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1. Course Promo: Hi guys and welcome
to this course on animating with Dolly too. Now, in previous courses
we've looked at how to actually generate
images with Dolly too. But we're gonna go a step
further in this course. For this course, you will
need access to Dalley two and the good news
guys, that's free. All you need is an email. And you also need access to
Photoshop and After Effects, which are to Adobe
Creative Cloud projects. Now, I will be posting a link
up in the class projects. You can get a free trial to both of these pieces
of software as well. The great news is that
anyone can do this course. Now, Darley to is an ai and ai that generates
images from texts. And what we're gonna be
doing is we are going to be used in some skills to generate a series of
images from text. But we're going to
be again taking that a step further and creating an infinite
zoom from these images. So just a quick breakdown of what this course is
going to look like. We're going to start
off by looking at some existing work similar
to what we'll be creating. Then we'll look at how
we can access directly. From there. We'll
jump straight into daily and start generating all our images with a little bit of Photoshop trickery as well. Then in the next lesson
we'll be jumping into After Effects will be keeping
it fairly basic. But we will be using
a little bit of maths just to kinda create
our infinite zoom. Now, even if you
haven't used Darley two or any of the Adobe
products I mentioned. This is a short 30 minute calls and is still relatively
entry level. So you should be able
to follow along with this if you haven't used
those things before. Also the course, we'll finish with a class
assignment where you'll get to practice those skills that you've learned
in the course. So you can really finesse them and then you can
upload your work. And I can give you some
feedback on it as well. So there's not much
more to say, guys, I'm really looking
forward to jumping into this course with you. So let's get to it.
2. Ai Animation Examples: Okay, So I'm really happy that you've decided to
set this course. I think it's really,
really cool. More AI can do. And
I'm gonna show you a few examples of
what will be created. So here's two examples
that I've made. His first one. You've
got this infinite Zoom. I started with a
robot in a desert, which I did for the other
one, funnily enough as well. And then we've got loads
of different art styles. That's what I like about
this one is I tried to load a different art
styles to this one. So you can see you've
got photo realism, then we've got some
sci-fi 3D stuff, then realism, then sort of vapor wave and stuff like that. So that's what I liked about
that one big variation. This is the one that
I'll actually end up making with you
in the course. So again, starting with
the robot in the desert, but I'll be making this
one with you in the course today as I'm recording
this at the end. So again, loads of cool, interesting stuff in this. Yeah, that's what we'll
be making in this one. There is also some stuff
online are found as well, which are really, really cool. So you've got this
one 30-minute long, like infinite loop, infinite
zoom kind of thing. It's literally insane. This is the kind
of stuff that you can make them in a sort of taken while they may have a looped the same one over
and over again. To be honest, I
haven't watched it all the way through
to pointing down. And then this one you've
got is a two-minute one. And I would give an
educated guess that this isn't because I've watched the first thirty-seconds
and all different. So I'd make an educated
guess and this is certainly a two-minute one. The one we'll be making
is 20 s and there's no there's no reason why you can't go and make one longer. But this is the kind of
stuff which will be making. There'll be a square video. So I hope that gets you excited. So what I'm gonna do next, I will show you how
to access dolly. So I look forward to seeing
you guys in the next lesson.
3. How to access DALL-E 2: Okay, so in order to get set up and start
working with Dolly, It's free to use all
your needs, an e-mail. So what you're
going to want to do is you're going to want to hit Sign up and you're gonna want to sign
up with the details. Once you've done that, obviously you're gonna want
to click login. So I'm gonna go ahead and login. It'll end up logging in, I think automatically maybe. Or it may ask for a
Google account from me. Continue with Google for now. Once you've logged
in, you'll see a little profile picture in
the top right-hand corner. And this is dolly. Okay? Now I do have a course which goes through all
the basics of this. So feel free to
look through that. But all you need to be aware of, this is, this is where
we put our text prompt, whatever we texted in
that it tries to show us, okay, we're gonna be
using it a little bit more advanced
in today's lesson. But the one thing
to be aware of is Darley has this credit system. You will have 15 credits per month and you've got the
option to buy credits. Now obviously,
because I'm on 29, I have bought credits. It's $15, 415. You don't have to do
for this project. If you don't, then
you'll have 153 credits. I end up generating 20 images. You will probably be
limited just to create ten, but you can absolutely still do this course with ten
images or 15 credits. You can do it with
15 images in Iowa. I do buy credits. What I'm doing stuff because I just liked the flexibility and I can generate three or four times to get what I really want. But again, with 153 credits, you can totally still do exactly what we're
gonna be doing. Okay? So that's how you
access, Darling. I'm going to leave
it there because in the next lesson now
we're going to start generating our
images with Darley, processing them in Photoshop. So yeah, I look forward to
seeing you in the next lesson.
