The Promise of Music is to love and to serve.

The power of universal love to open the hearts of all beings on space station Earth.

JESUS appears!!! OCT 20, 2009 King Street Park

Finding unity in the chaos!!!
An exercise in creative imagination.
We did this together.
Everyone participated...
and
A star is born.

Lighting & Special Effects

Look what you can do today:



Lighting may be found inside some special effects.
For instance, Shatter includes lights and cameras




TRY THIS EXERCISE

___ new comp
___ type "3D TYPE"
___ Effect > Simulation > Shatter

set Shatter effect controls:
___ Shatter: Shape / Custom Shatter Map - 1. 3D TYPE layer
___ Shatter: Shape / Extrusion Depth ... vary the slider (or set to a value)
___ Shatter: View - Rendered

[Notice the 2D layer now looks 3D ]
Shatter effect controls:
Fill out the sides of the 3D text:
___ Textures: Side Mode - set to Color, white
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Fixed Tiles
if you check the box "White Tiles Fixed",
the tiles will not move/shatter, and you end up with 3D extruded type.
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LIGHTING
set Shatter effect controls:
___ Shatter: Lighting / Light Intensity
___ Shatter: Lighting / Light Color
___ Shatter: Lighting / Light Depth
___ Shatter: Lighting / Ambient Light

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ADD A LIGHT Layer AND ATTACH IT TO THE SHATTER EFFECT
Layer > New > Light
set Shatter effect controls:
___ Shatter: Lighting / Light Type : First Comp Light
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ADD A CAMERA
Layer > New > Camera
try a 35mm camera

Attach the light to the effect:
set Shatter effect controls:
___ Camera System: Comp Camera

Use the Orbit tool (C) to move the camera around the type
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ADD A TEXTURE TO THE TYPE

___ add a jpg to the timeline

set Shatter effect controls:
___ Textures: Front Mode - Layer
___ Textures: Front Layer - set to the layer with the jpg in it

___ Hide the layer in the timeline



Continue and set Shatter effect controls:
___ Textures: Side Mode - Layer
___ Textures: Side Layer - set to the layer with the jpg in it

___ Textures: Back Mode - Layer
___ Textures: Back Layer - set to the layer with the jpg in it


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Lots of fun...

have a great day !!!

KINETIC with lights

This week we take a look at lights and lighting effects.

There are four types of lights:
1) Parallel Light: Think of this light source located infinitely far off in the distance. Imagine it's like the sun.
2) Spot Light: This light has a position and source location you can define. THis is a typical light used in concert, theatre, and film production.
3) Point Light: This is an omnidirectional light. Imagine a light bulb here.
4) Ambient Light: No position. It just illuminates the scene. ( It has no icon in the Comp window)

This video example uses two lights, with the spot set as an adjustment layer.
• 3D type
• Spotlight within an adjustment layer
• Ambient light

"Place" is at the root of this poem

Take a deep look at your poem.
Look for the light, object and shadow.
In other words, look for the adjectives and nouns, adverbs and verbs. These will help with how you animate the story.

If "place" is at the center of the whole, then everything must be centered upon what "place" is, what it means to be in-place, to be placed, to place, place. The concept of "place" holds the whole thing together. The story of this TV station is all about "place."



Deconstruct your kinetic poem. Find it's essence/center point. Everything will flow out from this place. :-)

Adjustment Layer

When you set a Light to be an Adjustment Layer (set the layer switch), the light only affects the layers directly below it in the Timeline, even if the light is shining directly on the object in space.




