Import the files that you previously created in Photo Shop. Your Composition should be the SAME SIZE AS YOUR MAZE. Launch After Effects and Create a New Composition: You may choose to ignore or expand on these to suit your own creative style. What is offered here are basic guidelines. Hint: Use the grid view and guides to create perfectly aligned munchies. (Again, name each layer for identification purposes later.) If you include your munchies with the maze, you will be forced, in After Effects, to use a layer mask to make them disappear. Use a second layer to place your munchies inside the maze. Keep in mind that this is the platform on which you will animate your Pac Man. Make it as simple or as complex as you wish. Use your imagination to build your maze and your munchies. I’ll be using a custom size to conform to the maze I created.Ģ. Use an aspect ratio that conforms to your needs.
We will import this file into After Effects as a Composition in a future step. Be sure to save your document as something other than untitled. You will want to rename these layers so as to better identify them when you import this document into After Effects. "PASTE" the half that you previously cut from Layer One into a new layer.
Using the rectangle marquee tool, select the upper or lower half of the sphere and then "CUT" that half. Create a sphere, about 2/3 the size of your art board, draw it as close to the middle of the layer as possible. Use a measurement that conforms to your needs. Launch Photo Shop and open a new documentĪ. My tutorial uses Photoshop as the design tool. (In part 2 we will add some more elements.)Įach of these elements are easily created in Photo Shop or Illustrator. The Munchies - virtually any object you want Pac Man to eat The Maze - which can be as complex or as simple as you wishģ. The simple Pac Man design breaks down into three elements Ģ. I like this project for beginners because it starts with fundamental design and animating skills and then progresses the student in his/her understanding of the After Effects application and interface. In this project we will explore a variety of the many capabilities After Effects provides the user. This is more of a design project that incorporates many of the foundational skills associated with AE pre-comps, transformations, layer masks, etc. The tutorial will include guidelines on building the components in Photoshop or Illustrator and then integrating them into AE to animate Pac Man. This 2 part tutorial is a simulated Pac Man animation as he navigates a maze and gobbles dots along the way.
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