Description

A series of tutorials for Autograph

Tutorials

1. Getting started in Autograph-Using our plugins »
2. Twixtor in Autograph »
3. Autograph: Getting Started »
4. Instancer: Basic Principles and Concepts »
5. Instancer: Creating an Animated Rainbow Transition »

Description

This tutorial follows our first Instancer generator video, which goes over basic principles and concepts: https://youtu.be/krqa6o4eyYk

In this tutorial, we’ll use the Instancer generator again with a Stroke generator as a Template to create dozens of colored bands:

0:00 Intro

0:23 Animating the initial stroke

1:58 Connecting to the Instancer

2:55 Stroke distribution

3:44 Color variation

4:24 Rotating instances

4:50 Time offset

5:40 Animating strokes

6:52 Adding animated text

8:55 Blending modes

9:19 Conclusion

Description

In this first tutorial, we'll go over Autograph's interface and main principles:

0:00 Intro

0:28 Interface

1:03 Importing graphic elements

2:12 Adding a composition and managing the format

3:41 How to use the Viewer

6:08 Adding layers in the Stack and managing parameters

7:45 Autograph's coordinate system

8:25 Transformation Widget

12:30 Reformatting using the Reader

14:06 Display mode of multidimensional parameters

15:58 Inspecting channels

17:00 Visual Stack and overlays

18:03 Animating layers with keyframes

21:34 Copying keyframes and links between parameters

23:12 Adding Modifiers

24:21 Graph Editor and interpolation types

25:36 Linking parameters

26:45 Layer motion blur

29:00 Replacing a Source

30:44 Adding a generator

32:09 Navigating the Properties Panel

32:44 Gradient parameters

33:40 Adding an image Modifier

35:32 Other types of Modifiers

37:10 Infinite space and time

37:42 Opacity and blending modes

38:40 Animating using the Animator modifier

40:30 Managing Time Offset

42:00 Conclusion

Description

In this tutorial, we'll go over the basic principles of Autograph's Instancer generator. The purpose of the Instancer is to quickly populate a composition with one or more graphic sources, whether they be vector or raster images, still or animated, and to apply several variations to each of the instances:

0:00 Intro

0:26 Template

0:53 Dimension Size

1:24 Instance Transform

3:34 Animating a Template source

4:40 Instance Time offset

5:36 Varying instances

6:56 Replacing the source with an image

8:56 Instancing with multiple dimensions

10:04 Conclusion