Adjustment layer removed:

ANIMATE THE LIGHTS

ANIMATE THE LIGHTS
to lighten the scene over time

10 second time set in the comp

AMBIENT LIGHT
Set Ambient Light inTensity value to change over time:
___ move CTI (Current Time Indicator) to 5s
___ select Ambient Light, press T (inTensity)
___ click the Stopwatch to set a Keyframe

___ move the CTI to 2s
___ change inTensity to 0%

HOLD DOWN OPTION AND SCRUB THROUGH THE TIMELINE FROM 2s to 5s
to see the lighting inTensity change

SPOT LIGHT
Set Spot Light inTensity value to change over time:
___ move CTI (Current Time Indicator) to 5s, or Go To Time: 5;
___ select Spot Light, press T (inTensity)
___ click the Stopwatch to set a Keyframe

___ move the CTI to 2s, or Go To Time: 2;
___ change inTensity to 0%


Light flickers over time example:
Set Spot Light inTensity value to change over time:
At 1:28, 100%
At 1:26, 0%

At 1:24, 100%
At 1:21, 0%

At 1:18, 100%
At 1:15, 0%
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Week #7: Kinetic Poem Design & Lights

Kinetic Poem Design:
This week we will re-examine the core idea driving the three projects.
Ideally, all three multimedia forms will be deeply inter-connected.
• The TV station bumper defines the brand.
• The kinetic poem tells the story with type, words, audio, and motion.
• The title sequence tells the story with type, images, and music.


Lights:
This week we will work with lighting in AE, in 2D and 3D compositions.

Start with 3D type we created last week:


Add a Spotlight:
SHIFT & OPTION & COMMAND & L
___ Light Type: Spot
___ Intensity: 60%
___ Cone Angle: 90º
___ Cone Feather: 50%
___ RGB Color: 75, 50, 100
___ check Casts Shadows
___ Shadow Darkness: 100%
___ Shadow Diffusion: 20px


With 2 Views Selected
LEFT: Custom View 1
RIGHT: Front
___ Move light along the Z axis:
___ drag Z (Light) upwards... is placing the light Closer to the object
___ drag Z (Light) downwards... is placing light Farther away from the object



View from Front:

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REPOSITION THE LIGHT ON TOP OF THE TYPE
With 2 Views Selected
LEFT: Custom View 1
RIGHT: Active Camera
___ In the Light 1 layer, Press "P" for Position property
___ Increase the Intensity to 1000%
___ Cone Angle: 180º

LEFT: Custom View 1 view


RIGHT: Active Camera window

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Add an Ambient Light:

SHIFT & OPTION & COMMAND & L
or Layers > New > Light

___ name it: Ambient Light
___ Light Type: Ambient
___ Intensity: 50%, try a negative value such as - 50
___ 54, 64, 94

Intensity set to -50%:
LEFT: Custom View 1 view:


RIGHT: Active Camera window view:


Intensity set to 50%:
LEFT: Custom View 1 view:


RIGHT: Active Camera window view:

3D text example

Featuring the following items:
• 3D layer switch
• Text Tool
• Command & D to duplicate a layer
• Collapse Transformations switch
• Effect > Generate > Grid
• Layer > Guide Layer
• Overlay Mode
• X Rotation +90º
• Effect > Noise & Grain > Fractal Noise
• Effect > Generate > Ramp
• Radial Ramp
• Layer > New > Solid
• Orbit Camera
• Stopwatch Expression:
thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.position+[0,0,1]

3D Basic Animation

Weekly Exercise: The Animated Poem

This week we will begin the kinetic poetry project.

Select and bring into class, a poem that will fit with the theme of your TV Channel.

This week we will use the title of the poem in a 3D modeling exercise.

We will also look for objects (nouns), descriptors (adjectives) and action words (verbs) in the poem. These will help with the kinetic translation.

This week's exercise is to sketch out a storyboard based on the characters, words, phrases of the poem.

What's due this week:
1) 3D title
2) storyboard based on the poem

3D Book: Creating Top and Bottom

Continuing on with the 3D book example....
In this HOW TO the top and bottom and pages are created to form the book content.

Included in this HOW TO:
• 3D switch
• duplicate layers (Command & D)
• camera orbit tool (C)
• arrow keys
• X Rotation
• Z Rotation

Project #2: The Kinetic Type Poem

Choose a poem that would play on your TV Channel. The content must fit with the theme of the station.


Kinetic typography refers to the art and technique of expression with animated text.

