Toddler Steps?

From the first class until last week, Mr.Kim Boon always do the tutorial with us step by step. Starting today, he would like to try something different. He would give us the link to study and will ask us to do certain things in After Effect. So instead of just spoon feeding us, we finally have to practice individually and create our final outcome (of the video). He also mentioned that starting next week, we will start learning to implement the AE on live action videos.

I started on the butterfly since it is the main object. Parent the wings to the body, I start to animated the flapping wings first before doing the moving butterfly.

When I'm done, I make a path for the butterfly and change it's rotation to match the flying way of a butterfly.

Added the text in it.

Next, making the background in a different composition. Here we are free to do how we like as it's not the main objective of this exercise. So I just duplicate the flower pattern shape to create a better contrast of it and the other background.

Lastly, I add the butterfly changed into a different color by duplicate the butterfly composition and make it into a ramp. From there, I just adjust the mask and mode to get to the right one that I prefer.

the butterfly after 'transformed'

The final outcome. I know the butterfly flapping is a little bit off. Excuse me for that.

The original video. Since we are free to change a few things, it doesn't 

Bussiness card shatter tutorial

We learned to do a rainbow light on a card as the card shatter into pieces.

Firstly, we created four composition; card, rainbow, ramp and main. In the ramp, we just apply ramp to it. From the main, we added the card and the ramp in. 

So, depending where is the white of the ramp, the shatter shall begin there.

After we added the shatter effect of the card, we were told to play around with it. And so I change a few attribute and play about the given choice to it. 

And here is the rainbow composition. We added a ramp (first - if not it wouldn't work) and add in colorama. This gives it a rainbow color effect, just like the image below.

When all is done, the three component; ramp, rainbow and the card is added into the main comp. From there, it is edited to make the rainbow "transformed" the card into shattered pieces.

Final outcome

Final outcome reverse

From the final outcome, we copy its composition and enable time remapping. From here, we just swap the time's keyframe and viola! It's in reverse.