4. Generating images in DALL-E 2 and Photoshop ready to animate: Okay, so in this lesson folks, we're going to generate the
images that we're going to use in our infinite zoom. So we're inside of Darley. I'm logged in. Here is the link
labs.openai.com. I'm logged in. I've got my 64 credits. So yeah, we're going
to jump in now. What I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna use the text prompts just to
start with S1 will say a robot in a desert. I'm going to put Simon style, OK, because he's
an artist alive. And I'm also going to
put photo realistic. I think that's gonna be
a good starting point. So I'm going to
click Generate and I'm going to see
what it delivers. Okay, so looking at this, I'm pretty happy
with what we've got. I think I'm going
to go for this one. If I wasn't happy, I could
just kind of regenerate. I don't like what's
going on here. So just a little tip. What you can do is you can use this edit function just to
raise that you don't like. And I'm just going to
click Generate again. And it's going to fill
that gap with that prompt, which we've already used, may get a few different variations, but I'm sure one
of them will do. Okay, So actually, I like that it's added
another robot here. I think I'm going
to go for that one. Almost looks like a bit
of a battle, doesn't it? So what I'm gonna do is I'm
going to click Download. And I've already got two
images down here from earlier. This one, what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to drag
this to my desktop. I'm going to rename it
frame underscore 001. It's important to put two zeros because it just helps
me ordering stuff. So just name it that. I'm going to click and
drag this into my folder. Now, this is the part where
I'm going to use Photoshop. So I'm just going to go
ahead and open Photoshop. I'm sure you can probably
do a similar thing with another photo editor
or something. But this is going to be
very useful for you, okay? So Photoshop is
probably going to be the best way forward on at least that's what
I'll be using here. So what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna go ahead and access my desktop. And what does it downloaded
images. Here we go. I'm going to click and
drag this image in. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to go ahead and do some stuff, but I want to record
it as an action. And that means when I
drag in images later on, it'll just kind of we can
automate the process. So what I'm gonna do is if you can't see
your actions Window, go to Window and click Actions. Then what I'm gonna
do is I'm going to click New and
I'm going to call this Darley resizing,
something like that. And what I'm gonna do then is
I'm going to click record. And what we'll be doing is a little cord,
everything I do, so I'll start off with my
rectangular marquee tool. Just come around this
little watermark because I'm sorry Dolly, but it's not going
to work with our, with our infinite zoom. So if I click Edit and
then Content-Aware Fill, and it will do a good job. I'm just going to click. Okay. What I'm gonna do then is go to, I've got my son
because they're still selected here and we'll select. And then I'm going
to click de-select. I'm then going to hold shift
and click the bottom layer. And I'm going to hit Control
E or Command E on Mac, control E. And it's going
to merge those layers. What I'm going to do
next, I'm just going to go File and Save. And it'll just save over
my existing frame 001. Next, I'm going to get
my selection tool. I'm going to double-click on this layer just to unlock it. And I'm just going
to click Okay. And now if I hit Control
T or Command T on a Mac, it's going to bring
up my Transform controls at the top
in width by here, I'm just going to
type 40 or free, so they both say 30. Now hit Enter and I'm
just going to hit Stop. That is my thing
generated my action. What I'm gonna do now is I'm
going to go File Save As. And then I'm gonna go frame underscore 001,
underscore, resized. And notice this from earlier because we saved at halfway
through the process. You can see there
it saves just after we've gotten rid of
the, the watermark. So that's saved it. I'm
just going to click Save. And then this will come
up and I'll click. Okay. What we'll notice now,
I've got frame one, and frame one doesn't have the watermark and then I've
got the resized version. So back into dolly. Let's go back. Let's go upload. And I'm going to find frame
one resized and click Open. I'm going to click Crop. And then under Edit Image. And what I wanna do is I
want to click in here and transparent area,
just one-click. And what it'll do is
it'll register that. Now as it really recognized
that it's transparent. I'm going to type in
here another prompt, sci-fi, cyber punk. And then an artist's
style and hard, you can type whatever you want. The more wacky, the better. I'm just going to click
Generate and it'll now generate this prompt within
this outside area. Okay, so this all
