Class Notes: 11.04.2010 [Week 10]

• Review using Cloud/smoke footage as masks
• build custom cloud mask transitions
• create a new comp of layered cloud footage
• make sure the footage builds up from an empty screen to full white
• fade on a white solid to compensate for any non-white areas
• use comp as luma matte to bring on assets in main comp
• Fake ink dissolve
• create a mask expanding
• apply "roughen edges" (Effects>Stylize)
• animate "scale" and/or "revolutions"
• apply/adjust blur at will
• Intro to 3d layer
• using x y z coordinates
• using multiple views and viewing directions
• positioning layers in z space
• using a camera
• camera keys and tools
• animating a camera vs animating layers