Tips In After Effects

The standard workspace.

I created a workspace that would make using the program easier for me.

I then created a composition and imported a file.

I then imported a picture and used the hue/saturation effect to to change the colour throughout the clip using the  colorize option. I also used the curves and exposure effect to give the image some depth in colour.

Final Outcome

First of I imported a picture into my composition and resized it and created a fade in and fade out effect using the opacity transformation.

I then added text to the composition applying the same opacity transformation and adding a rotation to  it at the beginning and end of composition.

I added a arrow movie scene which was created using masks in a different project and turned one of them into a 3D Layer and rotated to look as though it was coming over the middle text. Then finally I added it to render queue and saved it as a .mp4 for a small file size.

Final Outcome

First of all I created a black solid layer and added the lens flare effect.

I then changed the type of lens flare and added a text layer putting  a rectangle mask over it changing the  mask type to subtract.

I then added the keyframed path of the lens flare and the brightness to swoosh around the text. I also keyframed the mask so it would move off the text as the flare travelled over it.

Final Outcome

Variation

First of all I took a picture from Google of the assassins creed character and imported it to Photoshop deleted it as a background and saved it as a .tif file and imported to after effects. I then used the puppet pin tool and marked the joints in the body of the character so I was able to move the character around.

I then realised the assassins creed character wasn't good enough of animate to manipulate and move around as both of it legs weren't fully showing and the character was becoming warped, so I took a picture of Toad from Mario because it was easier to do the animation with and wouldn't as warped so I used the same technique to create a short animation to experiment in after effects.

Final Outcome:

In this I drew my own character in Photoshop and used the puppet tool to manipulate it just as I did with the toad image in the example above.

Evidence of character drawing.

Camera Animation:

First of all I made a Composition with a flower background, and then made another with a picture of what I wanted to be in the animation.

I then put my other composition in the main composition and duplicated it 4 times, positioning them as I wanted it to be, by using the 3D Layer function. 

I then changed each of the pictures to something different and used the camera to zoom in through the images to make them look as though they're flying past the camera.

Final Outcome:

Variation: