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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

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.

Two Days

10:00 - 16:30 GMT

Private Options

Key Learning Points
Keyframe animation techniques for motion graphics
Create and animate text and graphics
Apply and manipulate visual effects
Work with animation principles and layers
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.

ACP Trainers

Course leader is an Adobe Certified Expert

Course Dates	Days	Location	Places	RRP	Discount	You Pay
4-5th Dec 25	Thu-Fri	London Bridge	Available	£499.00	£100.00	£399.00 + VAT
5-6th Jan 26	Mon-Tue	London Bridge	Available	£499.00	£70.00	£429.00 + VAT
12-13th Jan 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00	£120.00	£379.00 + VAT
28-29th Jan 26	Wed-Thu	London Bridge	Available	£499.00	£50.00	£449.00 + VAT
11-12th Feb 26	Wed-Thu	Online	Available	£499.00	£100.00	£399.00 + VAT
16-17th Feb 26	Mon-Tue	London Bridge	Available	£499.00	£20.00	£479.00 + VAT
9-10th Mar 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00	£20.00	£479.00 + VAT
23-24th Mar 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
9-10th Apr 26	Thu-Fri	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
20-21st Apr 26	Mon-Tue	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
7-8th May 26	Thu-Fri	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
28-29th May 26	Thu-Fri	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
15-16th Jun 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
25-26th Jun 26	Thu-Fri	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
13-14th Jul 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
21-22nd Jul 26	Tue-Wed	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
10-11th Aug 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
24-25th Aug 26	Mon-Tue	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
1-2nd Sep 26	Tue-Wed	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
21-22nd Sep 26	Mon-Tue	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT

Course Dates	Days	Location	Places	RRP	Discount	You Pay
4-5th Dec 25	Thu-Fri	London Bridge	Available	£499.00	£100.00	£399.00 + VAT
5-6th Jan 26	Mon-Tue	London Bridge	Available	£499.00	£70.00	£429.00 + VAT
28-29th Jan 26	Wed-Thu	London Bridge	Available	£499.00	£50.00	£449.00 + VAT
16-17th Feb 26	Mon-Tue	London Bridge	Available	£499.00	£20.00	£479.00 + VAT
20-21st Apr 26	Mon-Tue	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
28-29th May 26	Thu-Fri	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
25-26th Jun 26	Thu-Fri	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
21-22nd Jul 26	Tue-Wed	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
24-25th Aug 26	Mon-Tue	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
21-22nd Sep 26	Mon-Tue	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
29-30th Oct 26	Thu-Fri	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
18-19th Nov 26	Wed-Thu	London Bridge	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT

Course Dates	Days	Location	Places	RRP	Discount	You Pay
12-13th Jan 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00	£120.00	£379.00 + VAT
11-12th Feb 26	Wed-Thu	Online	Available	£499.00	£100.00	£399.00 + VAT
9-10th Mar 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00	£20.00	£479.00 + VAT
23-24th Mar 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
9-10th Apr 26	Thu-Fri	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
7-8th May 26	Thu-Fri	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
15-16th Jun 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
13-14th Jul 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
10-11th Aug 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
1-2nd Sep 26	Tue-Wed	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
12-13th Oct 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
5-6th Nov 26	Thu-Fri	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT
23-24th Nov 26	Mon-Tue	Online	Available	£499.00		£499.00 + VAT

Course Dates

4-5th Dec 25 (Thu-Fri)

Location:London Bridge

Places: Available

RRP: £499.00

Discount: £100.00

You Pay: £399.00 + VAT

5-6th Jan 26 (Mon-Tue)

Location:London Bridge

Places: Available

RRP: £499.00

Discount: £70.00

You Pay: £429.00 + VAT

12-13th Jan 26 (Mon-Tue)

Location:Online

Places: Available

RRP: £499.00

Discount: £120.00

You Pay: £379.00 + VAT

28-29th Jan 26 (Wed-Thu)

Location:London Bridge

Places: Available

RRP: £499.00

Discount: £50.00

You Pay: £449.00 + VAT

11-12th Feb 26 (Wed-Thu)