looks pretty cool. To be honest, I can't make
my mind up which one I like. I'm loving this. Not so much then in the
foreground I could erase them. But I think just to keep
things a bit quick, I'm going to go for,
and we go for this one. Okay? So I'm now going
to click Download. And it's going to
download the image. And same as for dragged desktop. I'm just going to rename it. Frame can score 000002. I'm going to click
and drag this in. And now this is where the
beauty of actions comes along. So I'm gonna go back
into Photoshop. I'm going to open my file. So back into this
folder and there it is. I'm going to drag in frame 00 to notice that currently it's
got that watermark on it. Okay. Well, I'm gonna do
is I'm going to find this. I'm now just going
to click Play. And it's going to run
through that entire process. So it's done that quick. If I come back to this folder, you'll notice this
now saved it out without the, without
the watermark. And what I can do now is
manually File Save As. And this will pop up and
I'll just save as resized. And click Save. Then. Okay, and you're probably going to guess
what happens next. Now. I'm going to come
back into Dolly. I'm going to click
back and then upload. Let's find frame to resized. Click Open, click, Crop,
click, Edit Image. Click in here. And you can
go for something wacky, space, planets, stars Via. And I'm going to put again,
I'm going with this one. I want to have the
same artists to Azure. You can go for completely
wacky different things as some of my
example showed you. But I'm just going to
click Generate now. Something went wrong. Please try again
in a few minutes. If you ever see that, it's probably that Dali is just
adding a bit of a moment. It was doing it yesterday. So yes, I'm going to leave mine a few minutes and then
I'll see you back here. Okay. I literally came back in
thirty-seconds and it did it. So I've got some pretty
interesting stuff going on. I think I'm liking this one. So again, you probably
know, I'm going to do now, I'm going to go ahead
and click Download, and it'll download it here. Let's go ahead and drag
first of all to the desktop, renamed brain underscore 003. And we're gonna do
this for 20 images. Download devotees. So let's go into Photoshop and I'm going
to bring this in. And now click Play. Do everything for
me, just like that. And File Save As, and I'm going to save
it as a resized. So that's all there
is to this part. Now what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm
gonna do is 20 times. So I'm going to end
up with 20 frames. It is literally repeat
the whole process. Okay? So I'm going to leave
you guys to that. I'm not gonna make you
sit through all of mine, but I'll fast-forward
the video and I'll show you all my
final generated images. See you guys in a bit. Okay, So I've gone
ahead and I've got my frames generated. You can see all the
work for him 20. Now with foam 20, I'm just going to drag it into Photoshop, but I'm not going
to run the action because all we need
to do on this, we don't need to resize it. We just need to
select mount here, edit and Content Aware, Fill and just click
Okay, click Okay. And I'm just going to
de-select hold Shift to merge with Control E, these layers together and
then just control them, Save and save that. What I'll do just
to tidy up is I'll go into here and let's make a folder and say frames. And then every other image, I'm just holding
Control on my Mac. I think you'd hold command. You just select
every other ones. We don't want to drag in
the resized ones here. The resized ones
have done their job. So let's try these in here and I'll just very quickly
play through mine. So it starts here. And then it zooms out, tombs out even more. And we've got all
this wacky stuff. Okay, and now we've finished. Now I'll just show
you perhaps some of the prompts that I used and then we'll wrap up and we
move into the next thing. So you can see through
here some of the prompts, bottle of potion, ethereal, mystical bottle of potion, Metro Detroit and Metroid stuff from Super
Metroid, didn't like it. Then what else? Cyborg invasion didn't like
any of that stuff either. Although that was pretty cool. Stranger Things are
typed in at one point. I'm trying to fuel that. Simon style and hog industrial
vapor way better style. Simon Stone Harvey again, art gallery because back here I started to as getting loads
of this reflection stuff. So just thought I'd put to him frames to have put
it in some sort of frame so that I can be a nice transition
to the next thing. And then I think it shows
one of the frames in here. And this then can I just carried on
developing from there? And yes, those are the prompts that I used quite a bit
of a taste for it there. So that's it for this lesson. We've generated our content
in the next lesson. Now we're going to be in After
Effects and we're going to animate this final animation. So I look forward to
seeing you in that lesson.
