Project Complete

Here is the project description I included with my final hand-in.

DIS2105 Assignment #03
Ethan Morley 23385928

For my motion graphics assignment, I created a kinetic style animation with using vector images and “camera” movement. To link to the quote of “design is thinking made visual” by Saul Bass, I took a fairly literal approach in terms of the narrative behind the animation. The story starts with a blueprint/design of a product on a piece of paper (the thought/idea), then it zooms in and an animation of the process of building the product within a factory will happen on the screen (made visual).
All the images are vectors created in illustrator and then imported for ease of animation with many different effects and transitional animations applied to them. The theme is greatly influenced by a factory setting; therefore most of the imagery will be of spinning gears, industrial pipes, metal, sparks and machinery.

Sound

after browsing through soundtrack pro's free samples, I gathered a large range of mechanical sounds and ambient noises that will fit well with my project.
The files I used can be downloaded from:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ti38r7och63c49n

I don't know if I applied sound correctly, or in the most efficient way, but this is the way I did it:

Final Touches

I have made the entire animation, now it is time to smooth out any transition and put some final touches such as glow/blur effects etc to make it looks a bit more dynamic.

Loops

I needed to loop a series of spinning gears/cogs appearing at different times.

These tutorials helped me out here.
It would be perfect if I could loop full compositions, but apparently after effects CS5.5 can't do that.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-loop-an-animation-in-After-Effects-CS5/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN2cEiNySpM

Attempting to use the camera

After learning a few things about the camera tool, I think that if i set up my compositions to look like this, I will be able to navigate through it using the camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDK00n50bvg

Starting to animate

I have begun assembling the elements in After Effects and animating them,
 mostly using transitional effects.

Illustrator Elements complete

I have completed all of my illustrator vector elements based on the list with a few adjustments, ready to be animated in After Effects