Researching After Effects!

Looking at visual effects that are broken down and explained more in to detail here are some videos I watched to learn more. The first I watched is Harry Potter VFX being broken-down, I clearly knew before hand that most of it will be made by a computer but such small parts you would not think are created in they way they are done.

Another video is The Impossible, personally I find the film incredible and the cinematography is just unreal. But a huge part to play in the film to make sure that it looks realistic and to make sure they get across in the film everything that really happened and how it effected not only family and friends but people who they met on the way, for example the little lost boy who found his dad in the end. The special effects like the water flying at the children in the hotel which was created by four tanks for 4000 litters of water.

The last video I watched was the Maze Runner, the maze was obvious to be created but when you watch the first minute of the video you see how so much effort has been put in for example the air coming through the tunnel making the tiny leafs move. It shows you in so much depth the leafs which are tiny are created at a normal size and moved with the wind which you don’t even notice but make such a difference to the scene.

After watching many different break downs of special effects, since growing up you just automatically learn to grown to effects like this and the quality of the films. For example when I was a child normal film quality would be something like Oliver and Company.

This is a classic Disney film from 1988 and the quality when I was to watch it as a child seem amazing because its what I had grown up and seen, where as Disney Frozen the quality of that has just pushed the bar for creating something spectacular and is another level.

 

After Effects History

After effects was first created in 1993, David Simons was one of the original creators. After effects has changed dramatically over the years since it was first created, it was not added to adobe until 1994 and Adobe’s first realised there version of After Effects was 3.0.

When the software first appeared there was only limited areas you could create unless had a strong understanding of the software. Now you its easily accessible and has several new parts which can be added such as “Plug ins”. This is where someone created a file you can download and attach to your project for example camera shake, lighting or colour filters.