Motion Graphics
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- subSTANCE
Okay... I am REALLY interested in getting into motion graphics work... the problem is I am not at all familiar with After Effects...
I have been reading up on it... and I am a bit confused about something... is AE meant to be used primarily with a 3D graphics program? ie: Maya?... or can these graphics be created within' AE?... shapes, textures, etc... any insight on this program and how it works would be great... assume I know nothing about it... which is almost completly true... thanks!
- funkfelon0
Simple.
All that shit you do in Photoshop.
Make 'EM MOVE!You can do basic 3d in After Effects using addon plugins or the built-in 3d engine.
The High-end 3d shit still needs to be done on the other packages.
In this case. AE is used to composite the scenes and merge with other 2d images you have or live footage for that matter.
- funkfelon0
for quick and simple 3d objects extruded from illustartor files.... 3d invigorator plug in can be added and used within after effects.
Although it's limited in what it can do... you can still get good results if you're clever using it.
- adamfinger0
AE can be used for a number of things. If you want you CAN incorporate 3D elements from Maya, Max, etc but thats not necessarily its primary purpose.
You can create layers from video, photoshop files, from within AE, etc and then animate it within the program itself.
Its fairly easy to pick up on and there were a few threads dealing with it if you look down a bit. The hard part comes from coming up ideas and figuring out how to do it.
Personally, I find it easist to work with both 3D programs and After Effects (or in my case Combustion as I like it more), not necessarily for compositing, but I find it much easier navigating 3D space within a program designed primarily for it rather than using AE's rather-primitive capabilities.
-adam
- subSTANCE0
I sure do like Photoshop!
Okay... um... shit... well, I am the process of "buying" it right now... sooo I think I should really read up on some tutorials and see what it can do...
Would ya happen to have any recommendations on a book for beginners, or anything of that nature?
- funkfelon0
I FULLY reccomend it.
Its the best out there for the price and usability.More than half the Animatrix animations if not all were composited on AE.
Just think of it as Photoshop.
Diff is the layers contain elements that move as opposed to static bitmaps and vectors.
- krts0
I HATED AE when I first tried it. The interface seemed so alien and the workflow was f*cked...
God how I love that program now....
- subSTANCE0
nice... yeah, I really look foward to messin' with what this program can do...
thanks for help!
- modulate0
just buy a dorky tutorial classroom in a book and do all the demos. it may seem like a waste of time, but that is how i learned. after effects isn't really that hard at all.
- subSTANCE0
yeah totally...
thats pretty much the route I have taken with other programs I know... once you have a basic understanding... you can mess around by yourself to figure the rest out
thanks!
- majman0
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