After Effects Masking Animation

Created by Brandon Woodard

This is the second project I did for a summer course on After Effects. Our instructions were to use masking and track mattes in After Effects to animate something being "created." I chose to use the birth of a tree! Enjoy it! Again, no 3D or effects could be used. The "camera movement" was done by adjusting the scale and position of the image.

Made using Adobe After Effects in one evening.

Category:

Film & Animation

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[gimmicka]

Hi, was it done in PS with layer masks to create each frame as a png before exporting to AE?

Must of taken a good while?

[24YOBAW]

Basically how the procedure went. It was pretty rewarding though.

[b0mbass142003]

cool

is there a tutorial?

[24YOBAW]

Nope, no tutorial, sorry. It just takes lots of patience and a little knowledge of After Effects and Photoshop.

[MrJustasR]

And its super easy so do... Just use write on effect and brush whole thing.

[AjouterRose]

i hve a quick question as well, say i hve an animated clip and i wanted to mask a character walking out of the scene.

is there anyway to remove the anchors each individual frame without hvng to drage them all bak into place when there's movement? meaning say its left foot is up then its right, is there anyway to just delete the points made from the l. foot frame so i can just start over masking the right foot frame w.o creating a new mask

[24YOBAW]

@Flashinglights007 Well there's a couple of things going on there. I'm sure you'd probably have to incorporate some 3D elements (such as the door flying off) and then you'd have to composite the fire and debris and all of that other stuff. You'd probably use elements of masking, but that's just one small component of the overall thing.

[gimmicka]

nice work, would have driven me fuckin mental though LOL