Creating Motion Tiles - Adobe After Effects Tutorial

Jacquelin Vanderwood April 1, 2004   1 The simplest form of Motion Tile is to make and animate tiles vertically and horizontally. Create a 640 x 480 project. Import a picture. Click on Tile Center and keep it at it's current location.   2 For Tile Width and Tile Height designate 25. Click on the clocks. (Make and copy all keyframes across at the frame intervals of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.   3 Set Output Width and Height to 75. Click on the clocks. 4 Hit the U key to see the timeline effects. Click the clock in Phase. Move to frame 1.   5 Set a keyframe by adding 1 rotation.   6 At frame 2 set a keyframe by setting phase to -2. Hit the home key and press the spacebar to watch what you have done.   7 Set a keyframe at 0 and 2 for the default. At frame 3 change the coordinates to 178 and 419.   8 At frame 4 reduce the Tile Width and Height.   9 At frame 5 change the settings for Tile Width and Height and for Phase.   10 At frame 6 uncheck all but Output Height and Phase. Make the adjustments shown below.   11 Use Ease on all of the keyframes. Below are the keyframes as they should appear.   Copyright 1998-2004, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved