After Effects CC 2022 Essential Training
4h 22mBeginner2022-03-08
Authors
Alan Demafiles
Motion Designer, 3D Generalist, Editor, Compositor
Course details
If you’re looking to create motion graphics or visual effects, After Effects is the most widely-used tool to help you realize your creativity on screen. After Effects is the standard across several industries, and its work is seen on countless screens, big and small, across the globe. In this course, motion designer and 3D animator Alan Demafiles teaches you the essentials of After Effects, including its powerful shape layer tools, dynamic type animators, visual effect workflows, 3D compositing workspace, and much more. Join Alan in this course to find out how you can use After Effects to express your creativity and engage audiences with motion graphics and visual effects.
Skills covered
Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeAdobeEssential TrainingAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
Introduction
- After Effects essential training
- Before we start
- Using the exercise files
Working with Layers and Shapes
- Shape layer overview
- Transformation levels
- Shape layers vs. masks
- Repeating elements
- Path operators
- Precomposing and nesting
- Collapse transformations
- Blending modes
Animating in After Effects
- Understanding keyframe interpolations
- Adding and adjusting keys
- Using the Graph Editor - Speed
- Using the Graph Editor - Value
- Altering speeds with time remapping
- Anchor point fundamentals
- Parenting
- Using expressions to loop animation
- Essential Graphics panel
- Essential properties
Creating Transparency for Compositing
- Creating and animating masks
- Using track mattes
- Using the Roto Brush tool
- Mocha AE crash course
- Keylight 101
Working with Type
- Activating Adobe fonts
- Using the type tool
- Using text animators
Working with Effects
- Working with effects
- Introducing the Puppet tool
- Limiting effects with mask references
- Content-Aware Fill
Basic After Effects 3D
- Intro concepts to 3D in After Effects
- 3D navigation
- Cameras and lights
- 3D layer properties
3D Geometry
- Intro to Cinema4D renderer
- Creating extruded 3D text
- Creating extruded 3D shapes
- Cinema4D Lite overview
- Using Cineware
Working with Trackers
- Point tracking
- Warp Stabilizer
- Mocha AE planar tracking
- Camera tracking
Rendering
- Export to disk using the Render Queue
- Rendering with Media Encoder
Conclusion
- Next steps