This week we created animations using Adobe After Effects and assembled our project in Adobe aero. Our project took a strong pivot from our initial brainstorming, leaning more towards Nakyung’s original magic door idea. We decided the door would act as a portal to different worlds, and divided up the work so that we’d complete two animations of these worlds each.
My ideas were a portal to Antartica to hang out with some penguins and a portal to outer space. I played around with simple keyframe animations in After Effects, and also played around with Aero’s rudimentary but intuitive actions such as tapping, rotating, orbiting, and more.
Overall, this was a fun foray into two softwares I had never used before. Between the two programs, I thought After Effects tended to be too complicated and Aero too basic. Sharing an aero project file between me and Nakyung turned out to be impossible, which I thought was the biggest drawback in a partner-designed project. Nevertheless, I had fun playing around in AR and I thought Nakyung’s animations turned out to be really cute and unique! Learning about the principles of animation was also very useful, and I hope to apply them in my future work.