#time remapping

After Effects Day 4

So this beauty, I wish I could say was planned, but turns out it’s an accident. A good accident of course. 

I started off wanting to learn how transitions work. I watched How to create a slide transition in After Effects and successfully created some funky solid layers which rotate in. Check them out here

It was time for something a bit more challenging, which is when I came across How to create a radial transition in after effects.

This tutorial described a transition with circles. Unfortunately my velocity was all off and I accidentally created a series of circles unfolding in a clockwise motion. I quickly moved away from the tutorial, applied some colour and black spots and we have a watermelon!

I dabbled with the positions of the watermelon seeds to drag them all into the centre, OH and time remapping. I couldn’t time remap an individual layer so I found some instructions to precompose the pink and green circles. Still unsure what I’ve done technically speaking, but it enabled the time remapping feature so I could slow the video at the 0:02 second mark. 

The day #7 is my favorite so far (and why wouldn't I start to like them more.) Thus far I've really only been practicing splicing up videos and getting them to sync up to my music but this one I started experimenting with reversing clips and setting them next to each other to create a looping Effect (I tried it briefly on day #4)

The music is getting more dynamic, the videos are getting smarter and this is only becoming more and more fun.

Kenyatta's Favorite Awesome Videos from 2011

I recently posted some of my favorite videos of 2011 to Here's Some Awesome, most of which I've also posted here over the past year.

One video that never made it to this blog was the above: Tokyo Slo-Mode by Alex Lee. Here's my HSA description for it:

I’ve been spending all of my time on VHX and Vimeo lately, fascinated with what people are creating with sub-$1000 DSLRs like the Canon Rebel/KISS series and the Panasonic GH2. The video above isn’t necessarily groundbreaking aesthetically but it was made relatively inexpensively (it boasts of how it was made with a $700 Canon T3i “and starter lenses”) and it looks and feels great. Add in some neat, relatively inexpensive plugins and you have everything you need to tell engaging stories. (Bring Your Own Talent, of course.)