hey there everyone how's it going this is Micah laplante from the laplanet arts to
show you a little bit about motion graphics and how to bump up your game
using motion blur so say you've got yourself motion graphics a little
animation that you're proud of let's give this a little bit of a play okay
well let that go through the RAM and there you go so you see the gears
turning here they have a nice speed ramping where they go a little bit
faster in the middle and then they slow back down to a stop now this looks
somewhat okay it's a really simple animation but it could really be a
little bit further and there could be some it's still not as believable
because you can see that the movement doesn't seem as real or organic so one
way you can do that is by adding a motion blur now motion blurs are occured
when something's moving faster than the rate that the frames can be captured in
a camera now since you're animating and it doesn't really work that way they
just move between the frames so how can you do that well one way to do that is
in pixel motion blur so when you have this down in your composite go to
effects oops click on it first select it go to
time and pixel motion blur you can see I already added a little bit of one in
there but it looks kind of just like faded frames that's okay
what you need to do is you need to drag the shutter angle
have increases the amount it looks like it's moving add the shutter samples
bring that around 30 or so let's it a little bit higher
now it varies depending on how much motion is in there right now these are
just gears that are spinning and turning each other so they move actually really
fast in the middle so you want to make it seem like it is true otherwise you
might not need to add so much with it let's bring this down to my 34 might be
good now let's add the vector detail up a bit
okay now that looks good now what this does is it makes vector samples and
takes it from the frames in between and kind of assesses how much movement has
occurred within the last few frames and then blends the motion accordingly and
it makes a pretty good looking blur so we can see that at the fastest point
right here around the middle it's even let's get another frame because that one
was an odd frame and see how much movement it did right in the beginning
it looks pretty good
that looks decent right in the middle you can see that looks a little wonky
because the frames are moving so fast that it's creating a inaccurate blur so
that's okay we can fix that you just have to tweak
it a little bit when it's at its fastest to check and see the best you can do
there okay that looks a little better let's bring the shutter angle up a
little okay increase the shutter samples one thing you have to keep in mind
though is that the more information you need it to render the more time it's
going to take to render this which is okay if you're doing a four second clip
and especially if it's one you're going to use a lot you're gonna want it to
look as good as possible but just remember that it will take a
while to render especially if you want to get a preview of it see I'm only
rendering right now the previews at a quarter of the resolution so go back to
the beginning here look at some of these samples I think we're at a place we can
work with so let's go ahead and render that out so you can see here that this
added a bit to the animation the first one looks a little plain and just has a
more amateur feel it doesn't have as much life to it whereas with the motion
blur and adds quite a bit more life to it
and when you're working with motion graphics you want things to look as
appealing as possible like say this was a loading animation loading screen
animation by having this type of animation it'll make things look a
little more visually appealing alright guys I hope that was helpful for you I
plan on doing more of these videos in the near future and let me know if
there's something in particular you'd like to learn in Adobe After Effects and
then I can see if I can make a tutorial for you alright guys it's time for me to
sign off I will see you in the next video