So as you're thinking about what food or beverage or what day of the week you want to represent in your animation, the best place to start is with sketches. So you can see here I just did this page of sketches I was thinking about Monday, had some ideas for Friday. I also had some basic ideas for the animation process, you can see where I have the arrows going, that are representing the martini glass coming in and replacing the Y on Friday, I have some donut coffee, some sketches of a coffee cup, you know what that's gonna look like? olives flip in, you can see right there for the martini glass. So just do some really basic sketches. You can see my Tuesday sketches as well.
And they don't have to be pretty, they don't have to be super pieces of art, obviously, but just to get an idea. So once you have that idea down and you've decided to go with something, we're going to go with a coffee cup. Now you need to find some assets. You don't need to draw this from memory and the best thing to do is to not do from memory, I mean, professional artists me considering myself one of them, I don't draw a lot of stuff from memory, you need to have a reference. So the best place to go to a reference and to get references for me is unsplash. So if you go here to unsplash.com this is a site where these are all royalty free, you can use these images for whatever you'd like put on your website or whatever, but I use it a lot for finding reference images.
And we are looking for a coffee cup. So as you can see, I've already looked for it. So we're gonna put in copy here, search and we get all these. So what I want, I want a side view. So once you find one, like this one here, this one could work pretty good. Then you just hit download free, and it will download it you save it wherever you'd like.
I chose a different image to create mine, which I already have, but this would be a great one. If you're going to use the profile. I would like one to be a little bit lower than this And you'll see the one that I have is a little bit lower. So once you have that downloaded, then let's go to After Effects and you'll bring it in. So right here in this section if you don't have minus that it will just look like that. You can double click or you can do command I to import and then we browse to where we need to have saved ours.
Mine is here in the skill share, shape animation. Then there it is. So I opened that and brings it into right here and we're going to we've already if you haven't already created a composition right this button right here creates a new composition. So hit that name your call, whatever you like I'm doing 1920 by 1080 you can do it whatever size you want. I am doing about 24 from a frame rate. I like working with Just because when I blur it, I use camera motions or when I import it has that more natural feel, that's what movies are shot at is 24 frames a second, I have 15 seconds here, already have one made.
I'm just gonna take this and drop it into here. And it comes in huge. So we need to scale it down there's two ways you can scale it down s brings up your scale. And with this link already, you can go and read like with this, another way to scale it and do that Ctrl Z is to right click and go to transform. And then you can fit to comp to comp with that to call height, whatever you'd like. So you can try this out.
I just want to be able to see my entire mug cup here so it really doesn't matter. I mean I can move around and it doesn't matter that it's off the edge because we're not going to use this but also this button right here. I use a lot of the title action safe. Title action safe tells me that for a widescreen this out sideline. Anything outside this line, maybe cut off by your monitor. So this is the action area you you might see this you might not but keep all of your action inside this, your titles which are more important a lot of you're actually not going to have action happening at the edge of the screen.
It's vital to the story, but your titles need to stay inside the second line. The second line is it will most likely not be cut off if you've ever watched a program on a TV set. And you see some titles come up on the bottom and they're kind of cut off or you're not seeing the entire title that's because they not adhere to this rule of using the title action safe sales. So keep any words titles inside this inside one. So I for the most part I keep all of my titles and most of everything inside these just to be safe. So With our mug, we can move it around inside here.
And that's about the right size right inside there. And that's where we're going to start and we're going to leave that and start working on that. So once you get to this point, then we're going to move on to the next point and actually start tracing over this asset.