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Jules Verne Voyages
This animation started out (much like the last one) as practice with After Effects. I learned about a function in the program that lets you link several items and revolve them in unison with each other. At the time I was reading some of Jules Verne's classic travel adventures, and thought it would be fun to put them into an animation!
Credit:
Moonlight pt.2 by Roa Music | https://soundcloud.com/roa_music1031
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0)
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The figures and backgrounds were created in Illustrator and imported into After Effects.
I had a lot of trouble getting Nemo's face to show up in the window, as shown below.
I wanted to use a mask, but I found out that you can't mask 3D elements in After Effects (all of the elements were 3D). I got around it by just making a miniature head, and sticking it behind the window.
The squid was another issue. I couldn't for the life of me find out how to change the color of that thing. Eventually, I chose a simple solution: make a duplicate squid with the secondary color, overlay it on top of the first, and just manipulate the opacity of the duplicate! And I think it worked!
I think at a certain point the way you learn how to play the piano is just by playing it. And that goes double for After Effects, and most of the Adobe Suite: if you want to learn it, get in there and mess around with some of the tools! And it might turn into a full blown project, like this one did!
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