Over the past couple of weeks I have been learning about two programs that deal with animation. These two programs are Adobe After Effects CC and Adobe Animate CC. My initial thoughts about these two programs are very different. This might be because of the difference in difficulty of the two animations I made in each program. My initial thoughts on Adobe After Effects CC are that it is that it is a useful program and that it can be used for many things. For example I made a motion graphic describing myself and because my family is from Italy, I decided to add a pizza as a background. My experience with Adobe Animate CC was much more rough. My project was to create a monster eating a blob of food. When I started I had to draw the body using the pen tool and then animate it appropriately. However, when I added the shape tweens it would twist and move in an unwanted manner. Normally you could just add some shape hints and that would fix the problem but for some reason when I added shape hints it just made it worse. To solve the problem I had to redraw the whole thing. This was not the only problem I encountered, I also had trouble with the easing but that was solved by reapplying the easing after restarting Adobe Animate CC. Although I found more problems with Adobe Animate, I found that there are more options with Animate than After Effects, such as the use of symbols. This allowed for me to animate more abstract shapes without using shape hints. This saved a lot of time and helped facilitate many different portions of the monster. Overall I found Animate more useful but more problematic than After Effects.
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My name is Vinicio Maresca and my family is from Italy, however, I was born in the US. I will be adding to this blog page as time goes by.
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