5. Animating an infinite zoom in After Effects: Okay folks. So I'm inside After
Effects now and I'm ready to start animating
the interpreter Zoom. So the first thing I'm going to want to do is just come over here and double-click and then navigate to my desktop and find where my friends are. Here they are. And I'm
going to click and then hold shift and
select the last one. I don't want, I want
to make sure that this sequence isn't ticked. Don't want it to import
it as a sequence. I'm just going to
click Import and it's going to import
all of the images. Okay, so what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna get frame one. I'm going to click and drag it down to the new
composition window. I'm gonna go to
composition settings, and I'm going to change
the longevity to 10 s. And let's go 25
frames per second. And 10 s would be 250 frames because
I'm set up in frames. And I'm just going to call
this frames one to ten. Okay? And I'm going to click Okay. So it's 10 s long. If you're working in frames
and you don't like it, just hold Control
and click your time. But here there is one to 10 s. Okay? So I'm gonna do is I'm
going to get frames to ten, select them holding Shift
and I'm going to click and drag them down below. Now I'm gonna do the
exact same thing with those lead into 20. And I'll illustrate
the reason why we're doing them in sets of ten liter. So dry travel, adding
new composition window, composition settings should
be able to say in 25, 10 s. And I'm going to call
this frames 11 to 20. And click Okay, and then
I'll get frames 12 onwards. Shift-click and
placing down here. So that's what I've got so far. Okay, so now that I'm in here, I need to start playing
around with my scale. So when we come to frame one, if I hit S on the keyboard, you will notice I can now type in here for scale
30 and hit Enter. And basically if I
turn this icon on and off is just kind of
a lined it up there. Okay, because remember we scaled down by a factor of 30% area. Now what I'm gonna do, notice you've got the
parent option here. If you haven't, just
click Toggle Switches, but it should be able to see it. And if you still can't,
just put here, right-click, go to columns and make sure that Parent and Link is ticked. Okay, So what I wanna do, I've scaled this down to 30. I want to grab this pick whip, not this one on the scale, the layer one, click and drag
and drop onto frame two. Okay? So what will happen
now as I scale frame to frame one
scales with it. Okay? So before I do move on, notice that we've got a bit
of a harsh edge around there. What we can do with
frame one selected, just get our square tool. And I'm just going to click in and just do a little bit of a mask inside like that. Okay, cool. So now I want to
come to frame two. I'm going to hit S and it'll be very much the same type in 30. Hit Enter. Now I'm going to parent, so click and drag for
him to, to frame three. We've got a bit of a harsh edge again with Frame Tool selected. I'm just going to come
in and just mask, just roundabout but there. And so we've got that
connected there. Now I'm going to come scale, take frame freedom for 30. And make sure we then
link this to frame for. I'm not actually seen a
harsh edge on that one. So I'm going to skip. Welcome to frame for
IT S, change it to 30. And I'm getting a bit of a
harsher edge on this one. So I'm just gonna make
sure I link this to here. And I'm going to
come on to this one. And I'm going to
get my mask tool and start masking
it in like that. And what I may do as a main
feather, this mask slightly. But essentially,
you're gonna wanna do this and go, go through this. You can see frame. This one is linked
to the one below. This. Frame two is linked
to from frame 33, link to four, and so on. Okay, so I'm gonna go
ahead and I'm going to carry on doing that for mine. Okay, So now I've
done each of them. They're all they've all
been linked to each other. Okay, so I've just gone through
literally what I've done, just a little bit of a recap. Fast forwarded that bit. I've gone one, scale that down to 30 and then linked it to the one below. Phone to scale that down to 30, linked it to the one below. Three, scale that down to 30 linked to the one
below and so forth. And when I got to the last one, I did scale this down to 30 because it will need to
tie into the next one. Now I'm going to do
the exact same thing in this composition as well. So S for scale 30, and I'm going to link scale 30. And I'm going to link. And again, if you started to
see a bit of a harsh edge, you can come in versus
an optional one. And you can just start to chuck a mask on there
and maybe feather the edges of that mask a bit. And it just kinda helps
to blend it a bit better, but it's not
absolutely necessary. Okay, so now this number
here S scale with booty. And I can see a little bit
of a harsh edge there. So again, I'm just
going to go there. And just make sure I link this and I can feather
the mask a little bit. But again, you're
just going to need to work through so I'll
fast-forward as I do this one. Okay, so now that
