Details
Adobe After Effects is a powerful tool for creating motion graphics. Motion graphics can be used to enhance videos or create animations. You can create simple 2D illustrations or even work in 3D.
This 3-day course will take you from absolute basics to rendering out your creations. You will create simple animations, puppet illustrations and come to understand core concepts.
Delivery Methods
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Discounts Available
Save up to 10% by booking and paying 10 business days before the course.
Brochure:
Information may change without notice.
Audience
Designers, videographers, illustrators or anyone interested in animation.
Pre-Requisites
None, but experience in Photoshop or Illustrator is useful
Course Outline / Curriculum
- Getting to Know the Workflow
- Getting started
- Creating a project and importing footage
- Creating a composition and arranging layers
- Adding effects and modifying layer properties
- Animating the composition
- Previewing your work
- Optimizing performance in After Effects
- Rendering and exporting your composition
- Customizing workspaces
- Controlling the brightness of the user interface
- Finding resources for using After Effects
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 2 Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
- Getting started
- Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
- Creating a new composition
- Working with imported Illustrator layers
- Applying effects to a layer
- Applying an animation preset
- Previewing the effects
- Adding transparency
- Rendering the composition
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Animating Text
- Getting started
- About text layers
- Installing a font using Adobe Fonts
- Creating and formatting point text
- Using a text animation preset
- Animating with scale keyframes
- Animating using parenting
- Animating imported Photoshop text
- Animating type tracking
- Animating text opacity
- Using a text animator group
- Animating a layer’s position
- Timing layer animations
- Adding motion blur
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Working with Shape Layers
- Getting started
- Creating the composition
- Adding a shape layer
- Applying a fill and stroke
- Creating a self-animating shape
- Duplicating a shape
- Creating custom shapes
- Positioning layers with snapping
- Snapping layers into position
- Animating a shape
- Animating fill color
- Creating nulls from paths
- Drawing curved shapes with the Pen tool
- Using nulls to connect points
- Previewing the composition
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Animating a Multimedia Presentation
- Getting started
- Adjusting anchor points
- Parenting layers
- Precomposing layers
- Keyframing a motion path
- Animating additional elements
- Applying an effect
- Animating precomposed layers
- Animating the background
- Adding an audio track
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Animating Layers
- Getting started
- Simulating lighting changes
- Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
- Animating movement in the scenery
- Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
- Animating the shadows
- Adding a lens flare effect
- Adding a video animation
- Rendering the animation
- Retiming the composition
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Working with Masks
- About masks
- Getting started
- Creating a mask with the Pen tool
- Editing a mask
- Feathering the edges of a mask
- Replacing the content of the mask
- Adding a reflection
- Creating a vignette
- Adjusting the timing
- Trimming the work area
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
- Getting started
- About the Puppet tools
- Adding Position pins
- Adding Advanced and Bend pins
- Stiffening an area
- Animating pin positions
- Using the Puppet tools to animate video
- Recording animation
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Using the Roto Brush Tool
- About rotoscoping
- Getting started
- Creating a segmentation boundary
- Fine-tuning the matte
- Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
- Changing the background
- Adding animated text
- Outputting your project
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Performing Color Correction
- Getting started
- Adjusting color balance with levels
- Adjusting color with the Lumetri Color effect
- Replacing the background
- Color-correcting using Auto Levels
- Motion tracking the clouds
- Replacing the sky in the second clip
- Color grading
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Creating Motion Graphics Templates
- Getting started
- Preparing a master composition
- Setting up a template
- Adding properties to the Essential Graphics panel
- Providing image options
- Protecting the timing of a section
- Exporting the template
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Using 3D Features
- Getting started
- Creating 3D text
- Using 3D views
- Importing a background
- Adding 3D lights
- Adding a camera
- Extruding text in After Effects
- Working with Cinema 4D Lite
- Integrating the C4D layer in After Effects
- Finishing the project
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
- About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
- Getting started
- Tracking the footage
- Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
- Creating additional text elements
- Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer
- Tidying the composition
- Adding a final object
- Creating realistic shadows
- Adding ambient light
- Adding an effect
- Previewing the composition
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Advanced Editing Techniques
- Getting started
- Stabilizing a shot
- Using single-point motion tracking
- Using multipoint tracking
- Creating a particle simulation
- Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Rendering and Outputting
- Getting started
- About rendering and output
- Exporting using the Render Queue
- Creating templates for the Render Queue
- Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
Schedule Dates and Booking
There are currently no scheduled dates.