Tuesday, October 1st

Class hours: 10:05 – 2:45
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org

*Bolton Valley Parking Lot – October 6th, 2021 – photo Mr. Bohmann*

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Friday – If you want lunch after college on Friday order some lunch

Friday, Oct. 4 EHS will have an abbreviated schedule due to the Pep rally 1:10-2:10. Any EHS students who wish to attend the pep rally should go directly after we get off the bus from CCV. The pep rally ends at 2:10pm, and EHS Block 7-8 starts at 2:15.

LTA Photography Assignment – Let’s revisit the deliverables

10:10 After Effects Intro – Animating a Logo using Illustrator Files

This morning we are going to see the power of Adobe across programs. We’ll begin by working together on a logo animation. The practice will give you enough tools to consider how you will / want to animate your very own logo.

Important: All items of your logo that you want to animate need to be on their own top level layer in Illustrator!

I’ll repeat that: All items of your logo that you want to animate need to be on their own top level layer in Illustrator!

Let’s look at an Illustrator Logo and Layers together with this sample

Link to instructions in case you get lost. Make a copy for your files – Pro Tip!

Next you will begin working on your logo animation. In preparation, you will want to consider which areas of your logo need to be on their own top level layer in Illustrator. We’ll do one more practice with moving groups to layers using a robot file found in public folders.

Collect in new layer will be a tool (menu option) we’ll be using in Illustrator as well as the Release to Layers command which redistributes all the items in a layer into individual layers.

10:50 Break

11:00 English with Mx. Yopp

11:50 – 12:25 Animated Personal Logo Assignment

You have a big choice…. Which logo to choose?

The best way to tackle this project is to begin by looking at your .ai file. You can apply animations to individual layers, but first you need to make sure that the items you want to animate are on their own top level layer.

Once you have all the layers you want to animate on their own layer, save your file.

Open AE and choose import file (before importing, choose make composition retain layer sizes)
Drag AI files into your timeline area and select them all
Go to Layer Menu, choose Create / Create Shapes from Vector Layers
Begin animating

Animating your logo is a entirely creative process. You can have more than one version if you like.
Duration: 5 seconds max
Filename: AnimatedLogo_Lastname.mp4
Save both the AE file, your AI file and your .mp4 in your Google Drive.

This project is due Wednesday, October 9th, Google Classroom Dropbox.
Drop in the .mp4 only.