Shape movement tutorial on After Effects

In this tutorial we learned how to move an object in After Effects after making the object in Illustrator. In my case I made a footballer. We had to make each joint as a separate layer in Illustrator (such as the shoulder, leg, arms, etc.). After importing the object into After Effects, we had to join the  separate layers of the object to the body (hand > wrist > arm > shoulder > body etc.) via the parent tool on After Effects. Once this was done we had to move around the anchor points on a body part to make them move similarly to a human body.

Footballer from Junaid Arshad on Vimeo.

Rocket & Pear (Illustrator workshop)

To make the pear was actually very simple. Once I had the image of the pear, we then used the Mesh Tool to create a 3D net over the shape of the pear. Once this was done it was the long process of clicking each point using the direct selection tool and the Eyedropper tool to select the colour of the pear under that certain point. This would colour that point of the mesh in. Once all points had been selected and sampled I found a texture to put on the pear. This was to make it look more realistic. To do this we just had to select an area of the texture and crop it down to the shape of the pear, and turn the opacity down to around 10%.

These 9 print-screens briefly show the stages of making the rocket using illustrator. I first used the Ellipse tool to create the basic shape of the rocket and then modified it using the Direct selection Tool to form the shape seen on the first screenshot. For the rest of the screen shots it consisted of the same technique. To create the dashed lines and patterns etc, I Stuck to using the 'Apearance" window through out all these processes.

Simple shapes animation test on After Effects

This is a quick test I did in order to help me practice towards my final piece for Earth Artifact.

Simple shapes animation test on After Effects from Junaid Arshad on Vimeo.

Kinetic Typography after effects workshop - Physical Studio

In this workshop with Sara we we taught the process of how to make simple kinetic typography in Adobe After Effects. First we had to choose a quote to make into kinetic typography. Once this was done we made a layout page in Illustrator to give an idea of the font & colours which were going to be used.

After this we started to lay the page out in After Effects like we did in Illustrator (my layout changed a bit when we did this) and then we added an audio track to make the kinetic typography fall in time to. Below is my end result.

My first attempt at Kinetic Typography from Junaid Arshad on Vimeo.

After Effects animation workshop - Physical Studio

In this session with Sara our group looked at making images in Adobe Illustrator and then animating them in Adobe After Effects. With the image in Illustrator, we had to make the limbs of moving joints of the picture as a separate layer before moving them into After Effects in order to animate each part separately. Below is the Illustrator part of my animation which was of a footballer.

Artist typeface transcription (Part 1) - Process & Production

In this process & production session with John I was looking at typography. At the start of the session, John showed the group some examples of typography from previous students and told us how they were made with a few of them - he showed a picture of something (say a building) and pointed out how there was shape in it which looked a letter of the alphabet.

After looking at several images which John gave us as help for our development, we had develop our own typography from looking at the images and picking letters out. Below is the result of what I did.