Location:Online

Places: Available

RRP: £499.00

Discount: £100.00

You Pay: £399.00 + VAT

16-17th Feb 26 (Mon-Tue)

Location:London Bridge

Places: Available

RRP: £499.00

Discount: £20.00

You Pay: £479.00 + VAT

9-10th Mar 26 (Mon-Tue)

Location:Online

Places: Available

RRP: £499.00

Discount: £20.00

You Pay: £479.00 + VAT

23-24th Mar 26 (Mon-Tue)

Location:Online

Places: Available

RRP: £499.00

Discount:

You Pay: £499.00 + VAT

9-10th Apr 26 (Thu-Fri)

Location:Online

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You Pay: £499.00 + VAT

20-21st Apr 26 (Mon-Tue)

Location:London Bridge

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You Pay: £499.00 + VAT

Course Outline

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

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

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

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

Keyframes - A Deeper Look

Hold keyframes

Reversing animation the right way - avoiding Bezier twists

Roving keyframes

Auto orientation

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

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

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

Rendering

Rendering & Media Encoder - Best Practices

Questions and answers

Wolf's passion for his craft really made the course engaging!

Neil was very friendly, approachable and knowledge

Explaining what After Effects is

Easy to follow along, great examples and learnt the basics to feel confident.

Excellent training course on a very complex software. trainer (tom) was really helpful and attentive.

Everything, an especially good pace for a beginner like me.

The course was great, can't fault it!

Great examples and check ins with us making sure we were understanding what we were being taught

Dedication, patience, friendliness and professional.

Clear explanations and easy to follow

Explaining everything throughly while making sure everyone was understanding everything

Actually doing the project live with the trainer, helped pick up any mistakes that outside of this I would not have known I was making

Knowledgeable tutors and free lunch!

Really in-depth knowledge and tailored to what we were doing and using it for and made it really simple and easy to follow.

Good communication, information/assets given early and really friendly trainer

Trainer was exceptional at teaching this course- clear and very helpful!

Completing the assignments and following the guidances, more to practice and experiment:)

Really friendly staff members, easy to follow and great set up

Very organised course with great projects laid out that I was keen to learn.

Good pace, clear instructions, lovely people, good food.

Excellent and very patient trainer! Good location. Very clean facilities.

Showing how to do things in multiple ways i.e. showing a menu method and a shortcut/hotkey method of performing the same task.

The instructor was patient and very well knowledgable. His examples and the animations we learnt are great as a foundation to the application.

Course clarity, experience of the centre - all very good and very professional

Wolf is knowledgeable, not to mention personable and funny.

Patience and knowledge

Very knowledgable trainer. Food was pretty bangin'

Really great course, thanks Neil!

Neil was great

Everyone was very friendly and helpful - food was great

Explaining the application from the start. Good teaching

Lovely venue, lovely tutor!

Calming presence, great resource files and tutorials were easily to follow along too. Iwan was extremely helpful!

Great pace of training and lots of good content covered. Always happy to answer questions.

Patience and willingness to answer any queries

Clean facilities, friendly staff, small class size with lots of personal attention from instructor. :)

Pace of lessons

Course tutor was very knowledgeable Pre-course emails were good

Great structure to each training session, fully explained with examples and time for Q&A's tailored to ours roles/experiences.

Wolf was great :) and really funny :) great to be taught by him again :).

Wolf was a great instructor, very knowledgeable and engaging

Wolf was very engaging and good at explaining things.

Learning shortcuts which cuts the times in half

Such good examples and really good practical applications given.

The pace of the class, variety of skills learnt. Patience of the Iwan. Lunch was also delish, and I really appreciated the few coffee and snacks.

Great examples, Friendly attitude, very knowlegable

Provided good amount of information to help us get started :) Thank you!

Lovely lunch and snacks, and a really great instructor! really knowledgable and made everyone feel at ease!

Good examples with very clear instrcution and a good pacie to the instruction

Clear examples and easy to follow guides. Having course material that could be downloaded before the course started made it easy to follow along.

