Daniel Sosanya
Fall 2020
Blog Post 11
After Effects Intern assistance
Today I received an email. At first I thought it was my boss Lisa but no it was her intern Eli. Eli is a student who goes to city tech also who is participating within the internship program at Brooklyn College. Eli emailed me because he was concerned about the internship assignment that Lisa had given to him. It turn out the assignment that he was concerned about was the animation assignment Lisa had given to me. I’m guessing Lisa assigned the assignment to multiple students, so that she can pick the best one of her liking. Eli was concerned because he was unaware how to use AfterEffects. I explained to him how I recently learned how to use the program myself. He wanted my help, he stated how Lisa shows him. My animation said she wanted something along the line of this. He wanted me to explain to him the basis of AfterEffects so that for that project and future projects will become an ease to him. Eli has eventually called me and we must have been on the phone for an hour or two before he understood the basis of the program. I had to explain to him how programs like AfterEffects mostly operate off of key frames. I’m not a god when it comes to the program but I get things done. A Keyframe is used to set parameters for motion, effects, audio, and many other properties, usually changing them over time. A keyframe marks the point in time where you specify a value for a layer property, such as spatial position, opacity, or audio volume.
I had to explain how to control other things such as the tool in the tool panel and the properties settings. Most of all the opacity (His plan for his animation mostly involved the manipulation of the opacity. Other major things that to be explained is how to work the duration for each frame. Each image is placed on its own layer and the user must set the duration of each layer. I explained to him how mine came up to about a minute long so you must really plan each frame being used because you don’t want the animation to be long. AfterEffects is very tedious to use a little thing you do can change the outcome so you have to be careful. I explained how to apply text to within an animation although it was still. Lisa asked for a simple animation so I didn’t think I needed to take it any further and teach him text animation when she wanted something simple. Most people would have a hard time understanding me especially for being on the phone for a long time, but I seem to work well with Eli. He took his time and asked questions when he felt needed. I explained every aspect I probably can but Eli called me back twenty minutes later and I forgot something. The most important thing of all, how to save the work. I felt so slow, how could I forget that. I explained to him the process of rendering and now it incorporates everything so that it can play back in real time. The rendering time took a lot for him but that’s how it goes it the world of animation/video
