Join Rob Garrott for an in-depth discussion in this video Importing sketches into After Effects, part of Designing a Promo with Cinema 4D.
In this video, we are going to take the raw scans of the storyboard sketches and…cut them up into individual images using Photoshop.…We'll then import these images into our After Effects project along with…the audio file and we'll have all the pieces necessary to begin the animatic process.…Let's open up the first page of Animatic-Sketches inside of Photoshop.…Let me drag that on to the Photoshop icon.…What this is is an 8 1/2 by 11 page that I drew on with blue pencil.…I scanned it into a Photoshop at 300 dpi.…Now, I've got enough resolution to create the individual images that I need.…
What I want to do is crop each one of these guys down using the Crop tool.…I want to set the Crop tool to make them specifically the size that I want.…In this case, we are going to be doing 640 x 360.…So, if I click in the Width window, I go 640 px for pixels and 360 px for…pixels and then 72 dpi.…Now, that I've got the resolution set,…I can use the Crop tool to crop these images.…Now, the first image here we can ignore. That was a mis-start on my part.…
Author
Rob Garrott
Released
6/30/2010- Project planning, covering the scripting and initial drawings
- Using hand-drawn artwork in After Effects to time the animation
- Creating text and logo elements
- Animating the camera
- Organic modeling techniques
- Rigging models for animating
- Fine-tuning animation timing
- Adding realistic textures
- Lighting and shading techniques
- Rendering and compositing a finished animation
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 3s
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Using the exercise files1m 24s
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1. Planning a Project
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Creative brief1m 57s
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Sketches and script3m 8s
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2. Animatics: Timing Out an Animation
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Timing out the animation10m 4s
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3. Creating Cameramatic Elements for Rough Placement
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Creating a rough shark model12m 14s
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4. Cameramatics: Blocking in Rough Animation
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Animating the camera6m 8s
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Assembling the cameramatic8m 34s
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5. Modeling a Shark
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6. Rigging the Model for Animation
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7. Texturing the Model
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Texturing the eyes3m 51s
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Texturing the teeth and gums4m 24s
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8. Creating the Final Animation
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9. Lighting and Shading
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10. Rendering for After Effects
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Batch-rendering2m 12s
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11. Compositing in After Effects
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Conclusion
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Goodbye21s
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