I found this really good website with so many creative 3D fonts and I liked them all but here are the ones that relate the most to my project in a way that I can imagine each one of the illstration moving to get into this form. For example this Helvetica one could of fallen randomly like this and maybe hold and then all the letters collapse onto the floor.


This image reminded my alot of Kinetic typography videos that I have been looking at. however eventhough it is entertaining to watch, I dont really like this style of work because there are just so many videos so similar and once youve seen a few, you seen them all.




If I had the word 'explode' or 'shatter' then this would be a great effect to use in After Effects but the nearest word I have is 'POP' and it isnt really relevant but i think it is a real nice effect.




I really do like this kind of type, i can use it for the word 'compress' as the letters are in parts and i could bring the letters together.

POP........I tried to get a bubble typeface for the word pop as it is someting thats 'pops' however it is the 1st thing that comes to mind when I think 'pop' so it could end up to be too obviouss.

POP

-big

-blow up

-balloon

-jump

COMPRESS

-tight squeeze

-no spaces

COLIDE

-crash

-techtonic plates

-head on collision

Blade Runner Kinetic Type from Mikael Quick on Vimeo.

Garamond? from Murat Pak on Vimeo.

WHO KILLED THE MUSIC? from Sebastian Lange on Vimeo.

Thinking Particles Experiment Sep2009 from AKITOSHI mizutani on Vimeo.

Get layers to After Effects, File> import. Imprt As>footage (if file is flattened) Composition (if there are layers)

Then when you have this, drag composition onto workspace.

Working in Illustrator

Similar set up if working in Illustrator, but must choose pixels and work in layers like photoshop. Also when saving it can be saved in the illustrator format.

Working in Photoshop..........

Preseps>film & Video

When using text it is very important that stay within the blue lines. Or anything important, dont work on the outsides of the blue lines because it could be cropped off depending on the type of player it is viewed on.

It is possible to use photoshop layers in After Effects as seperate layers. But if im doing this then I need to save photoshop in PSD format or maybe TIFF.

AFTER EFFECTS

P = show position
A = anchor point
R = rotation
S = scale
T = oppacity
O = out point of current layerI = in point of current layer

B = beginning of work area
N = end of work

U = reveal all animated propertiesUU=reveal all modified properties

-When the green bar is up it represents real time.
-The red bar at the bottom you can change the size of it to show how long you want the image to be playing for.
-Everything used becomes a layer which makes it very similar to photoshop. Layer>new>....
Still images/solid images last for the whole length of the video

-If I accedently close a tab then I need to go to Workspace>reset standard.
-After effects must have at least 1 compositio. Composition>new composition.
-Pal is UK and NTSC is for America. Pal is 25 frames per secon and NTSC is 29 frames per second
-Exporting from after effect you need to... Composition>add to render que>