After Effects for Beginners Complete Intro to After Effects
What you’ll learn
Get curious about After Effects and hungry to learn more
Improve the quality of Your videos by adding animations
Establish a healthy understanding of motion graphics
Use After Effects fluently and understand advanced tutorials
Transition from a graphic designer to a graphic design & motion artist
Requirements
After Effects CS5, CS 5.5, CS6, CC, CC2015, CC2017 installed. (You can use a 30-day free trial)
Ready to start thinking animation-like to turn graphics into motion
Basic knowledge of the Adobe Suite is not mandatory, but welcome
Willing to learn animation software
Description
This course will teach you all neccesary & most used After Effects tools, a proper workflow, show you real-life examples of animating and various tricks in the program. Watch the above promo video for detailed explanation. This is your one-stop guidance & shortcut to professional motion graphic design.
Project files included, free to use in your own workThe [WORKSHOP] section will make sure you stay current and up-to-date with new design trends as I will be adding my tutorials there
In this course I want to teach you everything you need to know to start working in After Effects and becomming a motion graphic artist. We will start with the program interface, going on with keyframing and later creating our first animations. This will be a basic course making a great intro to the motion design world. It doesn’t matter if you use After Effects CS6 or After Effects CC (we work on CC 2015, but informations about both are covered).
You don’t have to work for Warner Bros right away, but with help of this After Effects course you will be able to prepare simple animations to spice up Your YouTube channel, videos, land more work with clients by expanding your skillset, get creative with your 2D content, be confident that you can use Photoshop / Illustrator files and create animations out of them, produce seamless animations and more.
Some of the things that will be covered during the course:
Motion Graphics basicsAfter Effects program layout and basicsWorking with different types of layersCreating our first few animationsSimple kinetic typography to useReal-life examples of lower thirds, logo animations & moreCross-usage between Photoshop / IllustratorHow to add effects to our compositionsPrecomposing, matting, exporting, renderingTons of often used tricks and keyboard shortcuts…the list goes on.
Knowing After Effects is a lucrative skill to have which is in demand especially in 2015 / 2016 and ongoing years where video will grow as the most published type of content across the web.
So why & for what is After Effects used actually:
Improve video quality,Spice up videos with smooth animations,Industry standard for animating (TV Shows, News, Video content),Enhancing Youtube channels content,…the list is endless.
This course will kickstart your After Effects journey and you will realize that After Effects is and will be one of the most important tools on the market regarding animation & video editing. I want help you achieve your creative goals, wether it’s enhancing your Youtube channel, promoting your business or starting your mograph (motion graphics design) career.
So what are you waiting for…Enroll Now!
Overview
Section 1: Let’s Roll – Introduction to the course
Lecture 1 Introduction to the content
Lecture 2 [DOWNLOAD PROJECT FILES HERE]
Lecture 3 What is Motion Graphics & After Effects?
Lecture 4 Terminology in Video Editing
Lecture 5 EXERCISE: Prepare your first movie!
Section 2: Core Elements – Getting started with After Effects
Lecture 6 After Effects Interface
Lecture 7 Preferences & memory size
Lecture 8 Adding & Organizing Assets
Lecture 9 Import .PSD files properly
Lecture 10 Import .AI files properly
Lecture 11 Relinking missing assets
Lecture 12 Composition settings
Lecture 13 EXERCISE: Prepare a Quick Title with Burn Film Effect
Section 3: Workflow – Essential tools & practices
Lecture 14 The Timeline – Pt. 1
Lecture 15 The Timeline – Pt. 2
Lecture 16 Properties
Lecture 17 Pre-Composing
Lecture 18 Crop Composition to any size with Region of Interest
Lecture 19 Keyframing & Interpolation
Lecture 20 Keyframes in action – Create a simple transition
Lecture 21 Parenting
Lecture 22 Previewing
Lecture 23 Rendering
Lecture 24 Copy Keyframes Between Layers
Lecture 25 EXCERCISE: Prepare a simple Logo Intro
Section 4: Shape Layers
Lecture 26 Creating Text layers
Lecture 27 Creating Solid layers
Lecture 28 Creating Shape Layers
Lecture 29 Shape Layers – Rearranging and adding properties
Lecture 30 Changing Amount of Points
Lecture 31 Masks & Masking
Lecture 32 Blending Modes
Lecture 33 Track Mattes
Lecture 34 EXERCISE: Prepare a Custom Transition!
Section 5: Animation
Lecture 35 Animation
Lecture 36 Easing Keyframes
Lecture 37 Motion Blur
Lecture 38 Graph Editor
Lecture 39 Null Object
Lecture 40 Basic Expressions
Lecture 41 Working with Audio
Lecture 42 EXCERCISE: Create a circle with appearing text
Section 6: Effects & Presets
Lecture 43 Using Effects & their order
Lecture 44 Different Layers for Different FX
Lecture 45 Adjustment Layers
Lecture 46 Masking out effects
Lecture 47 EXERCISE: Create an Audio Spectrum
Section 7: Other most used techniques (Bit more advanced)
Lecture 48 Transparent videos
Lecture 49 Time Remapping (Slow Motion)
Lecture 50 Stabilizing shaky camera footage
Lecture 51 Color keying (Aka. Green Screen)
Lecture 52 Motion Tracking
Lecture 53 Exporting and copying Compositions between Projects
Lecture 54 Basic Camera Usage
Section 8: WORKSHOP: All you’ve learned in use!
Lecture 55 Create a Lower Third
Lecture 56 Create a Typographic Animation
Lecture 57 Create a Logo Transition
Lecture 58 Create a Minimal Title Animation
Lecture 59 Create a Cross Animation
Lecture 60 Creating a pattern over another object with Repeater
Lecture 61 Simple One Line Title Animation
Lecture 62 The Power of Puppet Pin Tool!
Lecture 63 Motion elements with CC Cylinder
Lecture 64 Stroke Animation
Section 9: BONUS: Design an outstanding Stroke Animation
Lecture 65 Select Font and Create Outlines
Lecture 66 Prepare and pre-compose Layers
Lecture 67 Applying Effects
Lecture 68 Select Color and Fill the Letter
Lecture 69 Watch another letter from beginning
Lecture 70 Workflow Tips
Lecture 71 Finalizing and polishing the project
Section 10: BONUS: Explainer Videos in After Effects
Lecture 72 Introduction
Lecture 73 Selecting a topic
Lecture 74 Selecting appropriate graphics
Lecture 75 Animating the icons
Lecture 76 Rove across time and use Null objects!
Lecture 77 Bonus – Creating a Voice Over
Lecture 78 Craft your story – Advanced trick!
Lecture 79 Creating a Transition
Lecture 80 Creating a Text Scene
Lecture 81 Final project
Section 11: Little tips & updates
Lecture 82 Change amount of edges in shapes
Lecture 83 Dividing, multiplying and adding values
Section 12: Conclusion
Lecture 84 Thank You!
Lecture 85 Bonus lecture
Course Creators, YouTubers, anyone wanting to incorporate animation into videos,Graphic designers & Freelancers looking to learn motion graphics and VFX,Everyone wanting to start out with animation software,Users interested in motion graphics,Adobe suite users wanting to learn & work in After Effects
Course Information:
Udemy | English | 6h 55m | 2.94 GB
Created by: Andrew Pach
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