This is me making a simple animation of an opacity change – fading it up and down on adobe after effects.
Moving on, this is me making an animtion of a elipse moving from A-B one side of the screen to the next.
Then having an animation where the keyframes fill colours for some shapes on the screen, though I decided to remove others from two of the shapes in contrast.
In relation to my understanding of colour, I chose specific contrasting type colours in the last part of the animation, and in the first two I used the full red colour as discussed in the previous tasks.
As I found out, vector files are sometimes not treated kindly on after effects, with you needing to put the setting on to continuously raster the file. This is a problem if you have slow processing speeds. As it infinitely slows down the reaction speed of your computer with it lagging greatly when preforming simple after effects tasks while also trying to maintain the smoothness you want.
This however had no effect on this animation as I used the shapes provided. My bit depth for this computer would be very high, as it has a 120 hz refresh rate. This determines the smoothness of the animation displayed as well, and it was displayed crisply to me on my laptop.
And for the screen resolution, my screen on this laptop has a 1920-1080p screen resolution. So it would be displayed in HD quality, and I in turn put the resolution for my animation to be 1920-1080p so it is HD.
In another animation I was doing, I found the anti aliasing effect to come into effect. As with it I was getting very frustrated, as the image kept looking the way the “stairs effect” was described, so I made some adjustments and it ended up looking alright, even adding the continuous rasterizing onto it.
With screen location, I assumed it was where the video was being played from. So viewing it on another device, like an iphone or a TV, shows that the quality hasn’t degraded in any way or really altered. It works well when being played back from them.
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