Motion Design Lab 13 12/01/2021

1. fine tuning animations
2. keeping motion ideas consistent
3. adding extra touches- light leaks and lens flares
4. adding in music- viewing audio waves in After Effects
5. how to render and compress when After Effects is buggy - After Effects 2022 render issues
6. fixing hard edges of textures using masks and feathering to create seamless textures over your art work
7. using alpha mattes to mask textures to fit inside your artwork
8. using blending modes to add interest to your artwork
9. putting the image, jpeg texture inside the precomp that has puppet pinning applied to it, so the image distorts along with the puppet pins
10. trouble shooting your ideas
11. using math functions in After Effects to quickly make wide comps to place inside to fake camera motion, making the background of your scene scroll by horizontally
12. creating precomps from multiple layers to simplify your animation workflow
13. how to separate dimensions on Position stop watch to add an expression to only one axis - in this example Y axis to randomly make layer bob up and down as it moves sideways across the screen
14. relinking missing art in After Effects- how to chose a layer from an Illustrator file that has a missing link to the art
15. Adding an adjustment layer and adding an effect to it, the effect will apply to every layer below the adjustment layer
16. Using Camera lens blur, and creating a gradient ramp layer to use as a Blur Map for that effect
17. adjusting where layers start and end to get your best animation possible as quickly as possible
18. adjusting gradient ramps
19. click on Repeat Edge pixels when using blur effects so they go all the way to the edge of the screen for best possible result
20. How to Purge Memory and disc cache to free us space on your computer
21. using reference art and images to get the best possible look for yoru motion design
22. Set your layer anchor points where you want the motion to originate from for best results
23. parenting texture to shape layers (Alpha Mattes) so that the texture moves and rotates along with the shape mattes
24. using more layers gives you more flexibility as an animator, breaking things down into multiple shapes to give life to each piece
25. color correcting and color grading images in After Effects, using Curves effect
26. using video ink reveals as Luma invert mattes