WEEK 1
We were taught the basics of after effects, with creating shapes and learning how to transform them with movement, squash and stretch, while also learning about easing.
WEEK 2
Using these techniques we learned from week 1, we created a 5 second abstract animation of a self portrait. We started off by sketching some designs for the portrait by using only simple shapes and tried to keep it to around 3 shapes maximum, and making sure we used the ideas of how shapes can represent a characters personality.
I then translated the design to adobe after effects and played with proportions and colours, and then started figuring out how I wanted the shapes to move. I decided to have the shapes topple over, and have them all be different materials to show the different skills we learned previously, keeping in mind how gravity would affect the objects.
After I had established the movement of the shapes, I used certain blending modes to create interesting effects for the animation, and added a paper boil animation for the background of the animation.