Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds
Philip Ebiner
Lesson Info
70. Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds
Lessons
Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates
06:22 2Understand the After Effects Workspace
05:39 3Starting a New Composition
08:15 4CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage
01:55 5Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline
05:08 6Using the Basic After Effects Tools
10:20Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors
03:04 8Working in the Timeline
10:59 9Layer Properties
08:57 10Quiz: After Effects Basics
11Animating in After Effects
07:35 12Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations
05:17 13Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral
04:21 14Using the Graph Editor
05:32 15Challenge - Bouncing Ball
01:01 16Solution - Bouncing Ball
20:20 17Quiz: Animating with Keyframes
18Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects
07:07 19Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths
06:24 20Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients
03:44 21Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag
05:54 22Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers
23Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear
08:37 24Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers
05:34 25Easily Reverse Complicated Animations
02:14 26Playing with Time
05:54 27Blend Modes
06:05 28Stabilize Shaky Footage
04:04 29CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts
00:46 30CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time
03:36 31CC 2019 Content Aware Fill
04:34 32CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates
09:24 33Quiz: Important After Effects Skills
34Intro to Motion Graphics Projects
00:53 35Clean Lower Third
09:22 36Logo Reveal Animation Bumper
13:25 37Colorful Transition
16:59 38Text with Mask Path Animation
10:05 39Text Bubble Animation
13:39 40Weather App 1
16:41 41Weather App 2
08:21 42Weather App 3
06:59 43Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects
44Flat Animation Challenge
02:47 45Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene
12:39 46Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect
15:02 47Removing Green Screen Background
06:46 48Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground
07:55 49Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
06:26 50Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect
06:07 51Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge
52Intro to 3D
10:04 53Swinging 3D Text Animation
12:11 54Build Out Your 3D Composition
05:47 55Animating Our 3D Scene
07:38 56Create Stars in After Effects
05:11 57Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)
58Using the Rotoscope Tool
06:55 59Cleaning Up Your Edges
07:21 60Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation
07:33 61Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool
62Easy Screen Replacement with Masks
09:56 63Replacing a Screen Version 2
13:49 64Screen Replacement with Mocha
08:13 65CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin
05:08 66Quiz: Rotoscoping
67Using the Puppet Pin Tool
04:33 68Animating Your Puppet Pins
03:04 69Animated Blinking Eyes
08:21 70Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds
07:10 71CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool
02:08 72Quiz: Screen Replacements
73Applying Text Animation Presets
05:59 74Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn
10:05 75Radial and Linear Wipes
03:20 76Color Correction in After Effects
03:33 77CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments
03:25 78Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations
79Motion Tracking Basics
09:51 80Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
06:21 81Tracking Rotation and Scale
11:33 82Adding Details to Our Text
04:04 83Quiz: Motion Tracking
84Intro to Character Animations
01:31 85Design Your Character
14:32 86Rigging Your Character
02:50 87Animating Our Character
09:55 88Adding the Animated Background
09:12 89Adding Details to Character Movement
07:20 90Adding the Paper Cut Out Look
05:29 91Quiz: Character Animations
92Exporting an H264 File from After Effects
07:03 93Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
04:03 94Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder
04:40 95CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder
02:14 96Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017
07:03 97Audio Tips for After Effects
03:20 98Working with Premiere Pro
05:54 99Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips
100Expressions Basics
07:24 101Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions
17:35 102Quiz: Expressions
103Conclusion
00:44 104Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds
let's add some clouds to give this more perspective. So first I'm going to turn off the enable motion blur so I can work through this a little bit faster. Then I'm going to create my clouds. Now this is one instance where I like using a solid layer and not a shape layer so that I can add some feathering to the edges of the cloud which you know clouds don't have sharp edges. So I want that feathering. So press command. Why bring up your solid settings, choose white unless you want a different color. And I'll just call this cloud one. Then take your shape tool. I'm going to use the lips tool and create your clouds. I'm just clicking a few times to create a few different circles like so Now I'm going to select all of these masks by shift clicking the top one press F. To bring up feathering and just increase the feathering to get that soft edge. Okay so there's a couple of different ways that we could animate this to make it look like the owl is flying in sort of that three D. Space. The e...
