Adobe After Effects

After a frustrating time with Adobe Flash, I looked to seek advice on if there were any other programs available to me that I could use that would help the production and flow of the project. On consultation with my tutor, I was steered towards Adobe After Effects as it is known for its greater fluidity, powerful colour adjustments and the ability to play with sound, moving image, still image and illustrations all within the same timeline. Flash is a lot more rigid and I felt it didn't allow me the freedom to play around and experiment enough and After Effects offered this.

I looked up a few beginners tutorials of After Effects and they confirmed my tutors advice in telling me that After Effects offered the following features:

• Motion graphics and video
• Freedom to work with illustrator/ still image/ video/ sound combined
• Rotobrush feature- Allows the user to grab juts a particular park of a layer and to animated appropriately.
• Powerful colour adjustments allows for a more visually engaging experience throughout the work.
• good for animating objects/characters using the 'puppet tool'. 
• Puppet tool allows you to take a flat 2d frame and organically bend it etc.
• Good for compositing footage with text
• Stylistic text effects