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Create stunning motion graphics, visual effects and animations using After Effects.

Learn with industry experts in our London classrooms or live online.

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After Effects Intro

After Effects Intro

Unlock the world of visual storytelling with our Introduction to Adobe After Effects course. Gain hands-on experience in creating captivating motion graphics, stunning visual effects and dynamic animations.

Learn essential techniques and tools from industry experts empowering you to enhance your creativity and career prospects. This beginner’s course provides the perform foundation in After Effects enabling you to bring your ideas to life and stand out in the competitive media and design industry.

Join us and embark on an exciting journey of artistic expression.

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Two Days

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10:00 - 16:30 GMT

  • Key Learning Points

  • icon Keyframe animation techniques for motion graphics
  • icon Create and animate text and graphics
  • icon Apply and manipulate visual effects
  • icon Work with animation principles and layers
  • icon Export and render for various platforms

If attending an online course you must have a licensed copy of any software required and access to a suitable computer.

You need no previous experience to attend this course.

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Course leader is an Adobe Certified Expert

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Course Outline

1

Getting Started

Workspaces - selecting a layout and resetting the windows

The Project window, timeline and viewer

Setting Up Your Database & folder structure

Creating Compositions - Comp settings

Essential viewer window settings

Creating assets within AE

Arranging objects in the viewport

How layers work in the timeline window

Object properties - the basics - Position, Scale, Rotation, Anchor Point and Opacity

2

Animating

Manipulating object transforms

Navigating the timeline, playing scrubbing and zooming

Simple animation - your first keyframes

Position animation and Bezier curves

Manipulating keyframes

Using the keyframe navigator

Adding ease to improve animation quality

Copying and pasting keyframes

Proportional scaling of keyframes on the timeline

Using hotkeys to reveal keyframes and properties

Adding Motion Blur - Adjusting the global motion blur settings

3

Adding Effects

The effect controls palette

Ensuring that you explore effects completely - good workflow practices

How effects work with keyframes

Combining effects together

Adjustment layers

4

Best Practices & Importing Different Files

Exploring the interface in more detail, switches, modes and time controls

Ensuring correct workflow vector files

The collapse transformations switch

Importing video footage

Trimming and time manipulation of layers

Sorting, finding and working with assets in the project window

Importing Photoshop files

Importing Illustrator files

Layer modes

PreComps - Why Precomps are vital

Sending Projects To Others

5

Keyframes - A Deeper Look

Hold keyframes

Reversing animation the right way - avoiding Bezier twists

Roving keyframes

Auto orientation

6

Track Mattes & Masks

Track Matte Types - Luma & Alpha

Editing masks

Using masks to reveal and hide layers

Animating Masks

Other mask uses for paths and effect controls

7

Creating a Basic Logo

Anchor point issues

Pre-composing base elements for better workflow

Adding effects to build our sequence

Parenting Layers

A simple expression - Wiggle

How Wiggle works - what the numbers do

8

Text and Titles

Using basic presets as a start point

Text presets - a special case

Creating your own text animators

Saving text animators as a preset

9

Rendering

Rendering & Media Encoder - Best Practices

10

Questions and answers

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