This lecture was with Sara. which focused on after effects. I have become more and more interested in after effects throughout the year as i have become more informed on how to use the program and have started to create more aesthetically pleasing results. The lecture had a lot of visual aids that allowed us to see what sort of things could be created on the adobe program.
Just one day was a piece that was shown in the lecture that showed a mixture of stop motion graphics created by hand, that had been added to adobe after effects in order to animate and scale. I think that the finish of this piece is spectacular, and the mixture between the hand made element and software works really well. I have created a stop motion piece in the past for my visualisation of sound piece. This was done through blowing ink around a page and then taking pictures that were used in after effects. This gave a better texture and realness to the work, and i believe that the same applies here.
We also looked at another animation that was created by hand and then later added to after effects, however this is a lot more sophisticated. The animation is by Drew Tyndell who works for cartoon network. The video was created frame by frame which allowed more movement. This is called 'romoscoping' and as you could imagine takes a very long time.
I enjoyed this seminar, as i am becoming more and more interested in after effects and animation as i learn more about it and some of the outputs that are possible. I am not very strong at drawing, therefore may struggle creating something that is drawing based, however it interests me greatly as a concept.
