Adding the Paper Cut Out Look
Philip Ebiner
Lessons
Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates
06:22 2Understand the After Effects Workspace
05:39 3Starting a New Composition
08:15 4CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage
01:55 5Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline
05:08 6Using the Basic After Effects Tools
10:20Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors
03:04 8Working in the Timeline
10:59 9Layer Properties
08:57 10Quiz: After Effects Basics
11Animating in After Effects
07:35 12Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations
05:17 13Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral
04:21 14Using the Graph Editor
05:32 15Challenge - Bouncing Ball
01:01 16Solution - Bouncing Ball
13:00 17Quiz: Animating with Keyframes
18Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects
07:07 19Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths
06:24 20Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients
03:44 21Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag
05:54 22Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers
23Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear
08:37 24Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers
05:34 25Easily Reverse Complicated Animations
02:14 26Playing with Time
05:54 27Blend Modes
06:05 28Stabilize Shaky Footage
04:04 29CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts
00:46 30CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time
03:36 31CC 2019 Content Aware Fill
03:55 32CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates
08:37 33Quiz: Important After Effects Skills
34Intro to Motion Graphics Projects
00:53 35Clean Lower Third
09:22 36Logo Reveal Animation Bumper
13:25 37Colorful Transition
16:59 38Text with Mask Path Animation
10:05 39Text Bubble Animation
13:39 40Weather App 1
16:41 41Weather App 2
08:21 42Weather App 3
06:59 43Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects
44Flat Animation Challenge
02:47 45Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene
01:23 46Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect
15:02 47Removing Green Screen Background
06:46 48Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground
07:55 49Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
06:26 50Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect
06:07 51Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge
52Intro to 3D
10:04 53Swinging 3D Text Animation
12:11 54Build Out Your 3D Composition
05:47 55Animating Our 3D Scene
07:38 56Create Stars in After Effects
05:11 57Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)
58Using the Rotoscope Tool
06:55 59Cleaning Up Your Edges
07:21 60Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation
07:33 61Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool
62Easy Screen Replacement with Masks
09:56 63Replacing a Screen Version 2
13:49 64Screen Replacement with Mocha
07:13 65CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin
05:08 66Quiz: Rotoscoping
67Using the Puppet Pin Tool
04:33 68Animating Your Puppet Pins
03:04 69Animated Blinking Eyes
08:21 70Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds
07:10 71CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool
02:08 72Quiz: Screen Replacements
73Applying Text Animation Presets
05:59 74Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn
10:05 75Radial and Linear Wipes
03:20 76Color Correction in After Effects
03:33 77CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments
03:25 78Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations
79Motion Tracking Basics
09:51 80Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
06:21 81Tracking Rotation and Scale
11:33 82Adding Details to Our Text
04:04 83Quiz: Motion Tracking
84Intro to Character Animations
01:31 85Design Your Character
14:32 86Rigging Your Character
02:50 87Animating Our Character
09:55 88Adding the Animated Background
09:12 89Adding Details to Character Movement
06:46 90Adding the Paper Cut Out Look
05:29 91Quiz: Character Animations
92Exporting an H264 File from After Effects
07:03 93Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
04:03 94Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder
04:40 95CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder
02:14 96Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017
07:03 97Audio Tips for After Effects
02:19 98Working with Premiere Pro
05:54 99Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips
100Expressions Basics
07:24 101Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions
17:35 102Quiz: Expressions
103Conclusion
00:44 104Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Adding the Paper Cut Out Look
sometimes when creating these little animations, I like to add a little texture to everything. So one thing I'll do is add a sort of construction paper texture. So within the graphics folder there is this red paper and paper texture. So import those. If you're not using our project file. And what I basically do is just take this paper texture, I'll put it over everything and then I'll change the blend mode until it's something that I think looks good. Usually it's something like multiply. Like that color burn can look cool. It can be a little intense depending on the color of the paper to. It might change. But for me I'm just gonna do a multiply. That's kind of cool. But it looks like the texture is just like overlaid on everything which it is which is kind of cool. But what if I want to add this texture kind of a separate look to our character itself to make him pop out from the background a little bit more. Well I can go into my hero composition, Add that texture or maybe a different...
one. Playing with the size of these images will also change how the texture appears. Now what you'll notice though is if I change this to multiply for example we still see the background of this paper and it's a little intense So I can drop the opacity which helps. But when I go back to my main video, I have this red composition which looks so funky. I don't want that. I want the layer our texture to just apply to where our superhero is. How are we going to do that with track mats. So what we need to do is actually create another pre composition of our superhero. So select all of our superhero Pre compose it, command shift. C. I'll call this hero for texture. Now with our red texture let me just bring up the opacity. So we see it a little bit better. If I put this down below our hero texture, take the track matte and change it to alpha matte. Hero. What you see is we just now have this red textured version of our hero. So what I want to do now is duplicate our hero for texture layer. Put this beneath our red paper texture. Make sure I turn it on and then now I can play with the settings of this paper texture itself. So maybe I drop the opacity something like so. Or maybe I replace it with the paper texture. No I haven't taught you this cool trick yet I don't think. But to quickly replace any layer with any asset up here in your project file, click that layer with it selected. Make sure you have the layer selected that you want to replace in your timeline. Then take your asset from your project folder an option, drag it onto the layer down here and you'll see what happens is it automatically replaces it. So now let me bring up the opacity. Play with the size. Let me make it like so And now if I go back to our hero practice or our full comp. Now the texture for a superhero is just a little bit different than the texture for our other com. Now I noticed that when he brings his hands up, the texture doesn't apply. So let me make sure that this texture maybe if I rotate it around like so you'll notice it's hard for you to see. I know, but if I put it normal and then I rotate it to make sure it's covering the whole thing. And then let's change the blend mode to multiply. Like it was cool. So that adds a separate layer of texture to our superhero itself. If you really want to make our superhero stick out just right click the superhero here and add a drop shadow layer style to the superhero. It creates that sort of construction paper cutout look. Which is kind of cool. And you can even do that for all of our layers. So I can copy this. Drop shadow, copy it mm hmm added to all of our other layers, selecting all of them and then pasting. So now we have this sort of construction paper cutout look. Which is a cool sort of style too cool. So that's a little bit about playing with textures to give your designs a little bit more sort of more sort of pizzas. So if you have any questions about this or anything. I went over in this section, please let me know. I would love to see your character animations, so please save them. Save them as an animated gif if you want or Jeff or movie file, which I show you how to do in this class and then upload them to the class. Post them online, share them on social media, and make sure to tag me in there at video school online and at Phil Brenner. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in another lesson.
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