Flower Animation

I watched chapter 8, this chapter is all about animating the three layers together and timing them the way you want. It is a difficult one but I made it through. You have to animate something from each layer and put them together at the end to have the perfect flower . Please let me know if you have any questions.

Tips :
Be patient.
The stem is hard to do, just use the pen and make three points up without anything showing , then put a stroke.
Do not waste much time on drawing skills
Good Luck !!

                                                   Here is my final result

Repeater

I'm at chapter 7 now.  In this chapter you will learn  ways to make a flower, using a repeater and without a repeater.  I followed what he did step by step. Be careful to follow exactly what he is doing and put the same values he is putting if you are a beginner and you will have the same results.  This will make you discover more what you can do with a shape layer.  I did create the stem , feel free to create it as well.  Plus you can try to animate the flower if you like. This will be extra work .

Transform button

Now I began Chapter 6 and it also explains more about the shape layers and what is the function of the transform button. It is a really easy chapter so I hope you will understand it ! It gives you a detailed explanation of how to manipulate shape layers and animate them either individually or together. Take notes , if you have any questions I'm here

Congratulations , you have made it so far!!

If you managed to keep up with me and finish all the tutorials so far I can tell you that you are on your way to success ! Now I will give you a little exercise to practice what you have learned.

Instruction : make a see saw out of shape layers , a rectangle go down on the wood and the ball go up as soon as the rectangle hit the wood . I will put you a picture to have an idea about what I'm talking about

Tips : use all shape layers so you can animate them

     If you are facing any problem I'm always available for you questions

Shape layer Vs Solid layer

After watching these 6 minutes of shape layers video you can start with this video. I have 42 chapters of tutorials on my pc.  Each chapter have their own exercises. Anyway Chapter 1 2 4 are nothing so I will started with Chapter 3 and 5 and this will be your forth projects. file project 4. You don't need assets for this one. I will the 2 chapters for you. Every time I finish a chapter i will upload it. I sometimes don't finish the whole tutorial but I will get back to it later on.  Chapter 3 explain 6 major terms used in after effects :  Composition, Layers , Animation , Effects , 3D, Randoring. Take notes ! Chapter 5 explains the difference between solid and layer and explain further how shape layers work.

PS : if you don't understand a word : Just search for it!

Shape Layers

After you finish the step of animating an orange and throwing it from the table, I watched a youtube video about shape layers. I haven't finished the whole video yet but I have watched only 6 minutes of it because believe me you will need it for later.  Please do watch 6 minutes of it and remember to take notes and work on the software at the same time. Save your project as usual and this will be your project 3 file and save it in ae composition file. I think no assets are required for this tutorial.  Now you have 3 tutorial videos to save in a file called tutorials: tutorial 1 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tR3fpv4Aco      Tutorial 2:  Jeff Foster animating the orange         

Tutorial 3 : Shape layers : here is the link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U29Mj9d_rL0&index=5&list=PL9rnDcgHTOxiLPjJRbzO5GOzcahqZW19-

 ( with this video - shape layers- you will learn how to create a shape layer, change its color , you will know what a stroke is and how to animate it)

Animating the orange

The video of jeff foster is one hour and a half. You need 10 minutes from it to work on  animating the orange. Since the video is on my pc not online , I had to upload each minute alone ! Sorry . Watch it and take notes and if you have any questions , I'm always available 24/7. Everything I'm learning I will be posting here. 

 You can join me step by step in the learning process. I will upload all the parts I will be watching from this video later on.