After Effects Apprentice 07: Parenting with Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer

MOV + Exercise Files | Duration: 1h 39min | 960x600 | Video: 30 fps 619 kbps | Audio: AAC 44KHz 122 kbps 2 stereo | 958 MB

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

Parenting is a way to group multiple layers within the same composition inside After Effects. In this course, Chris Meyer shows how to set up a parenting chain, discusses what makes a good parent, and demonstrates several techniques using parenting, such as creating a title animation with a minimal number of keyframes, building a geometric construct, and bringing an anthropomorphic robot arm to life. Sidebar topics include avoiding a scaling gotcha with parenting and creating abstract backgrounds using the Fractal Noise effect.

Topics include:

• Preparing files

• Making parenting connections

• Arranging the frame and arm

• Using null objects

• Crafting anthropomorphic-style animations

• Avoiding problems with non-uniform scaling

• Animating Fractal Noise