After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games
1h 6mIntermediate2016-11-10
Authors
Chris Meyer
Principle at Crish Design
Trish Meyer
Principle at Crish Design, an award-winning graphic design studio
Course details
Discover how to manipulate time in After Effects. Author Chris Meyer shows how to stop, slow, and speed up footage, and how to combine these techniques with nested compositions, expressions, and the Graph Editor. Along the way, he reveals several important yet somewhat hidden functions, such as the advanced composition setting that ensures predictable stop motion, the Frame Mix and Pixel Motion modes of the Frame Blending switch, and the Time Remap parameter.
Learning objectives
Smoothing out slow motion
Creating stop motion
Creating hold and freeze frames
Keyframing time
Crossfading stop motion frames
Setting multiple playback speeds
Learning objectives
Smoothing out slow motion
Creating stop motion
Creating hold and freeze frames
Keyframing time
Crossfading stop motion frames
Setting multiple playback speeds
Skills covered
Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeLimited SeriesAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Software versions and exercise files
1. Frame Blending for Slow Motion
- 03 - Frame Mix mode
- 04 - Pixel Motion mode
- 05 - Pixel Motion Blue effect
2. Stop Motion and Freeze Frames
- 06 - The Preserve Frame Rate option
- 07 - Calming overactive effects
- 08 - Creating hold and freeze frames
3. Time Remapping
- 09 - Spotting hit points in time
- 10 - Keyframing time
- 11 - Refining speed changes with the Graph Editor
4. Quizzler
- 12 - Quizzler challenge - Looping a composition
- 13 - Quizzler solution
5. Idea Corners
- 14 - Idea corner one - Crossfading stop motion frames
- 15 - Idea corner two - Multiple playback speeds