Similar to the study of traditional typography of designing static typographic forms, kinetic typography focuses on understanding the effect time has on the expression of text. Kinetic typography has demonstrated the ability to add significant emotive content and appeal to expressive text, allowing some of the qualities normally found in film and the spoken word to be added to static text.

Kinetic type has been widely and successfully used in film as well as in television and computer-based advertising. Perceptual psychology research on attention, reading performance, and comprehension has indicated that time-based presentation of text can be used effectively to capture and manipulate a viewer’s attention and in some cases improve overall reading performance.

Rationale Text Reference: http://johnnylee.net/kt/

DESCRIPTION AND TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Choose a poem and design an animated sketch based upon the story. Animate the type: letters, words and lines to tell the story. Create a kinetic poetry video using AE and post it on YouTube.

The project must include the following technical items and criteria:
1. Poem text;
2. Use of text animation presets;
3. Use of ease-in/out;
4. Animated type and custom shapes with a motion path;
5. Masking;
6. 3D model;
7. Multiple lights;
8. Use of a track matte;
9. Output final to QuickTime file format;
10. Post the video on YouTube;
11. Include music track;
12. At least four special effects;
13. All production and final files must be archived to a CD-R and/or DVD-R.

Creating A Spine For A 3D Book

Featured items:
• Rename comp and layers
• Using a solid layer to create a 3D book spine
• Y Rotation +90º
• Camera tools

HOW TO video:

Week #6: Kinetic Type & 3D Objects (Images & Type)

First,
This week we begin working on a kinetic poem.
1) Have your poem selected, for use this week. You will use the title in a 3D modeling exercise.
2) Look for objects (nouns), descriptors (adjectives) and action words (verbs) in the poem. These will help with the kinetic translation.
3) Sketch out a storyboard for next time we meet.

Second,
We begin to look at 3D modeling and animation in AE.
• Creating a grid from a Solid layer
• Setting a Guide layer
• Using views
• 2D to 3D switch
• Camera Orbit Tool
• X & Y Rotation

HOW TO:
Here we have the beginnings of a 3D book, made out of a 2D image.

Featuring:
• Solid Layer creation
• Transforming a solid layer into a grid
• Transforming a grid into a guide layer
• Repositioning the grid with an X Rotation
• Setting an image to be 3D
• Adjusting the position of an image with the position value
• Using the Camera Orbit Tool (C)
• Flipping an image using 180º Y Rotation

Week #5: TV Station Bumper Review

Today we will review the TV Bumper project and prepare for the next two projects.
Prepare a pdf file, explaining the design process for creating the Bumper.
Save the video, full resolution to a DVD-R.


1.http://www.youtube.com/aftereffectsstudent

2. http://www.youtube.com/user/etherealed

3. http://www.youtube.com/user/100492689
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4. http://www.youtube.com/user/carwu73

5. http://www.youtube.com/user/babopari82

6. http://www.youtube.com/user/sssuneo
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7. http://www.youtube.com/user/Pantone119

8. http://www.youtube.com/user/Ambipath#play/all

9. http://www.youtube.com/user/Aimee3023
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10l. http://www.youtube.com/user/thedigitalstudent

11. http://www.youtube.com/user/utubekowalski

12. http://www.youtube.com/user/iceheat09
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13. http://www.youtube.com/user/robertmilne130

14. http://www.youtube.com/user/simplyayu

15. http://www.youtube.com/user/mishmedia
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16. http://www.youtube.com/user/theepicardilladog

17. http://www.youtube.com/user/brittanymakesvideos

18. http://www.youtube.com/user/rZheng
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19. http://www.youtube.com/markcshawmultimedia

20. http://www.youtube.com/user/campbellphil

21. http://www.youtube.com/user/lee4044
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22. http://www.youtube.com/user/JahmBProducts

23. http://www.youtube.com/user/ShaneLafever

24. http://www.youtube.com/user/SkeltonDesign
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25. http://www.youtube.com/user/MitchellTremblay

26. http://www.youtube.com/user/spriteisawesome


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