Adobe Software and Animation Methods
- Premiere Notes
- Establishing a project folder and Premiere project
- Importing images, including:
- An image sequence
- Still images
- To change the duration of still images before you import them
- To change the duration of images and movies in the Timeline
- To add a colour matte to the Project Window
- Quick Playback, the “J-K-L” keys
- To tap a beat and identify the tempo in the Timeline
- To scale footage, including:
- By hand
- Using the Motion Effects Controls
- Adjusting the Levels to make tonal changes
- Colour correction
- Applying a colour key
- Using keyframes
- To export QuickTime movies
- Audio Editing:
- After Effects Notes
- To start a project and composition
- Importing Images: Stills & Sequences
- To Interpret Footage and Make Cycles
- Notes on Keyframes
- More on Keyframes and the Graph Editor
- Using the Render Queue
- Notes on the Matte / Stencil method
- To make a mask
- Colour key
- Notes on compositions for panning backgrounds
- Notes on 3D layers
- Digital cutout animation
- Camera moves
- Creating transitions between scenes
- Time stretch and remapping
- Photoshop, Image Editing, and Animation Production
- Animation with Photoshop
- A simple way to render animation drawings and make digital cels
- A complex way to render animation drawings and make digital cels
- To export image sequences and QuickTime movies
- Flash Notes
- Using Photoshop to prepare images for digital cutout animation
- Working with bitmap images, including:
- Importing images
- Breaking them apart
- Converting bitmaps to vectors
- To export image sequences and QuickTime movies
- To create straight-ahead drawn animation
- Symbols
- Bones Tool and armatures for 2D cut-out puppets
Sound Design
- Sound Effects Sources for Your Animation Projects
- Using the Sound Effects Server in Room 288b
- Creative Commons Sound and Music Sources: