Final Journal/Blog of Experimental Animation Project

This was a little early than plan. The third and final Journal of the Experimental Animation I have created.

22/10/10

Today I went into After Effects, I created my spinning circles, and I made the effect in After Effects using Red Giant 3D Stroke. I simply created a new solid and applied the 3D stroke effects. I then used the pen tool to create a circle and adjusted the values of the 3D stroke effect so that they all rotate at different speeds. Then I exported the video to a QuickTime file.

25/10/10

I’ve been continuing with Photoshop today. I started duplicating the barcode layers a few times in Photoshop today to make the next part of the animation, were I make the barcode shrink a few times in each layers, by using the free transforming tool. Afterwards I duplicate the layers each time I want to make with each frame. With the bending of the barcode I use in Photoshop I have made this by edit – transform – wrap then duplicate each layer each time I bended the barcode each time making different layer.

Afterwards I went into the animation set up in Photoshop, went into the animation timeline and place were each frame were the barcode is disappearing. Then I went to export – render video to the next bit of the animation is completed.

26/10/10

With all my QuickTime files I have done, I‘ve placed them all into Final Cut Pro, place them onto the timeline. Then with the spinning circles, I felt the animation need to make it slower, so I right click into menu bar find speed, in speed side bar change the speed to 80 percent, clicked ok.

With all my QuickTime files I have done, I‘ve placed them all into Final Cut Pro, place them onto the timeline. Then with the spinning circles, I felt the Afterwards I went into file – export –QuickTime Movie. I exported the animation into a QuickTime file. Now is time to show the animation to my peers’, for some feedback.

The animation above this the 26th October showing of the Animation, while one below is the 2nd November animation I showed by Peers, only thing needs to improve is sound. So that is the end of the project. Bye.