After Effects Workshop

Commercial Slight - the bit at a start of a commercial worth lots of money if you can do one.


It's important to be organised with folders to maintain older versions of production in case something goes wrong or you are asked to make changes.


Google an image of a wheeled object, make the background transparent.


Cut out all the wheels.


Bring in the photo shop file to after effects.


Import as a composition.


Bring the car body and wheels into the timeline.


Rename the layers.


Click on the wheel layer then the shape tool to draw an elipse to mask the wheel.


Use rulers to snap the mask to the centre of the wheel.


Feather the edge of the mask to make it look smoother (we also filled in some of the body behind the wheel in case there were any gaps when it spins round.


Right click in the panel the layers are in and select new, null object.


Snap the null object to the wheel then parent through the wheel.


Then create another null object and parent it to the car body.


Highlight all the layers and precompose the object.


Then create a new composition and draw the precomposed object into it and sale down.


Make a new null object to transform the wheeled object across the screen.


How to export:
Select play range when exporting (before) (B, mark in, N, mark out.)


O loops mark in/out playback section.


if it's a video for your blog just throw it into adobe media encoder (H264)
and use the render selection in Lossless for highest quality.