Jason was extremely clear and very patient with people that may not understand it the first time.

Iwan has been a great teacher, thank you!

Fantastic organisation, and venue! Keep it up!

All the exercises were well set up and useful! the teacher was great. very knowledgeable and encouraging

Explaining different ways of doing things quicker.

Very good at explaining things and correcting issues if we went wrong, as well as tailoring the course to the groups requirements

Tailoring content to students based on our background

Very knowledgeable trainer and really engaging. Got loads from the course

Making you feel welcome

Teaching was excellent

Friendly and so helpful

Reception and teaching

Amazing, thorough explanation of the interface and its uses. follow allow tutorials built my confidence in using the program.

Very knowledgeable. Easy process signing up and completing the course. Nice class sizes.

Going over every aspect of the software that others normally skip over

Taking complex topics and distilling them

Very good course to be hands on with instructor in terms of adapting to your course. Lots of breaks and snacks!

Neil was very patient with clear instructions and extremely helpful!

Easy to find, well organised and a great course. Everything was easy to use and lets of ways to take notes

Overall vibe is amazing, as a learning environment, top shelf!

Very good and informative. I feel it gave me really good basis. Good vibe all around :)

The teacher was great and knowledgeable, taught it in a really good way

An excellent course, venue and staff! I'll be back

Wolf was great, engaging, knowledgable and helpful throughout the whole course! Thank you Wolf :)

Engaging presenter with lots of knowledge

Giving strong foundation in terms of good working practicing.

Really strong technical knowledge,

Reception / information prior to the event and the hospitality. Course trainer was extremely helpful, patient.

Very thorough, easy to understand lessons, helpful and supportive trainer

Delivering the information in an easy way and the centre is amazing

Covering basics with good explanations, good pacing and trainer was very accommodating.

Delivering and demonstrating how to use media is well done.

All of it! Neil the Trainer was amazing!

Tom was very good at explaining and super helpful

Explaining complex ideas, simply

Knowledgeable across all adobe suites

Great venue, friendly staff, Knowledgeable trainer.

Great tutor, nice group, nice pace to learning. Thank you Ivan the man!

Eating the biscuits!

Amazing training. Thank you!

Excellent trainer, went at a really good pace and I learned a lot more than I thought I would for an introduction course.

Fantastic trainer, so knowledgable and helpful. REally reassuring, easy to follow and was happy to answer questions

Really great course, so much covered in such a short time.

Comprehensive course that cover the basics of Ae. good place to start.

Small class size meant ability to get immediate feedback and help from the teacher. Excellent course, would recommend.

Loved the class size, Trainer was very patient and knowledgeable, course was comprehensive, food was great.

The course trainer tailored our course to our specific requirements & explained all of the processes with clear detail & communication

Patient with questions

Breaking things down to make it easy to digest and understand while being patient.

Excellent trainers

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Course Dates

4-5th Dec 25 (Thu-Fri)

5-6th Jan 26 (Mon-Tue)

12-13th Jan 26 (Mon-Tue)

28-29th Jan 26 (Wed-Thu)

11-12th Feb 26 (Wed-Thu)

16-17th Feb 26 (Mon-Tue)

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25-26th Jun 26 (Thu-Fri)

13-14th Jul 26 (Mon-Tue)

21-22nd Jul 26 (Tue-Wed)

10-11th Aug 26 (Mon-Tue)

24-25th Aug 26 (Mon-Tue)

1-2nd Sep 26 (Tue-Wed)

21-22nd Sep 26 (Mon-Tue)

12-13th Oct 26 (Mon-Tue)

29-30th Oct 26 (Thu-Fri)

5-6th Nov 26 (Thu-Fri)

18-19th Nov 26 (Wed-Thu)

23-24th Nov 26 (Mon-Tue)

Course Outline

Getting Started

Animating

Adding Effects

Best Practices & Importing Different Files

Keyframes - A Deeper Look

Track Mattes & Masks

Creating a Basic Logo

Text and Titles

Rendering

Questions and answers

Who attends?

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Graduates

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