2013
Digital Tutors
Laura Smith
6h49m
English
If you want to become a motion graphics artist, or you already know a little bit about After Effects but you're just getting started this is the training for you.

You will learn all the things that you need to know to get you off the ground and creating your own motion graphics work. We learn the tools and effects that After Effects has to offer, while going through the real creation process of a motion graphics piece. We run into some of the real problems that can be really difficult to solve on your own, and we answer those questions that can save you a lot of time.

There are so many tips that you will pick up as you watch this tutorial even if you are an After Effects user that just needs a refresher. There will be things in this course that will revolutionize your workflow and make you more efficient as an artist. You really can't afford to miss this course if you are serious about motion design.

This training does not go over every single tool that After Effects has to offer but it will get you started and get you exposed to the aspects you need to know to make your own projects and discoveries as you grow into a confident designer. By the end of this tutorial you will have a firm foundation in After Effects' tools, workflows, and terminology. You'll also gain insight into the aspects you need to understand about pacing, timing, and animation in order to make your own projects their very best.
1. Introduction and project overview
2. Creating your first composition
3. Navigating the interface
4. Importing assets to the Project Panel
5. Adding layers to the Timeline
6. Adding a text layer
7. Setting keyframes
8. Previewing your animations
9. Animating and moving anchor points
10. Introduction to Effects & Presets
11. Creating and moving a shape layer
12. Using more advanced Effects
13. Understanding Motion Blur
14. Introduction to Parenting
15. Creating another composition to add to the main composition
16. Precomposing layers
17. Trouble-shooting with the Project Panel
18. Creating a masks
19. Adding more shape layers and playing with blending modes
20. Working with 3D layers
21. Adding a null object as a control
22. Using the fill effect to change colors
23. Duplicating layers and offsetting animation
24. Organizing the Project Panel
25. Adding a camera and controlling it with a null object
26. Introduction to temporal keyframe interpolation
27. Understanding the graph editor
28. Using the Continuously Rasterize and Collapse Transformations switch
29. Best practices for animating paths
30. Creating motion paths
31. Collapse Transformation and 3D layers
32. Replacing layers with other files
33. Understanding Puppet Tool workflows
34. Adding length to our compositions duration
35. Combining effects and practicing our skills to create appealing animat...
36. Preparing our shot and correcting spatial interpolation
37. Color Correction to Swatch
38. Introduction to expressions
39. Working with audio in After Effects
40. Editing text to reveal with audio
41. Techniques for polishing your project
42. Finishing the project polishing
43. Rendering in After Effects

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