Welcome to the world of compositing where you will learn the the concepts & techniques of digital image manipulation and how you can use those to create visual effects

 

Starting out with some technical VFX exercises to learn our first steps in Adobe After Effects, we then progress to learning more about camera, cinematography & design to finish with creating a credit sequence for a fictional movie or documentary using 2.5D parallax techniques

 

Topics include:

- Photoshop & basic selection tools

- Introduction to After Effects

- Color correction tools & techniques

- Basic 2D tracking

- Rotoscoping techniques for selecting moving elements over time

- Planar tracking with Mocha

- Camera & Cinematography

- 2.5D Parallax

- Design Principles & Typography

 

Software used: Adobe Creative Cloud

Lecturer: jasper.janssens@howest.be