Now that I have finished all my animations and they're rendered out from Maya, I can now go into the post-production phase of my demo reel. For this, I am going to use After Effects. I've been thinking of what effects I can apply to my animations to improve the overall look and feel to them. I have to be careful which how much I do though as I don't want the audience to get distracted by the effects so they don't notice the animations.
I've decided to apply very minimal effects to my work - just some lens blur to create a motion blur effect with the camera as well as optical lens flares. I could have set up my cameras in Maya to do these for me, so I wouldn't have to do them in post, but it both increases rendering time and I wouldn't have a lot of control over the lens flares.
Because I applied effects to only some of the animations, I could go straight into importing the other animations I didn't apply effects to straight into Premiere.
