I won't usually put in video editing stuff, as it tends to be straightforward. However today was a bit of playing around with fonts for the intro along with some subtle music syncing to a short clip.
...or is it? I've been busier with After Effects now that I've officially begun helping with the VFX side of the film I referenced in the last post. For that I've signed an NDA so the actual projects and experiments I'm working on right now for it I'm not sharing here.
What I can share are some of tutorials I'm working through to learn my way around certain effects which I've been modifying to suit the desired style—currently working on titles.
With that, here's project 5, following on Video Co-pilot disintegration tutorial.
Project 5
Time to complete: ~2 hours
(Note: in this case the above demo is for a simplified version of the final tutorial effect. There were a bunch of further steps to add particles, smoke, and green screen compositing that I didn't wrap up).
The escalating complexity of a project like this is amazing. The final composition for the video there had approximately 12 layers, with many of those containing pre-compositions with even more layers inside them. For the effect I'm actually creating for titles right now there are around 20 layers at least, and that's without creating a title fade effect yet, which will likely double that.
I'm gaining massive respect for professional visual effects artists through all of this, and I've barely scratched the surface of what's possible with After Effects...let alone programs like Cinema 4D or Nuke.
In a couple months I'll be able to show the real results of the team's collective efforts on the film. ;)