asiest is if I drop this down below the owl and then I just do a position and scale animation. So let me do that. So let me bring up P. For position and scale with S. And then set those first key frames and then press you to bring up those and let me actually just move it into the place. So with my selection tool I'm going to move it over here, that's the starting place and then at the very end of our composition, I'm going to drop this to like 50 and move it up and to the left. So now throughout this composition it looks kind of like the owl is flying away from the cloud. Right? Okay, so let's do this one more time. So let me command. Why get another cloud? Okay lips I'm just doing this really fast because you know how to do it and I don't want to waste your time selecting all the mass. Press F. To bring up bothering. All right, let me put this beneath our owl P. For position s. For scale you to bring up those key frames. Let's drag them to the front And then let's go to the end and we will put the scale. Let's just do like 60% which makes a little bit of a difference. And we'll move it up and just a little bit to the left. Alright, so that's pretty cool. Those clouds in the background. Let's add one more cloud that it will look like the owl is actually flying through the cloud. And we'll do that with a three D. Layer. So the same thing. Let's actually we can just duplicate this first cloud. Press command D. And then let's put it above our owl. Then press you on our keyboard and let's just click the stopwatch icon to delete all the key frames that are on this layer for both position and scale. Then turn on three D. Now with one key frame or just with position, we can create this animation. So let's bring the position forward. So with that Z. Space it's actually just bring it down just a little bit. And then with the Z. Space we're going to drag to the left and I'm holding shift down until it's off of the frame. Just like that. Set a key frame, move that to the beginning and now I'm going to again move that back just like so and what you'll notice is it's not going through our al. Why is that? That's because our AL isn't three D. Enabled either. So let me undo that Select are out and turn on three d. for the AL Now back to our cloud one. If I take the Z. space for the position and drag you'll see that once it reaches zero it goes through the clock. The owl, which is pretty darn cool. So we're gonna just do that like so maybe to like there maybe move it to the left a little bit. Now let's just see what this looks like. So it's going over there through kind of through the owl's wing. So now let's take this last key frame and move all the way to the right. Okay so let's play through this and see how it looks. It looks pretty cool but it kind of gets small and if it's that close to the how it should be a lot bigger, so we can just take this scale actually bring it up really big. But now when I play through this, the cloud kind of comes out of nowhere and it goes right through our wall and I want to move it to the left a little bit, but moving it to the left with the position key frames now we'll take a little bit of too much time and it's kind of hard to judge where it's going to be if I go here and move the position because remember I can't just go here and move the position to the left because then the cloud is going to do this kind of funky turn, which doesn't really make sense, but instead what I can use is the anchor point. So if I press am I keyboard, the anchor point is another way to move around a layer after you've set key frames for the position. Now with the anchor point I can just click and drag and move this this layer over to the right, right here at the start of the composition, maybe even a little bit more Alex. Pretty good. So it's going to fly through and it's still pretty large here on the screen but it doesn't fly right in front of us. So remember that you always have that anchor point as sort of your backup plan. If your animation starts to look a little funny with your position and you want to move things around now, I would make a few tweaks to this. I think the clouds in the background are moving a little too fast now compared to the this cloud in the front. So a quick way to fix that is let me just closed down all of our key frames by selecting all and then pressing S and then let's bring up the key frames for the white solid and the cloud with you. Now let me go forward to about one second set key frames for the position scale for both of these layers and then replace these ones at the end with those new ones I just created. So this is kind of just lengthening out the animation, making it a little bit slower for those clouds in the background. You see what I just did there. We had that whole animation that was kind of fast over five seconds. So I just expanded that first basically second of the animation which makes those clouds in the background move a little bit slower. Awesome. So this is the animated owl tutorial. I hope you enjoyed it. Let me know if you have any questions and we'll see you in another lesson
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