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Experimental 3D curriculum of Claudia Hart at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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03.09.2020 Virtual Installation: Workshop Notes

Creating a Gif

Photoshop Edit

Unlock > Layer

File > Save as > StillLife.PSD

Layer > Duplicate Layer

Image > Adjustments (brightness, contrast, etc)

Layer > Duplicate Layer (convert to jpeg)

 Gif

File > Scripts > Load Files into a stack

Browse > Select images > Add “Open Files” > OK

Open to new “untitled”

Create Frame Animation (Press the button)

Frame Rate 0.35 is good (especially for gifs with Alpha)

File > Save As > PSD

Export > Save size 720 MAX

Dither makes smooth transitions

Preview

 After Effects

1.     File

Import Multiple files

Import the “master” & 2 Alphas (opt)

Green behind it > Composition for each Alpha

2.     “Flower Noise”

Drag and drop into comp.

Layer > New > solid

Alpha goes on TOP!

Layer editor > Right click > Blending Mode

Composition settings > Size reduce in compressor > SILHOUETTE LUMA

3.     Effects

 Animate x,y,z of choosing

4.     Preview > Play Back

Tip: Green for Chroma Key Hex is: 00ff00

Composition

Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Double click on compression

Format : H264

Put in the right folder in output name

Basic vide setting > uncheck > width 720

Use MAX render quality

Scroll down VBR pass > Target bitrate 0.9

List of Photoshop hotkeys : https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html

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Quick Tip: Exporting with Alpha Channels in After Effects - The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat

Learn how to export a video with alpha layers in the following quick tip tutorial in After Effects.

Follow this tutorial to export with alpha channel in After Effects.

Don’t forget to set the output format to Apple ProRes 4444. (After step 3, click “Format Options > Set Video Codec to Apple ProRes 4444″

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Final project file structure 

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Learn about alpha channels that contain transparency information, track mattes, traveling mattes, and feathering masks in After Effects.

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Alpha and Luma Mattes in After Effects CC

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After Effects Alpha & Luma Matte Tutorial | Motion Array

Learn how to use luma mattes and alpha mattes in After Effects. It's super easy!

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How to use Alpha Channel After Effects

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After Effects: Essential

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After Effects: Rendering and Exporting

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After Effects: Creating and refining masks.

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Claude Monet

1. Water Lily Pond

1900, 1933.441

2. Cliff Walk at Pourville

1882, 1933.443

3. Water Lilies

1906,1933.1157

4. Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist), from the series "Mornings on the Seine"  1897, 1933.1156

5. Poppy Field (Giverny)

1890/91, 1922.4465

6. Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont

1885, 1964.204

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Woman Reading 1879/80 Édouard Manet

Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin) 1879 Edgar Degas

The Millinery Shop 1879/86 Edgar Degas

Woman in a Garden 1882/83 Berthe Morisot

Portrait of a Woman with a Black Fichu 1878 Edouard Manet

Young Peasant Having Her Coffee 1881 Camille Pissarro

Insun Kang

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Easter Mystery (Mystère de Pâques)

Maurice Denis,1891

1994.431

Madame Vallotton and her Niece, Germaine Aghion

Félix Edouard Vallotton,1899

1977.606

The Harvest of Buckwheat

Paul Sérusier, 1899

2016.123

The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1884-1889

1922.445

Foliage—Oak Tree and Fruit Seller

Edouard Vuillard, 1918

1999.373

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Woman at Her Toilette, 1870-1880

Berthe Morisot

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The Commode

1905/12

Walter Gay