2013
Digital Tutors
Laura Smith
05:10:00
English

In this series of tutorials, we will learn how to create a shot composite from start to finish. This course will take you through all of the things that you need to know to get started creating beautiful and realistic composites in After Effects. We begin with simply learning how to move around in After Effects and what the most important parts of the interface are. We then move onto bringing assets into our project panel and moving through the layer based compositing workflow. We do everything in this shot from crashing a helicopter, to setting it on fire, to giving the shot a cinematic feel like you see in a movie. You'll also learn how to track, rotoscope, and create a difference matte among other countless valuable skills. Whether you are a total beginner, or you know a little bit about After Effects but want to brush up on your skills, this is the course for you. By the end of this course, you will have an amazing new skill and you will have learned some valuable things if you are going to become a serious and professional compositor.

01. Introduction and project overview 01:07
02. Navigating the interface 04:28
03. Importing assets to the Project Panel 09:37
04. Working with image sequences versus compressed footage 05:01
05. Creating your first composition 09:10
06. Adding layers to the timeline and previewing them 13:27
07. Pass compositing 03:46
08. Setting keyframes and adding effects 10:23
09. Creating precompositions 10:40
10. Organizing the Project panel 05:17
11. Tracking images 12:06
12. Applying tracking data and parenting 13:09
13. Creating a mask 13:31
14. Using an alpha pass 11:54
15. Difference matting and garbage masking 17:33
16. Speed masking 13:51
17. Blending modes and collapse transformations 15:23
18. Tracking for parallax 13:33
19. Finishing tracking and applying data for parallax 05:05
20. Color correction 10:57
21. Adding reflections 05:32
22. Rotoscoping the reflections 07:53
23. Troubleshooting with the Project panel 06:17
24. Secondary track for a lens flare 05:30
25. Applying a lens flare with After Effects Lens Flare Effect 09:35
26. Applying a lens flare 12:14
27. Creating heat distortion with the Liquify effect 11:45
28. Faking depth of field 08:16
29. Overall depth of field and motion blur 05:41
30. Shot color correction 04:19
31. Filter-flare ghosting, vignettes, astigmatism, and chromatic aberration 16:00
32. Rendering out an image sequence 13:44

http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/1436-Introduction-to-After-Effects-for-Compositors

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