Digital Tutors - Animating and Compositing Futuristic Menus in After Effects

So here is my third and final attempt at this sucker. A bunch of files were corrupted on the 2nd torrent, even though they were the same as the original torrent that worked fine apart from missing a single lesson.

So let me know if this is all good

In this series of tutorials, we will learn how to animate and composite a futuristic menu interface with footage of an actor.

This course is a follow-up course to Designing Futuristic Menus in Illustrator. If you have any interest in learning how to make all of the pieces that we will be animating, you may want to watch that first.

We start out by importing all of the assets in the various ways that will best interface with after effects for animation. We then learn how to make the pieces move with the actors motions and how to use expressions to make some of the secondary pieces have visual interest as they rotate, scroll, and reveal. Towards the end of the course, we go over some great compositing tips for making your menu look better integrated with your shot. This course will teach you how to efficiently animate multiple objects and maintain visual consistency that mimics the design of a real life interface.

By the end of this course, you will have your own composited shot of an actor interacting with a futuristic interface. You'll also be armed with knowledge on how to create complex animations using expressions with ease.

Animating and Compositing Futuristic Menus in After Effects content:

1. Introduction and Project Overview

2. Importing assets and setting up the main composition

3. Placing the interface composition on the table

4. Creating a Difference Matte

5. Precomposing the interface elements to re-group

6. Animating the phone border

7. Planning the animations

8. Bringing on the start button

9. Repositioning and animating the introduction of the photo interface

10. Moving the photo folder with the hand and adding secondary animation

11. Masking the photo text to mimic life-like functionality

12. Placing and animating the pictures

13. Fine-tuning the picture animations and scaling up the main picture

14. Scaling down the other pictures and exiting the main picture

15. Introducing the maps button and exiting the pictures

16. Adding maps to the functionality

17. Placing and masking the maps

18. Entering the maps, Maximizing the main map, and exiting the smaller ones

19. Rotating the map with the actor's motion

20. Exiting the maps

21. Animating the reveal of the interface with the push of the start button

22. Finishing the start animation reveal

23. Animating the folder reveal and its secondary elements

24. Rotating the fan dial

25. Animating the thermometer

26. Animating the level meters

27. Changing the opacity of the apps for a blinking color change

28. Adding rotation animation to the start button

29. Adding motion to the apps button

30. Animating the maps button using offset

31. Animating the clocks with expressions

32. Adding rotation for the kilowatt hour meter and fan dial centers

33. Creating a sweeping radar with detection dots

34. Animating the cylindrical counting dial in the folder

35. Creating a news marquee

36. Animating the rotating arrows on the news button

37. Creating a draw-on effect for the graphs

38. Animating the elements of the main dial

39. Fine-tuning: switching on motion blur and fixing any timing issues

40. Creating a render with a PNG sequence

41. Adding camera shake by using existing footage

42. Adding vignette, reflections, and blur