Week 8A

In class I started to work in After Effects and have about two and a half seconds done. I had to go back into illustrator and fix a few of the vectorized shapes because they weren't in separate layers when I brought them into AE. I needed them in separate layers so I can animate them. The largest change was the second earring went from a few layers to about 53 layers which took a while to fix.

Once I brought it into AE none of the bottom circles or lines were in the right place. So in the screenshot above is the original grouped earring. I placed the hoop part on top and the clump on the right is all the lines and circles that need to be separated and placed correctly.

Once this was done I created a precomp for all of it and started to animated the circles/gems swaying. At first it wasn't working because it was timed wrong in the precomp.

So above is the incorrect render in mid class. The gems do not move when they should, they do 2 seconds later.

After that render I was able to animate 3 and a half columns of gems and below is what I completed during class.