Necessary skills for FMP

I need to develop my After Effects skills because I haven't used it very much before. This will mean I can present my idea, the transitions, and the games themselves. I also need to do green screen.  Below is the sort of effect I'm going for for the first-person segment of my film/advert. I'll need to superimpose copyright free green screen effects into After Effects. The way I'll go about learning these skills is advice from tutors, youtube tutorials, and practise/test footage

For the beginning and end (if Planet Games don't get in touch), this is the effect I will use. There are two ways of doing it: the way which will be easier and more effective is using After Effects headtracking software, which I would have to go about finding how to do this with tutorials. I could do it frame by frame on Photoshop too as I have used a similar technique on a previous project this year (The Agents). If these don't work or take too long I can use an actual box and draw on it.

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If I cannot figure out After Effects and get to grips with the software for teleporting into the game I will have one shot with the character in front of the computer and a shot with the character gone, but the ideal effect I want if I can get to grips with After Effects would be a shot of the character minimising and getting pulled towards the computer



For the first-person segment I plan to use Flash and I may have to use photoshop to 3D animate the target popping up. They will pop out from behind trees.




I plan to use Flash for the platformer scene. I'll have to learn how to take the green screen background out of the photos before I animate the scene. If this does not look quite right, I'll have to see what other software will enable me to do this.

If Planet Games don't get back to me, for the ending, I'll have to create the characters that escape from the screen on Photoshop or maybe use the WACOM tablet. I might also have to learn how to pixelate some people on Photoshop or whichever program allows it.

The levelling up section will be the transition between each game. I will try to create the logo on Photoshop and then make a game menu (also on Photoshop but animated on Flash) so it looks like a game is being selected and then played.