Main Concepts:

These are the features and concepts we will be focusing on in this project:

• Creating and animating solids

• Importing Illustrator files as Comp

• Using Null Objects for Expressions and Parents

• Setting up a master color with Expressions

• Parenting

• Creating 3D layers

• 3D material options

• Light Options

• Animating a Light

• Saving a Comp as a Proxy

Requirements:

After Effects 5.0 or later standard version.

Getting Started:

Inside the Tutorials master folder on the accompanying CD, locate and copy the 06_PiccadillyCircus folder to your hard drive.

In the folder Final Movies inside this main folder, double-click on and play the movies PiccadillyCircus.mov and Underground.mov. The first movie is what you will be creating in this tutorial; the second shows you how you will use it in the next tutorial.

Open the file PiccadillyCircus_5.aep inside the Project folder this is your starting point; we suggest you save under a new name after each major section.

Overview

The client brief for the next two tutorials is to create graphics for a travel series that uses the London Underground (the subway, also known as the tube ) as a central theme. Each segment of the show focuses on the shops, sites, and tourist attractions around a particular tube stop, such as Piccadilly Circus.

There are two parts to the overall design, each of which will be covered in this and the following tutorial: The...