After Effects Scripts & Tips: 1 Animation Techniques

3h 31mAdvanced2017-07-10

Authors

Owen Lowery

Motion Graphics Artist and Animator

Course details

Discover tactics, tricks, and workarounds that can make working in After Effects easier and more fun. Owen Lowery introduces various free scripts that you can install for better functionality and faster workflow, discusses animation and design theory, and shows simple, effective ways to put that theory into practice. He guides you through several solutions to the kinds of common problems that new After Effects users tend to run into. Plus—as this course doesn't build from lesson to lesson—you can dive into whichever topic piques your interest.

Learning objectives
Installing and using scripts in After Effects
The laws of physics and rules of animation
Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle
Animating fast with Motion Sketch and Smoother
Fixing an anchor point
Working around expressions in a project
Quick stop motion style with Tickler
Using the Puppet tool outside of puppets

Skills covered

Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Course intro - Up your animation game, quick and simple
02 - Using this course

1. Awesome Free Scripts

03 - Installing and using scripts in after effects
04 - Animation Composer - Plugin
05 - Animation Composer - Extra scripts
06 - Duik for better keyframing
07 - Scale and rotate motion paths script
08 - First Vertex toolkit script
09 - Better layer & precomp organization withtrue comp duplicator & un-precompose scripts

2. Mograph Theory in Practice

10 - The laws of physics and rules of animation
11 - Easing motion with animation patterns script
12 - Creating follow-through, overlap, and secondary action with Dulk
13 - Animating squash and stretch
14 - Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle

3. Animation Quick Tips

15 - Animating fast with Motion Sketch and Smoother
16 - Linking animated properties with expression pickwhip
17 - A better scale zoom with exponential scale
18 - Creating camera shake

4. Common Problems and Quick Fixes

19 - Fixing an anchor point
20 - Quick timing adjustments with time-remap & duik morpher
21 - Working around expressions in a project

5. Quick Projects

22 - Quick stop motion style with Tickler
23 - Multi-layer animated presets with layer library
24 - Using the Puppet tool outside of puppets

Conclusion

25 - Next steps