After Effects was something I had used very briefly a long time before and it took a lot of practice to to get to a point where I was happy with the results.
The animations as mentioned in my previous post I wanted to keep simple such as zooms, fades and side scrolls. The more flashy effects I tried with the artwork the more the focus was taken away from them and as Darkin (2010) states "The focus of the showreel must be on the artwork and not on the effects." [online Computer Arts]. I thought this was vital and that anything to visible in the way of effects would detract from the art itself.
For some of the pieces I decided that it would look good in the showreel if the centrepieces of the art appeared before the rest of the piece so I made layers in Photoshop and tested out how that would look before adding the effect to my final showreel.
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