Typography and Paper

Although these are mainly Print based I just wanted to look around at ways of making things out of paper and also for various typographic layouts.

I could easily transfer something like this into an animated format.

Paper seems to add a lovely aesthetic and so would work really well on screen as it is something a little different to usual.

Sea Creatures

sea life

mike flower - After Effects session5

AUDIO!
Find sound effects etc on the internet. Royalty free Audio - free downloadable sounds.
Appropriate file formats. AIFF mac standard audio file format.
WAV - pc
MP3
Don't use flac/m4a files. convert to one of others.
file>import>choose file. drag into composition.
Equivalant layer properties when working with Audio. (no transform properties)
'audio level' -volume of audio. (works with key frames)
'0' does not mean no sound - just how it would be played without changing settings.

GROUPING

Parent/child relationship. Layers are attached to other layers by selecting 'parent' on the main layer.

Nesting

After Effects session 4

Presets and effects.
Select from Right hand of screen. Can be altered within the composition/layer info. Similarly to when you create the layer for yourself.




Settings within layers.
hide layer, constantly rasterise, Quality(slash). (icons in bar of layer.)
Smoothing out, motion blur, Adjustment layer.

Title Sequences