After Effects 5: Infographics

In preparation for the After Effects workshop I went to the National Football Museum to collect data to be used in the workshop. My group is focusing on football in the past, the quote I chose links football and the First World War. The chosen quote is “The directors had decided that my war experience had finished me as a footballer… I was twenty-three, suspect in health, and, worst of all, unwanted at Sunderland.” Said by James Seed, manager at Milwall 1958. For the background I created a no mans land inspired space, with a bleak and empty look to it. I added barbed wire and created a pattern for a football to be used in the scene too. Below is the artwork I created to take to the workshop.

During the workshop I added the text and animated it into the scene using some of the After Effects 

text pre-sets, the one I used was Fade Character In. Using the football pattern I had previously created I made the football pattern into a 3D sphere, the only 3D shape that can be made in After Effects. Below is the finished animation.  

Football_and_War from Eve Whelan on Vimeo.