2016
Lynda
Eran Stern
2:11
English

Get a glimpse behind the scenes of a real-world commercial made with After Effects. This course is for artists who are familiar with After Effects and want to better understand advanced techniques, design concepts, and approaches to complex projects.
The featured product is the N-trig pen, a digital pen that "draws the line from idea to technology." You will reverse engineer the finished project to understand the practical steps and creative decisions the filmmakers made along the way.
Eran Stern shows how to decode a client brief, present design concepts for signoff, create previsualizations and animatics, and then transition the design to After Effects. Many of the effects, such as dust layers, streaks of light, and geometric lines, are achieved using some of Eran's favorite third-party plugins (Particular, Form, and Plexus). The lessons are full of practical examples for broadcast television as well as online distribution. Along the way, Eran weaves in tips, shortcuts, and professional techniques that will amaze both veteran After Effects users and new motion graphics artists.

Introduction
Welcome
What you should know before watching this course
1. Concept and Design
What is a digital pen?
Analyzing the client brief
Deciding on the artistic direction
Presenting to the client
Exploring previsualization and animatics
2. Transition from Ink to Paper
Integrating 3D renders with After Effects
Blue-print design comes to life
Animating lines with Auto-trace
Intro to Particular
Creating dust layers with Particular
Walk-through of the final scene
3. Transition from Paper to Digital
Fancy particles transition
Creating streaks of lights using Particular
Adding depth of field using z-depth pass
4. Form a Digital Pen
Intro to Form
DNA chain using Form
Intro to Plexus
Adding geometric lines with Plexus
HUDs and Scribble additions
Conclusion
Wrap-up

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