Week 6b

Today in class we got the go-ahead on animating. Since I wasn't really sure how to do the drawing effect I wanted in Adobe After Effects, I looked up a tutorial. This tutorial taught me how to do exactly what I wanted using the brush tool. Basically all I had to do was take the brush and draw in 1 stroke how I wanted it to animate. The effect looks convincing and was much easier than I expected to do. Since I used this method, I am also able to easily change the color of the lines in my original image. So, I just added in keyframes to have the color fade from gray to black. Professor Pannafino taught me how to use a mask to have my words fade in. I am essentially over halfway done at this point, so from here it will just be adding finishing touches.