After Effects Weekly Session

Week 1

During this week we had an introduction to Adobe Premier and Adobe After Effects.

In After Effects i created a 2D / 3D image that is created by extracting an eleement (such as a character) out of an image by using the pen tool in photoshop to remove it's background (using an alpha channel), then doing the same for midground and background elements. Then we save these flat images as Targa files to preserve the alpha channel and then import them into After Effects. We can then go into the 3D view, import a camera into the scene and move each image so that they are further away from the camera. So the foreground element is closer, midground further away, background furthest away. We can then animate the camera to move around our images, which when viewed from the camera it gives the flat 2D images a 3D effect, allowing you to use pan and zoom to trick the viewer.