The “LATCH” series was five assignments that served as exercises to teach us various aspects of animation, as well as the tools of AfterEffects. We were given a series of shapes or names for each one, and were to arrange them by:
Location
Alphabetical order
Time
Category
Hierarchy
While these may have been long and tedious to do as a first-timer at AfterEffects, I love the idea behind these assignments. I really feel like I became much more confident with AE through these.
You could definitely charge me with a bit of laziness with these, as I do feel guilty with treating a few of them more like exercises than assignments. This is especially obvious in some of them, such as the ‘A’ video. It simply didn’t occur to me to add much of a creative flair beyond simply putting the terms in order, and I still regret this.