Jim Krause | Classes | P354/J560 Program Graphics & Animation

Class Info:

Syllabus Fall 2024 (Word doc)
- Class meeting times: Tuesdays and Thursday from 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM (in-person in RTV 250)
- Instructor: Jim Krause
- Fall 2024 Office hours: Mondays 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Room 350 RTV Building or via Zoom) Just stop by or call (812) 332-1005 to schedule a Zoom appointment.
- Critique form (MS Word doc)
- Book: Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Fifth Edition: Essential and Advanced Techniques
Midterm Project
Final Project
- Real-world & Service Learning Clients (good topics for Midterm & Final Projects)

Class lab notes & assignments:

Week 1
- Burrows & Wood Reading
- Optimizing Your Home Editing Setup (video 4:30)
  - Instructional opening module by Elizabeth La Londe
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
- AE Apprentice 01 (Lynda/LinkedIn Learning - Tour of the User Interface Chris Meyer - 4 min)
- NOTE: IU Students have access to LinkedIN Learning. There are hundreds of lessons there on After Effects, Photoshop, and Graphic Design.
- Intro to AE and Workflow (Adobe - Ian Robinson 15 min)
Week 5
- How to Use the Graph Editor (Skillshare)
- A Guide to After Effects Masks (School of Motion)
Week 6
- animated typography ("Like, you know" poem)
- animated typography (based on Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels dialog)
- animated typography (Rugby Nation- warning graphic profanity!)
- animated typography (Ira Glass)
- Typography Tutorials:
  - kinetic typography tutorial w/Mikey
  - kinetic typography tutorial by Jesse Rosten
  - Write-on text effect using the stroke command (from Layers Magazine)
  - Write-on text using AE's write on effect
  - Graffiti write on tutorial (Using the stroke effect - Video Copilot)
Week 7
Week 8 - AE Quiz / Review Midterm Projects
Week 9
- How to Animate a Photo (Creators Project tutorial)
- Adobe AE User Guide (Adobe AE manual)
- Working in 3D Design Animation Space (Adobe help)
- Cameras, Lights and Points of Interest (Adobe help)
- Adobe AE Help: Extruding text and shape layers (Adobe help)
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
- AE Mocha tracking video tutorial (video from School of Motion 11 min)
- Evan Larimore - AE reel
- Mar Torrijos - Motion Graphics reel
- William Caballero - Motion graphics reel
Week 13 (Puppet Tool / Puppet Life)
- Beauty (9:49 - Classic paintings brought to life) A Short video by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro.
- You Gotta Believe (Music video sung by the Pointer Sisters, produced by Nina Paley.)
Week 14 (Puppet Tool II) + Shape Layer & the Repeater.
Week 15
- Tuesday - Final Quiz
- Thursday - No lab - Final Project work session
Week 16 - Final Project Review Thursday, December 19 from 10:20 AM - 12:20 PM. Please upload your projects to both Canvas and to our shared Google Drive folder:

The Fall 2024 P354/J560 Final Project Review time (assigned/scheduled by the registrar) is: 12:40-2:40 PM, Thurs., December 19.

Student Examples:

Art/Expression:

Promotional:

Informational:

Other Examples:

Crazy Enough title sequence

Miscellaneous resources

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