Become a Motion Graphics Designer with Adobe After Effects
After Effects is the software professionals use to create amazing, sometimes dazzling motion graphics. It's used in a vast number of industries, including TV, web and film.
In this course, we will learn how the foundations of this versatile application work. We will start from scratch, with a blank project and start building our own animations. We will also cover the close integration between After Effects and Illustrator.
With this hands-on training course, you will learn all the tips and tricks that the professional designers use to create eye-catching motion graphics.
You will master keyframes and become an expert in using the dreaded graph editor. You will also learn how to use After Effects to create 3D compositions.
This masterclass is designed for complete beginners, but even if you are a seasoned After Effects user, we promise you will learn countless tricks that you wish you knew before! You will learn about speeding up your workflow, fixing shaky footage, effects and text animation.
After Effects offers a number of built-in presets when it comes to animating. As well as exploring these presets, we will be learning how to create our own custom presets and animations.
You will also learn how motion tracking works by attaching a piece of graphic or text to a live action video and mask it to make it believable.
If you are ready to step into the world of animated graphics and visual effects, then let's get started.
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Course Outline
Here's what you'll learn in more detail
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Importing Assets into Your After Effects Project & Navigating
- Importing Standard Files
- Importing Layered Files
- Updating an Imported Layer
- Navigating Around FREE PREVIEW
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Working with the Timeline in After Effects
- Layer Switches
- Intro to Layer Transform Controls FREE PREVIEW
- Position
- Scale and Rotation
- Anchor Point
- Opacity
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Intro to After Effects Compositions
- Creating a Composition
- Composition Settings
- Background Colour FREE PREVIEW
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Working with Solids in After Effects
- Creating and Editing Solids
- Layer Alignment and Distribution
- Working with Guides and Grids FREE PREVIEW
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7
Animation in After Effects
- Intro to Keyframes
- More Keyframes
- Editing Keyframes FREE PREVIEW
- Timing Layers
- Pausing an Animation
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Motion Paths in After Effects
- Intro to Motion Paths
- Motion Sketch FREE PREVIEW
- Fixing the Orientation
- Using Paths from Illustrator
- Rove Across Time
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9
Creating a Link Between Layers
- Intro to Parenting
- Animating Linked Layers FREE PREVIEW
- Working with Pre-comps
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10
Keyframe Interpolation
- Different Types of Keyframes FREE PREVIEW
- Intro to Graph Editor
- Undershoot and Overshoot
- Keyframe Velocity
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Text Animation in After Effects
- Setting up the Composition
- Creating Text
- Animating Text with Standard Keyframes
- Text Animation Presets
- Custom Text Animators and Range Selectors
- Combining Multiple Selectors and Properties FREE PREVIEW
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3D Compositions in After Effects
- Intro to the Third Dimension FREE PREVIEW
- Understanding the 3D Axis
- The Updated 3D Axis in CC2021
- Navigating in 3D Space
- Updated 3D Navigation in CC2021 FREE PREVIEW
- Snapping in 3D
- Working with Multiple Views FREE PREVIEW
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15
Other 3D Objects
- Working with Lights
- Working with Cameras FREE PREVIEW
- Two-node Cameras
- Depth of Field
- Switching Cameras
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Working with Cinema 4D Lite
- Launching Cinema 4D Through After Effects
- Introduction to Cinema 4Ds Interface
- Navigating in 3D Space
- Working with Parametric Objects
- Move, Scale, Rotate
- Object Properties
- Creating Custom 3D Shapes
- Rendering a Text Spline
- Using Cinema 4D Lights
- Using Materials
- Using the Cinema 4D File in After Effects
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Working with Effects
- Introduction to Effects
- Keyframing Effects
- Colour Correcting with Lumetri Color
- Using Animation Presets and Transitions
- Blending Modes FREE PREVIEW
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20
Masks in After Effects
- Introduction to Masks
- Working with the Pen Tool FREE PREVIEW
- Compositing Text with Masks
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Adjustment Layers in After Effects
- Intro to Adjustment Layers
- Masking Adjustment Layers FREE PREVIEW
- Intro to Rotoscoping
- Introduction to Roto Brush
- Refining the Roto Brush Results
- Selectively Applying Effects
- Content Aware Fill
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Motion Tracking in After Effects
- Intro to Motion Tracking FREE PREVIEW
- Stabilising Motion
- Warp Stabilizer
- Tracking Masks
- 3D Camera Tracker
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Using Photoshop and Illustrator for Animation
- Taking a Hand Drawn Sketch into Photoshop for Cleanup
- Bringing the Sketch into Illustrator
- Tracing the Sketch in Illustrator
- Creating the rest of the illustration
- Preparing the File for After Effects
- Animating the Illustration in After Effects
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Exporting
- Exporting Directly from After Effects
- Using Adobe Media Encoder
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