In this After Effects workshop, we will be creating a Kinetic Type 3D space animation. We drew and brought in a set of song lyrics. I've selected the chorus for Earned It which was sung by The Weeknd. I selected this song because it linked with my essay and it brings my own interest of music into this fun workshop. I've drawn it out so it looks handwritten. Here is the drawn image of the lyrics:
Opening the scanned version on to Illustrator, I used the image trace tool to change the threshold. This enabled the lyrics to look and become more darkened, which looks more digitalised. Then I pasted that edited version on to Photoshop which was set up on the right pixels, working on 1920 x 1080. I began to start breaking up each word into layers. This is crucial for this to work because our video would be going through each word, through space.
So after having each layers all split up, I started looking for a free copyright background which I've screenshot and attached below. I selected this scrunched up look because it would look cool having the lyrics come out and move around on the page.
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| Preview of background with lyrics |
After having all the components ready for this kinetic video, I saved my Photoshop as a PSD file and imported it into After Effects. After creating a new composition like in the previous tutorials, I placed all my layers and started to add animations to each layer.
Now the significant bit in this workshop is the use of camera in After Effects. Once I was happy with my text animations, I created this camera which enables us to control the direction the video is directing towards. After multiple editing time, Here is my final video below:
