Screen Project 2: Research & Learning

Honestly, I lost count of the number of animation tutorials I watched. It took me a lot more time than expected because I followed too many YouTubers/artists. The list below consisted of the lessons and channel I consider worth bookmarking.

Animating With Ease in Adobe After Effects:
This course is very useful for understanding how the graphs in Adobe After Effects work. It is long and detailed so I only saw videos that focused on the function and relation of the speed and value graphs.

Animation for Illustration: Creating Layered GIFs with Photoshop & After Effects:
I learned how to organize layers and create timelines efficiently in Photoshop through this course. I was first really confused with the timeline animation function in Photoshop because many tutorials I watched rush through the layering and grouping parts. Thus, I am glad this course covered it. From my past experience with Premiere and Illustrator, I understand that being organized is extremely crucial to have a good workflow.

Ben Marriott:
I specifically watched many of Ben’s tutorials on how to create unique image textures and organize files After Effects properly. His videos are quick and fun, but they are definitely not practical tutorials for newbies like me. I was really stressed out when I tried following his videos because they skipped through a lot of basic steps, thus I constantly messed up with the fps, composition, and layering (this is the very bad animated clip I made out of stress). Now, I only watch Ben for a particular technique.

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I felt so accomplished every time I successfully applied a technique. I hope there will be many more moments of achievement leading to the project submission. My next goal will be finding visual references for Screen Project 2, whilst developing technical skills.