This is another session that I missed due to a sporting commitment, however I have tried to recreate the outcome of the session as fully as possible. This workshop was about showcasing all of the work that we had created in these workshops throughout the whole year and putting it into one big animation or showreel, that could be potentially shown to potential employers at an interview. The main skill with putting this together was making it flow rather than just be clear separate animations, therefore I had to put in several transitions. In this piece I used basic transitions such as change of position to go off the screen and a change in opacity. However I will explain two of the more complex ones that I did. Firstly to do the page turn transition I chose two points on the timeline and applied a keyframe at each for both the fold direction and fold position. I then went to the first keyframe and changed the fold direction to -60 so that it folded away from the bottom right corner and for the fold position I dragged the crosshairs that showed the point down towards the original position until it was laid flat on the surface. I then moved to the second keyframe and pulled the crosshairs for fold position up towards the top left corner of the piece until the fold process was complete and it was completely off the screen, this can be seen below.

The second advanced transition I used was also applied at the start of the piece to a letter to flip it. To do this I had to enable 3D editing, to do this I clicked on the cube on the bar that appears above the list of layers. Both of these examples use the Y axis rotation which allows for the object to be spun around on the spot. In both instances I applied two keyframes and then at the first have the rotation as zero and at the second it was -180. However, in the actual transition I had two opacity keyframes at roughly the same points as the Y axis rotation ones and had it fade out as it rotated to reveal the next animation. Both of these examples can be seen below.
The final outcome of this workshop can be seen below.
After Effects Showreel from Ben Bowden on Vimeo.