I've done that, when I get to frame 20, I'm actually not going to
scale this one down because this will be our final frame. Okay? So what I'm gonna do now is I'm actually going
to start animating it. So that's the setup done. So I'm gonna jump back
into my first comp. And what I wanna do is I
want to actually start off zoomed in on frame ten. If I just zoom
everything in now, it's going to zoom
in exponentially to everything in here. But just trying to click
and drag to scale up. It's actually scale
up exponentially. And basically what we're going to end up because all
of these are linked, we're going to end up being
really close in on frame one. We've got to get a
little bit creative with the math because as I
click and drag is just gonna go really slow
because the scale is what we call exponential
rather than linear. So what we're gonna
do is we're going to bring a little bit
of maths into this. Now, let's just open up my calculator and
maybe my notepad. Because there's a
real simple way we can actually figure this out. So let's get my little
notepad like this. Now what we've done is
we've scaled every layer to 30% and we can work
that out if we do one sort of inverse it 1/9, 0.3, you're gonna
get a 3.3 beaker. And I think that's
my masker x 1/0, 0.33, 0.3 V occur in. But because we work
in percentages, we want to times that by 100, times this by 100, 333. And what that's gonna do, we've
inverted what we've done. If I type 333 here, it's going to scale it
up to the next frame. Now what we need to do is we need to actually
then times that. So we need to put
that to the power of maybe three frames and then do your luxury. I think
that's in the wrong place. Let's put the brackets here. This is purely illustrative. I'm going to give you
the formula to type in brackets somewhere
around there. I'm not very good at my
maths, but that's going to work out the scale to
get to the third frame. So let's put that to the test. I think I need to go
scientific, scientific. And actually what we can do is we can actually type
this in down here. And eventually
we're going to put 11 because we're going
to have 11 frames. But essentially
the function that you're going to need
to type it in is I'll put this in a little
text document and I'll actually upload it is going to look like this, okay? And we're going to type
that into position here. Watch what happens now. If I do type this
into our scale, because you can type ten plus ten in here
if you wanted to. And it's going to give
you a scale of 20. Well, I'm actually going
to type this in here. What it's doing is just
backtrack in that 30%, putting it to the power of
11 because we've got 11, even though we've got
ten frames and now we're gonna go live
and to get one extra, and we times it by 100
to get a percentage. And this is actually if
I type this in here. And it's gonna give us
this massive number, and that's actually the number that we want our scale to be. So let's just, I'm going to
paste that formula in here. And it's going to scale
all the way right in. What we're gonna do
is we're going to set a keyframe at the beginning. Success keeping that
were very much, we're really zoomed in a moment, so don't worry, it
looks bit weird. And then I'm going to
come all the way to here. I'm literally gonna go like 30. Okay. So what you've got is it's
a zoom out from my initial, I'll zoom out really
slow and then really, really fast zoom out
from my initial one. And then it goes like super-duper
fast towards the end. But that's because it's
an exponential thing. So what we need
to do now is just select these two keyframes. Right-click Keyframe
Assistant, exponential scale, and it's going to
counteract that. So watch what happens now
when i just play it back. So you can see kind
of what's happening. And basically all we need
to do this for both things. All this function is doing is it's really sort of
undoing this 30%. So 1/0, 0.3 is 3.33. We times that by 100 to get
our percent, which is 330%. That's what the first frame. We do it to the
power of 11 because we're zooming in 11 times. And then we just set a keyframe for that
at the beginning and we go back up to 30. So again, I'm going to post, make sure you have
this as a text file. I'm going to come here and
I'm going to do the same. So what I wanna do
is set a keyframe, first of all, for 100s and I'm just going
to put that to the end. Then what I'm doing here is
I'm going to paste that. And we've got something
that looks like this. Okay, so what I'm going
to select them both, right-click and go to
keyframe assistant, exponential scale and
exponential scale. So you've got now a
very similar thing. You've got this exponential
scale zoom out. So the next thing that we've
got to do is we've got to actually combine
these two things. So I'm gonna go and go
composition, new composition. I want it to be 1024 by 1024 because that's the
resolution of these two. And I want to make it
this time 20 s long. And I'm going to put
combination and click Okay, the drag both frames, one to 1011 to 20 n.
