Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:50:10 -0500 (CDT)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-01-fall@uni.edu
Subject: Visual Effects, Animation, and Motion Graphics assignment:

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Hi 088 students,              (810:088 = VE, A, and MG class)
                                    ---
                                           Its a loooooooooong title!

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/23/AE/DigitalCompositing.html

            is your first assignment and it is due on Friday.

            You have handouts of this pages material, and the URL
            of the page.

    What was shown in class on Monday/

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/    Last Spring's web page,
                                               soon to be this Fall's
                                                URL, which will have
                                                 a handy link to previous
                                                  semester page.

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/weeks1thru5.html

                                              Last spring first 5 weeks.

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/01/Oranges.html

                      Orange slices rotating, rolling and falling.

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/01/GBjan4th09.html

                      Ghostbusters JPG image.

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/01/DWW01052010.html

                      Dances With Wolves you tube video footage
                                   clipnabbed with clipnabber, and
                                        used with JPG and GIF images
                                                to create an AE comp.

      From Monday:  APSRO   Anchor Point     Know your TRANFORM
                            Position            properties that every
                            Scale                  AE layer has.
                            Rotation
                            opaciTy           A P S R O

      A P S R O                                    T
      A P S R T  <------ Why T instead of O?  opaciTy
                             T
      Know the TRANSFORM properties?   A  and  P  and  S  and  R  and  O
                                      ---     ---     ---     ---     ---

               Which ones were used in the ORANGE slice animation?
               Which ones were used in the Ghostbusters animation?
               Which ones were used in the Dances With Wolves video
                                                 segment AE application?

      What does the AE icon look like that allows you to Keyframe a
                           transform property for a LAYER in a COMP?
                                                    -----      ----
      Where do you find that icon?

      What is the CTI?  Current Time Indicator.  How do you move it to the
                                                 start of the entire comp?
                                                 (What shortcut key?)
      What is footage?

      What are the main 3 panels you see and work with when you open up an
                                       After Effects project?

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P.S.  Someone asked about Adobe After Effects CS4 or CS3.
       If I were a student in my class this semester and already had
       Adobe CS3 or Adobe CS4 After Effects, I would NOT buy
       Adobe CS5.   Creative Suite 3 and Creative Suite 4 are similar
       enough and costly enough so that you do NOT have to have the
       latest version.

        Questions like this one are so useful DURING CLASS, instead of
        waiting until right after class to ask the teacher, so I encourage
        you to raise your hand and ask during class, cause the issue
        or concept if too often of use to everyone or many students!

        Sorry I forgot to talk about it for the students who already own
        or have access to CS 3 or CS 4 older versions of After Effects!

        Of course, you can still get and install the newest version of
        AE (CS5 = AE Creative Suite 5) for FREE and use it for 30 days
        later this semester too!  :-)      ----

    Due on Friday (Paper and Pencil or Paper and Pen exercise)

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/23/AE/DigitalCompositing.html


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