1-2:50 p.m. Monday, May 4th, 2015 is our exam time.
- Birds - Two Creative Cow video tutorials and a set of study
questions:
- Study guide to the
Creating
a Flying Bird Creative Cow tutorial. Video is 7:53 in length.
Watch it, review it, you did this for an assignment.
- Study guide to the
Creating
a Flock of Flying Birds Creative Cow
tutorial. Video is 9:45 in length. Watch and review and take notes.
You did this for an assignment.
- As you study/watch and review the Flying Bird and Flock videos, look at
questions
CC1
through CC11. CC = Creative Cow.
All 11 of the CC1, CC2,
... CC11 questions are about the Creating a Flock of Birds
Part 1 and Part 2 video tutorials. THEY ARE VERY SIMPLE QUESTIONS ON
THE VIDEO for CS 1025 Computational Modeling and Simulation students
who had very little experience with using After Effects.
Please IGNORE and DISREGARD the NL1
through
NL4, as
those questions are about NetLogo turtle graphics and were only for
students in the LAC course Computational Modeling and Simulation.
- Bird Flock
part 2 notes, hand-written for the in-class exercise. Study these
notes for the test. Compare them to your own notes from watching the
video.
- Here is the Adobe Illustrator file that you build the flying single
bird from in tutorial part 1:
Download the BirdArt.ai
file and import it as footage.
- Lesson 07:
TIME REMAPPING and LOOPING expressions. Speed up, slow down,
reverse time. Repeating and looping a set of keyframes.
- Camtasia 10 minute 22 second Time
Remapping video
tutorial review of what we did from the After Effects Apprentice
book in two different classes. Follows the
Time
Remapping handout you received in class, step by step.
SPRING 2014: Also exactly follows the textbook
(Follows the LYNDA
videos for SPRING 2014):
VIP: Time
Remapping video(s):
4m 39s Spotting Hit
Points in Time and 7m 51s Keyframing time (lynda.uni.edu)
Lesson
07 chapter of AE Apprentice.
Please do not cry over spilled
milk. We
can make time go backwards and it magically all goes back inside the
glass.
- VIP: Lesson
01 notes and quiz study guide. Know the AE basics (January 2014
material and introductory concepts).
- Change your place in space:
Spatial
Interpolation - making it LINEAR instead of Auto Bezier (Bezier).
Position animation and sharp corners
instead of smooth curved paths:
- APSRO Transform properties and APSRT keyboard shortcuts.
- KNA = Keyframe Navigation Arrows and parking on keyframes. Removing
a keyframe. Adding a KF at the CTI.
- Keyboard techniques: [ and ] and Alt+[ and Alt+]. What does
Alt+Home do?
- SEE LESSON 03 of textbook:
Review of the basics
of LAYERS: CTI, in points, out points, trim and untrim, etc.
Trimming
Layers is 5m 45s lynda tutorial from
Layer Control video chapters of After Effects Apprentice.
- Study over the old quizzes from this Spring of 2014
semester
and the old quizzes from past
semesters.
There are FOUR different PDF documents with most of the pages
of our past quizzes.
Quiz01Feb12th2014.pdf
QuizFourApr7th2014.pdf
QuizFiveApr16th2014.pdf
AE_QuizPagesSpring2014.pdf
See the above link to this Spring of 2014 semester:
OK- on a
quiz answer means your answer was okay that time, (no points taken off),
but any future quiz or test, you would NOT get
full credit for the same answer.
That is what OK- (OK-minus) means as a grade for an answer.
Repository of old quizzes: QUIZZES from 2010 -
IGNORE FLASH BUTTONS! We did NOT cover them in Spring 2012.
NEW: Quizzes
from
2011, including both SPRING 2011 and FALL 2011. Ignore Flash
Buttons and four states of buttons.
- Time Remapping: timeRemap.pdf
you have as a handout. We did this in two different classes this
semester.
NOTE: THIS will be BOTH on the HANDS-ON portion of the class AND
on the written portion of the exam.
- VIP: Cameras and After Effects: Camera
Basics scanned in notes.
One page of notes: Five points to know
about cameras for Spring 2014
- 03/03/2014 assignment: MASKING and using MASKS on
layers in After Effects? RIVERS AND SUNSETS
The Bumping on
Sunset tutorial was covered briefly in class, and then you did it
as an assignment/project.
See LI List Items #1, #2, #3, and #4.
a. See Lesson 4: After Effects Apprentice textbook. Transparent areas are
creating using 3 approaches: Masks, Track Mattes and Stencils.
MASKING = "I want to see only the area inside this shape; make the
outside transparent."
Lesson 4 - Page 88 of After Effects Apprentice book.
b. Shape tools are used to create mask paths. Select the layer 1st, apply
or use the SHAPE tool 2nd.
VIP tip (SPRING 2014 final exam)
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Note: If no layer is selected, the shape tool will create a brand new
SHAPE LAYER. If a layer is pre-selected, then a SHAPE tool will
create a mask path.
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c. Masks only effect the layer immediately underneath the layer, i.e. the
layer the mask is applied to. The mask either hides or reveals the
layer it is applied to. It has no effect on other layers.
Question: When do you get a new SHAPE LAYER instead of a MASK PATH?
WHY?
-
Photoshop for
After Effects: September 7th, 2011
how to zoom it; move it move it move it; color it; cut it; make a new
layer; ...
Photoshop
basics review - see quiz #4 from spring 2011.
We separated the Rock, the Paper, and the Scissors into brand new
Photoshop layers in class.
Know the following tools and techniques:
Eyedropper, Lasso, Color Modes Indexed and RGB and GIF files, how do
zoom in and zoom out, Magic Wand tool, Alt + Backspace to paint with
Foreground color, Paste in Place, ...
- AE Basics 16: Parenting
video tutorial: Using the parenting column. Sun, moon, earth. 14
minute long video tutorial from Creative Cow.
- Good luck on your final exams!