Let's come through. I'm going to hit the top layer
to about 50% transparency. Now we would think that they
just go after each other. But if you have a look, this, what we wanna do, we want this to these two align. So I'm going to come
maybe back to here. We go where it's just there. And I'm going to drag this layer and almost just trying to line them up, like so. So we've got tonight
opacity backup. So basically if we play forward, this is kind of what we've got. Then you go into
another one that was a little bit
of a jump there. So it's probably out
by a frame or two. So you can try and
think, Is that it? Yeah. So did I smooth it was just asked
by a frame or two. I'm going to come back
to the beginning. I'm going to trim the
first bit off by here. So I'm going to trim that. And I'm now going to go ahead. Does the end needs
to come off a bit? No, it doesn't. So I'm gonna get both of them, drag this to the beginning. Perfect. So if we play it through, this
is what we've got so far. Okay, So what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to come to the end. Use my page down keys just
to find the very last frame. And then hit N on the keyboard, which brings in our work area, right-click trim
comp to work area. Now I'm going to get
these two Control Shift C to precompose them. Make sure move all
attributes is ticked. And I'm going to call this time remap because what
I wanna do is I want to, wanted to start off nice and slow and finish nice and slow. Okay, so in order to do that, what I'm gonna do is I'm
going to go right-click, right-click the layer time where time is and enable
time remapping. I'm going to get
this first frame. Right-click Keyframe
Assistant, Easy Ease n. Right-click this one. Keyframe assistant
and easy ease. Now, it's not doing it too
brilliantly at the moment. So what we're gonna do
is select them both, go into our graph editor. And if I hold Alt
and click and drag, I'm just going to
click out to give this a nice little bit of a curve. And I'm also going to Alt
click and drag this one to give this one a nice little
bit of a curve as well. And now what we should
have if I come back is something that starts off and then gets a little bit
faster through the middle. We now have our final
animated infinite zoom. So there was quite a few
complex techniques within that. And also if you
do look back e.g. you can see the edge
of that border there. So you could go
back, what's that? Could go back in here and think, which layer is that? It's this one by here
to come back in and add this mask by there and maybe feather the mask by ten pixels just to
feather it a bit. So if we come back now, it's a little bit nicer
and you've kinda go through and make sure
each one is like that. So that is our final
infinite zoom. So I really hope you guys
learned a lot with that. Like I said, this complicated
function, I will upload. It is very complicated
to understand. So don't worry if you
didn't quite get it, you basically need to just be kind of like pasting that in. And it gives you this number
for the scale which is going to take you use
to actually drag too. So anyway, hope
you enjoyed that. Stick around for the next
class because I'm going to set your class project
in the next class. I look forward to
seeing you there. Cheers.
6. Class Project: Hi guys, well done. You've made it
through the course and onto the class project. For this assignment, it's
not gonna be too difficult. I want you to use the skills and techniques that you've
learned throughout this course so far to create
another infinite zoom. But this time I want you to use just one art
style if you can. But more importantly,
I want to see three locations across
the infant Zoom. I want to see a jungle, I want to see mountains, and I want to see outerspace. So if you can keep it to one
art style, that'll be great. Definitely include
those three locations, mountains, jungle,
and outer space. Once you've made it, I think, uploaded to YouTube and
then share the link in the class project because I'd love to see what you create. And I think it'd
be great if we can see what each other
are created as well. So I really look
forward to seeing what you guys do with this. I hope you enjoyed
the course and I hope to see you again
in a future course. Well done, cheers.
Jonathon Parker, Passionate MoGraph and VFX Lectu
