then I’ll not apologize for insulting your intelligence.
Just remember colour correcting corrects colour. Colour grading changes it to look pretty. Keep your processes strait dawg! Also cs6 no longer has the 3 way color correction. If you ask me about it in the comments I’m going to say read the thing in the video and then made a rude noise. You won’t hear the rude noise but know that I made it.
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Q&A Facebook Edition – Question 2 (Why is Jake so Sexy?)
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Jake asks “WHY AM I SO SEXY”. And I did say I would answer the first five questions so I guess here is the answers? I actually have no idea why anyone is the way they are. I’m certainly no sexual expert or anything over here. But that’s for the question and I’m sure we all hope the next one is about After Effects.
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Q&A Facebook Edition – Question 1 (make more professional colours in After Effects?)
This question comes from Seán Mc Ternan. And he asks “What are the little thing’s you consider important to give an overall ‘Professional’ look and feel to your graphics. Meaning what do you add in terms of blending options to make your colors look more alive rather than a flat?”
Well that’s a lot of things and the answer will likely disappoint you. It’s a lot about choosing good colours. Knowing about colours. And applying colour theory. As well you get an earful about what I REALLY think about your colour choices.
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Q&A Facebook Edition – A very facebook Introduction
A long time ago I tried to answer 100 questions about after effects. I failed. But the dream lives on. Here I’ll answer the first five questions that came up after the post went out on Facebook for questions. These 5 brave people put their uncertainty on the line and now I’ll try to answer their quandaries best I can. Enjoy.
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How to use 5 Colour Animated font from ECAbrams – Adobe After Effects tutorial
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This is how to use the animated font that you can see in action here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uy_shNyo-k
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This will show you how to: Import the files, lay out the letters, sequence layers in time, edit the colours, edit the time offset between the layers, and choose how many layers there are.
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