Return-Path: Received: from mail-qc0-f175.google.com ([209.85.216.175] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4961821 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:50:46 +0100 Received: by mail-qc0-f175.google.com with SMTP id j3so1593967qcs.34 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:56:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type; bh=Uf/x6vTylHB7bkCO4cotd4rzC9YHSl4zN//nlH6Pq28=; b=vspzKA9y47IR3cIantXDZ7m2rO+ePnCbbhEgxajwGSPWKbhUEYlnxp87RbJPszHwZq VHb7rvCmVOUWS7nbhiyP65vMQExCbMqQBdVTm+nhK/xfHk8oy95G+9/ntFQq3m6fKmJL ae92UJDeZm6BzMkxcgoJfQWWAc95WYDvo4CigEMpvAQAQv48IWrUPzRSiEWv6QafND5H VUCfQxjd9m8UOunbk+aGvBlbcLB2gp9cTF7xp95wnvCY0eKKqaRLFbVFAi0fDcuI6/jq Kaosdy6Qb8hEWJ7AGVBfBr1nfR4QBpUjCsLdBvTGGydq3cBihoEmg3jwMrzHRKQPNBLR NZAQ== X-Received: by 10.229.197.140 with SMTP id ek12mr4186433qcb.110.1359417383948; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:56:23 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.49.106.226 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:55:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Teddy Gage Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:55:43 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] Style/device suggestions... To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e6d265194592d004d4620629 --0016e6d265194592d004d4620629 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 first of all, good luck, you're crazy. I did a piece like this with about 100 slide / transitions (with maybe 3 or 4 images per "slide" and it took over two weeks, with picky clients, and I was working over 80 hours a week. And I think the piece was closer to 3:30 - keep it as simple as possible. Animation presets are your friend. Or create your own two or three stock transitions and use them over and over again. drag and drop the presets - don't use a camera unless you have to - it will just complicate things. keep it 2D as much as possible. even with two people it sounds like you're going to be up for long stretches at a time. Your brain is going to hate you for putting in that 3d camera sweep at the beginning of the project at 4 am on due day. if you must use cameras make them single-node. double node cameras are a pain when keyframe interpolation screws up your bezier animation curves. - organize and label everything. predict mistakes ahead of time. it sounds crazy but a small problem will ripple across hundreds of comps you won't have time to change when rendering. keep the project as clean and tight as possible. time spent up front will save you later on - preview everything low res to speed up your workflow. seconds wasted rendering ram previews are precious. lay everything out roughly and refine it in iterations. most important to get overall timing down first - also, expressions are your friend. I used this great plugin http://aescripts.com/ft-effect-instance/ - which allows a node-like control of all effects in a project. This means there is one "master copy" of an effect that will then ripple changes throughout the project, say if the clients want a page turn a different color and it's on hundreds of layers. - I also used some customized expressions to control multiple transitions with sliders and linked to master nulls good luck On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:37 PM, D wrote: > Hi, > > I have a job starting tomorrow. 4 minutes of animation to be done in 3 > days. There are 2 of us on it. There's no style guide, it hasn't been > designed yet and apparently, it's mostly images (many of which are yet to > be sourced) with a little text here and there. > > So that's a 4 minute piece designed, images sourced and animated in 3 days > that needs to look engaging somehow! Sounds crazy right?! > > Obviously we need some kind of device that will allow us to move between > lots of stills in a dynamic way and my first thought was to use Sure > Target. I just wondered if anyone has done something similar and used a > different device that I've missed or if anyone knows of any examples that > might help inspire us? > > Any help much appreciated. > -- Animator & Editor www.teddygage.com Brooklyn --0016e6d265194592d004d4620629 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable first of all, good luck, you're crazy. I did a piece like this with abo= ut 100 slide / transitions (with maybe 3 or 4 images per "slide" = and it took over two weeks, with picky clients, and I was working over 80 h= ours a week. And I think the piece was closer to 3:30

- keep it as simple as possible. Animation presets are your = friend. Or create your own two or three stock transitions and use them over= and over again. drag and drop the presets

- don&#= 39;t use a camera unless you have to - it will just complicate things. keep= it 2D as much as possible. even with two people it sounds like you're = going to be up for long stretches at a time. Your brain is going to hate yo= u for putting in that 3d camera sweep at the beginning of the project at 4 = am on due day. if you must use cameras make them single-node. double node c= ameras are a pain when keyframe interpolation screws up your bezier animati= on curves.=A0

- organize and label everything. predict mistakes ahead= of time. it sounds crazy but a small problem will ripple across hundreds o= f comps you won't have time to change when rendering. keep the project = as clean and tight as possible. time spent up front will save you later on<= /div>

- preview everything low res to speed up your workflow.= seconds wasted rendering ram previews are precious. lay everything out rou= ghly and refine it in iterations. most important to get overall timing down= first

- also, expressions are your friend. I used this great = plugin=A0http://aescri= pts.com/ft-effect-instance/ - which allows a node-like control of all e= ffects in a project. This means there is one "master copy" of an = effect that will then ripple changes throughout the project, say if the cli= ents want a page turn a different color and it's on hundreds of layers.=

- I also used some customized expressions to control mu= ltiple transitions with sliders and linked to master nulls

good luck

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 a= t 6:37 PM, D <dow.hanson@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I=A0have a job starti= ng tomorrow. 4 minutes of animation to be done in 3 days. There are 2 of us= on it. There's no style guide, it hasn't been designed yet and app= arently, it's mostly images (many of which are yet to be sourced)=A0wit= h a little text here and there.=A0

So that's a 4 minute piece=A0designed, i= mages sourced and animated in 3=A0days that needs to look engaging somehow<= span>!=A0Sounds crazy right?!=A0

Obviously = we need some kind of device that will allow us to move between lots of stil= ls in a dynamic way and my first thought was to use Sure Target. I just won= dered if anyone has done something similar and used a different device that= I've missed or if=A0anyone knows of any examples that might help inspi= re us?=A0

Any help much appreciated.=A0



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Animator & Editor
www.teddygage.com
Brooklyn
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