Exercise02

Final
media type="youtube" key="3yr-hTv5d5U" height="505" width="853" Since I won't be in class to present this today, I'll just give a quick overview of what I did to get this: The pieces of the titles are individual layers, each containing a copy of the full title which is masked to create interlocking pieces. Each of these layers is governed by an expression which gives it a random position and rotation. The position and rotation expressions for all the layers are linked to a single slider. This slider decides the range of the random expression; at 0, the layers are aligned and the further the slider is from 0, the further the pieces can potentially go/rotate. The slider can be animated, thus the titles can come together and fly apart over time (this animation took a lot of tweaking until I found a speed I liked). I placed the titles perpendicular to each other with one higher than the other. Then I animated a camera to travel from one title to the next (which was the only way I could think of transitioning between them without having them just fade in and out - but the camera movement really adds to it so I'm happy with that decision). The a high aperture in the depth of field option on the camera is what blurs the closest bits of title. When the titles are whole, they are stationary; I used the camera's movement to give some life to the titles (Trial4 bellow shows what it looked like before I did this). To end the video, I masked a new solid to feather the edges, then animated it to move in front of the camera; this was meant to look like one of the pieces just got in the way and stayed there. I added a slight grey-to-white ramp for the background and kept it as a 2D layer so it stayed in place. And that's pretty much it!

Week01
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Week02
-I wanted to make a smoke title for my 'air' movie so I tried this effect out media type="youtube" key="STDWKzB65cA" height="385" width="480"

Going through some video copilot tutorials, I came up with these: media type="youtube" key="Q29yqbuThW8" height="295" width="480"

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Eventually I decided what I actually wanted to do so here's a couple process vids from when I was trying to get the timing and camera motion just right: media type="youtube" key="6RJoAz5aqhc" height="295" width="480"

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