1-2nd Sep 26
Tue-Wed
Build motion graphics and visual effects from scratch on this two-day After Effects course.
Adobe Certified Experts guide you through keyframes, effects and compositing.
Build motion graphics and visual effects from scratch on this two-day After Effects course. Adobe Certified Experts guide you through keyframes, effects and compositing.
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.
Once you've completed this course, After Effects Intermediate covers advanced compositing, expressions and 3D layers.
| Course Dates | Days | Location | Places | RRP | Discount | You Pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-2nd Sep 26 | Tue-Wed | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £150.00 | £399.00 + VAT | |
| 21-22nd Sep 26 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £120.00 | £429.00 + VAT | |
| 7-8th Oct 26 | Wed-Thu | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £100.00 | £449.00 + VAT | |
| 28-29th Oct 26 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £70.00 | £479.00 + VAT | |
| 11-12th Nov 26 | Wed-Thu | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 30th Nov - 1st Dec 26 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 10-11th Dec 26 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 11-12th Jan 27 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 28-29th Jan 27 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 10-11th Feb 27 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 4-5th Mar 27 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 15-16th Mar 27 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 8-9th Apr 27 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 19-20th Apr 27 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 10-11th May 27 | Mon-Tue | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 26-27th May 27 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 10-11th Jun 27 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 21-22nd Jun 27 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 13-14th Jul 27 | Tue-Wed | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 28-29th Jul 27 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT |
| Course Dates | Days | Location | Places | RRP | Discount | You Pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-2nd Sep 26 | Tue-Wed | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £150.00 | £399.00 + VAT | |
| 7-8th Oct 26 | Wed-Thu | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £100.00 | £449.00 + VAT | |
| 11-12th Nov 26 | Wed-Thu | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 10-11th Dec 26 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 28-29th Jan 27 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 4-5th Mar 27 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 8-9th Apr 27 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 10-11th May 27 | Mon-Tue | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 10-11th Jun 27 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 13-14th Jul 27 | Tue-Wed | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 16-17th Aug 27 | Mon-Tue | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT |
| Course Dates | Days | Location | Places | RRP | Discount | You Pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-22nd Sep 26 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £120.00 | £429.00 + VAT | |
| 28-29th Oct 26 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £70.00 | £479.00 + VAT | |
| 30th Nov - 1st Dec 26 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 11-12th Jan 27 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 10-11th Feb 27 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 15-16th Mar 27 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 19-20th Apr 27 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 26-27th May 27 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 21-22nd Jun 27 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 28-29th Jul 27 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT |
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Available as private, bespoke or team training at our centre, live online, or at your venue. Customise the outline, train as a group, or book a one-to-one with an expert.
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Private & team training
Available as private, bespoke or team training at our centre, live online, or at your venue. Customise the outline, train as a group, or book a one-to-one with an expert.
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
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
The effect controls palette
Ensuring that you explore effects completely - good workflow practices
How effects work with keyframes
Combining effects together
Adjustment layers
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
Hold keyframes
Reversing animation the right way - avoiding Bezier twists
Roving keyframes
Auto orientation
Track Matte Types - Luma & Alpha
Editing masks
Using masks to reveal and hide layers
Animating Masks
Other mask uses for paths and effect controls
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
Using basic presets as a start point
Text presets - a special case
Creating your own text animators
Saving text animators as a preset
Rendering & Media Encoder - Best Practices
Suited to designers, animators, marketers and video editors who want to add motion graphics and visual effects to their work. No prior After Effects experience required.
Really good and thorough coverage of the basics of After Effects.
Explaining things thoroughly and making sure we all understood what was going on before moving ahead.
Easy to follow step by step course, Tom was very insightful and took the time to explain everything.
Very knowledgable and helpful, showing good examples and changing content, exmaples and requests to us on the fly based on our very specifi…
Tom was very insightful and easy to follow. Great course and can't wait to apply it to real life.
Foundations, applying the course to the real world. Great exampples. Thorough knowledge and well taught.
In depth explaining and going through things along with answering questions and making sure everyone was on the same page.
Really good overview of the interface and principles of the programme.
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