1. basic motion practice

At the beginning, we learned about a few movements of shapes and the effect of easy ease.

Tutor Jess gave us an After Effects file including different motion tasks for a few round shapes. For example, the one that impressed me the most was three round shapes that were moving from left to right horizontally with the same speed. The task was to add normal ease or stronger ease to the last two shapes, then learn the difference between ease-added motion and the normal one.

In conclusion, we knew the basic technique of working with After Effects and learned that easy ease in/out would make a motion look more rhythmic and nice.

2. shapes to form a self-portrait:

Firstly, I sketched a bunch of random shapes that I could think of to represent myself. (socially awkward, nervous and hesitating)

choose 3 shapes to make animation: eye/splash/spiky ball

Then I created all of these shapes with the shape layer tool and pen tool in After Effects.

Sep.25