In order to help us with editing our own NFTs, we had a animation workshop with Liam Nunn who specialises in using AfterEffects, that’s a digital software where you can edit videos and create animations. He’s a well known local editor/ animator in Jersey that has recently started his own digital software company called Milk. This helped us get used to the software to make sure we are comfortable with the tools when it comes to editing our own video.

We learnt all about the different key frames and how you use them for each movement you code , which marks the start and finish of each movement. Once we got used to the basics we then got shown how to increase or slow down the speed of the movements of the face as well as getting shown how to use rotations which you plot on each key frame. We used a very simple template that Liam Nunn created for us , and we could change the facial structure and movement of each face part just through sliding the mouse around the screen. Using this template, we were allowed to work on top of his work and plot key frames we wanted to do , such as I plotted a key frame and made a square move along the animated face, clockwise at a 1x speed. I then caused the eyebrows to move from the left to the right as well as the mouth moving up and down. This workshop was very useful as it helped us get to know the way the editing process of AfterEffects works and when it came to using it in the editing process of our NFT project.

Some screen prints from what we worked on;