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Masato · Postby **Masato** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:48 pm

About friggin time I upgraded... (old outdated shit)

Am PSYCHED:

Canuckster · Postby **Canuckster** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 7:55 am

OooOooo shiny

Empty Emp · Postby **Empty Emp** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:37 am

Does this mean your fellow ISL competitors should be scared? Haha! What version were you using before?

I still use gimp over Photoshop for almost everything because it's what I'm used to, but the animation timeline in Photoshop is the main reason I keep it installed. It probably cuts my time in half for repositioning layers from frame to frame in gifs.

I started messing around with After Effects yesterday, and that's going to be HUGE when I figure out what I'm doing. When you're cutting out an object in an animation, it intuitively predicts the outline of the object in the next frame so you only have to make minor adjustments. That would have saved me so much time back in the GP when I made this gif which probably took over 24 hours to make.

greenseed · Postby **greenseed** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 6:53 pm

awesome Masat, congrats.

awesome gif Emp.

Masato · Postby **Masato** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 7:55 pm

Empty Emp wrote:Does this mean your fellow ISL competitors should be scared? Haha! What version were you using before?

I still use gimp over Photoshop for almost everything because it's what I'm used to, but the animation timeline in Photoshop is the main reason I keep it installed. It probably cuts my time in half for repositioning layers from frame to frame in gifs.

I started messing around with After Effects yesterday, and that's going to be HUGE when I figure out what I'm doing. When you're cutting out an object in an animation, it intuitively predicts the outline of the object in the next frame so you only have to make minor adjustments. That would have saved me so much time back in the GP when I made this gif which probably took over 24 hours to make.

Thanks Emp, that's inspiring.

I got to use the new animation window in Photoshop, it is pretty fun/much easier than before

I would like to learn to use some better software though... I want something where I can mark a 'start' and 'end' position, then just plot the arcs and have the computer move it for all the inbetweens.

You are going to learn this stuff on After Effects? I have heard of other software too, not sure yet which one I want to invest my time in. Maybe the new PS already does this stuff, idk. I also want something with an audio track on the timeline

SOOON lolol

Lets keep pushing each other

Masato · Postby **Masato** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 7:56 pm

Flying Eye Angle can probably give some good advice here, he makes nice vids with smooth animation

Empty Emp · Postby **Empty Emp** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:47 am

After Effects seems like overkill for what I want to do, which is basically just make gifs, but I guess it's better to use something that does everything I need it to do and more than something that that will eventually limit me. The only reason I'm a little hesitant to really get into AE is the price. Adobe's products are way too much for a hobbyist. Plus I hate the new subscription based pricing structure. I'd rather work with software that I don't have to bootleg, but I don't know if there are any cheaper alternatives to AE.

Masato wrote:I would like to learn to use some better software though... I want something where I can mark a 'start' and 'end' position, then just plot the arcs and have the computer move it for all the inbetweens.

I'm not sure if AE does exactly that (it probably does) but it does have a motion tracking feature that I want to try.

Masato · Postby **Masato** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:19 am

You're putting the pressure on, Emp!

I love/hate you for it lol

Flying Eye Angle · Postby **Flying Eye Angle** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:54 pm

after effects is awesome. I started out with Premiere Elements for simple video editing. just wanting to make gifs and put a fireball in a video or 2 and got sucked in pretty deep when I tried out the AE trial

That cro cop gif is awesome

Empty Emp · Postby **Empty Emp** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:42 pm

Here's my first attempt at motion tracking in after effects. It took less than 30 minutes to do 350 frames :D. Positioning, scaling and rotating 350 frames would have taken me hours in photoshop or gimp.

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