After Effects 1 - Getting to Know the Software

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Production Part 1 from Eve Whelan on Vimeo.


The first After Effects workshop was mainly focussed around getting to grips with the basics of a piece of software I knew nothing about. The task was to create a ten second animation with a series of our own photos. I chose approximately thirty photos from different places I had travelled to; each lot of photos in their own series of roughly four to six. The photos used were taken in Amsterdam, London and a few areas around Cornwall. I am fairly pleased with the result for a first attempt with this piece of software, however I would have preferred to use a set of photos all from the same series or with the same theme.

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