Creating After Effects Templates
1h 40mIntermediate2020-04-22
Authors
Nick Harauz
Certified Adobe, Apple, and Avid Trainer
Course details
Learn how to automate your motion graphics workflow—and package your designs for distribution—by building projects procedurally through After Effects templates. After Effects has a complete toolset for creating intelligent, time-saving templates that you can reuse, share, and even sell online. In this course, veteran instructor Nick Harauz takes you through the ins and outs of creating .mogrt templates via the After Effects Essential Graphics panel. Learn how to previsualize templates, add and reveal design parameters, use expressions, export your templates, and test them in Premiere Pro. Nick also explains the things you should consider before selling your mograph templates on a platform like Adobe Stock.
Topics include:
Planning a template
Adding and linking parameters
Using expressions
Exporting and testing templates
Creating an animated multi-title template
Linking source text layers
CSV files and templates
Submitting templates to Adobe Stock
Topics include:
Planning a template
Adding and linking parameters
Using expressions
Exporting and testing templates
Creating an animated multi-title template
Linking source text layers
CSV files and templates
Submitting templates to Adobe Stock
Skills covered
Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - The importance of procedural graphics
- 02 - What you should know
1. After Effects Template Essentials
- 03 - What is a .mogrt file
- 04 - Previsualizing a template
- 05 - Organize your AE project
- 06 - Work in the Essential Graphics panel
- 07 - Reveal and add supported parameters
- 08 - Linking parameters
- 09 - Expressions you need to know for templates
- 10 - Keep animations safe with protected regions
- 11 - Export and test motion graphic templates
- 12 - Notes for selling your template
2. Create an Animated Muti-Title Template
- 13 - Choose a color theme with Adobe Color
- 14 - Select a typeface from Adobe Fonts
- 15 - Create a title animation
- 16 - Troubleshoot and link source text layers
- 17 - Create the final animation
- 18 - Choose which parameters to send
- 19 - Create a drop-down menu
- 20 - CSV files and templates
- 21 - Export the motion graphics template
- 22 - Submit templates to Adobe Stock
Conclusion
- 23 - Next steps