#speedgrowth

[shiroselia]

Ah yes, Manda plays Three Houses for the first time, or as I like to call it

"Does this game just have a really low speedgrowth or is half my army being speedskrewed?"

[redbullseb]

i got some people asking how i did some of the animation stuff in my charles killshot edit so here's some of my thought process for this section!

do note that my ae layout is incredibly messy (as i have been told numerous times by all my editing friends) so if you're starting out on after effects pls be kind to yourself and your eyes and. use a better layout. ok anyway

1. the slide to the left

i pre-composed the first "scene" (charles' back with the word "GOD" on the upper left) and nested it in this composition (named "honey" bc i'm awful at organization on this)! then i parented the elements of the next scene (with the heart and the flatline) to the nested precomp and adjusted the x position keyframes so that it'd have a smooth slide left. the image on the left is my set-up, the image on the right is my value-time keyframe graph.

2. broken heart

i dug through my files and found a heart i made, though obviously u could just find a clipart heart and it'd work the same. i toggled 3d, edited the y rotation of the heart, and made similar curves to what i showed in (1). then i masked out the breaks in the heart, duplicated the layer, inverted the mask on the duplicated layer, and changed the anchor points so that the heart would break in the same spot when i adjusted the z rotation. i duplicated the heart layer again, deleted the mask, and made it black with a fill to hide the break from the masked heart below. then i added a text layer ("heart"), toggled 3d on That, and parented it to the top-most heart layer. THEN i duplicated the text layer twice and changed the z rotation and scale on both so that i'd have "ST" and "OP" on each half of the heart. parented the text layers to their respective heart-half layers, and boom u have a broken heart.

the song had a percussive thing on the word "stop," so i parented the heart layers to a null object and made a quick scale.. bump.. thing. visually it allowed me to get away with being lazy and instead of transitioning out of the top-most heart layer i just. cut it off completely LMFAO.

3. the bullet

this one's pretty simple! it's just position keyframes and null object parenting. i took an image of a bullet from the web and filled it so that it was black, plopped it off-screen, went forward a few frames and had it fly through the screen. i made a text layer ("honey"), adjusted it so that it fit inside the bullet, and parented it to the bullet layer. after all that, i made the null object slide to the bottom left and also zoomed in. below is what the scene looked like after those keyframes! highlighted is the null object with the second "scene" on the bottom left, and to the far left is the first "scene."

4. where the bullet lands

i'd made flower borders using a flower speedgrowth vid from national geographic and i just placed them around this next "scene"! the charles footage is from his armani interview, and i used the puppet tool to bend the flowers around the square. i then added a drop shadow to the charles footage and used "roughen edges" to take away some of the sharpness and add more to the scene.

for the grid effect below that climbs in: i duplicated the white solid i had as a background (so that it was all parented to the null object and would move accordingly), added a grid effect, and used a grid wipe transition. ran out of image space oop!

anyway! if u can make sense of any of this then great! i hope it helps in ur motion graphics endeavours! if not then i'm happy to answer questions <3 i adore this program and have slowly but surely been converting people to ae users so!! good luck besties

[lisablasstudio]

Monday's image: March 13, 2017

Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled, from the series The Border, Chromogenic print, 63 x 45 3/8 inches, 2010, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California