by Daniel Scott | Publisher: Total Training | Release Date: February 2018 | ISBN: 10000DSINFOAE

This Animated Infographics and Data Visualization Using After Effects training course is for beginners. Join instructor Daniel Scott as he shows you how to bring boring data to life using Adobe After Effects CC. Animated Infographics and Data Visualization Using After Effects starts with the very basics, taking simple icons and breathing life into them using Adobe After Effects. We'll work through a real life project, connecting Microsoft Excel into After Effects to transform your boring spreadsheet data into approachable visual information. We'll experiment with lighting and cameras. We'll do some fun things with masking – looking at how important sound is in your presentation, all the way through to exporting for Youtube, PowerPoint, and all sorts of social media, including animated GIFs. There are projects for you to complete, so you can practice your skills and use these for your portfolio. There is a cheat sheet, and I've got exercise files so you can play along. I will also save my files as I go through each video so that you can compare yours to mine - handy if something goes wrong. What are you waiting for? Lets get started! Project Files included Length: 5 hrs 37 minutes. Requirements: You will need a copy of Adobe After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop CC 2017 or above. 90% of the course will be done in After Effects, but a few things are better done in Illustrator and Photoshop. Free trials can be downloaded from Adobe.

1. OVERVIEW
   • Animated Infographics and Data Visualization Introduction 00:01:53
   • Exercise files and projects 00:01:21
   • Inspiration for your animated infographics 00:02:45
2. ANIMATING INFOGRAPHICS
   • Setting up your software and project 00:07:52
   • Adding Audio and Music 00:08:42
   • Adding a Solid Background or Image 00:02:10
   • Adding Text and Using TypeKit 00:03:37
   • Where to Get Free Icons 00:03:22
   • Using CC Libraries 00:07:22
   • Animating an infographic icon 00:06:36
   • How to ease animation in After Effects to make them look slick 00:03:53
   • Help, I’m lost. I can’t find my comp in After Effects 00:00:57
   • Adding Sound Effects 00:02:59
   • Creating a circle pop or circle burst 00:07:14
3. TECHNIQUES FOR BEAUTIFUL ANIMATION
   • Animation TIP - Motion Blur in After Effects 00:02:21
   • Animation TIP - Over shoot in After Effects 00:09:42
   • Animation TIP - Vignette in After Effects 00:02:14
   • Animation TIP - Anticipation - Up before down - graph editor 00:06:56
   • Animating TIP - Offset - two objects moving just after each other in After Effects 00:03:16
   • Animation TIP - Vector Redraw in After Effects 00:04:00
   • Animation TIP - Puppet tool in After Effects 00:06:10
   • Animation TIP - Grouping in After Effects is called precomping 00:10:04
4. CAMERA – 1 NODE
   • Creating and Animating a Camera 00:09:36
5. PREVIEW AND PLAYBACK
   • Speeding up After Effects playback and preview 00:06:45
6. ICON BUILD
   • Animating the lines of an icon in After Effects 00:14:18
7. COLOR AND BACKGROUNDS
   • How to add colors to your animated infographic video 00:03:27
   • How to add video backgrounds to your infographic video 00:06:55
8. DATA VISUALIZATION
   • How to manually make an animated bar graph 00:06:05
   • How to use Adobe Illustrator to create an moving bar graph 00:11:57
   • How to use Excel to create an data visualization bar chart 00:07:52
   • How to create a data visualization line graph 00:15:41
   • How to create a data visualization pie chart graph 00:12:57
   • How to make a number counter ticker 00:05:02
   • How to create an animated flow chart infographic 00:32:16
9. CAMERA – 2 NODE
   • How to use a 2 node camera to sweep across a data visualization 00:09:54
10. MASKING
    • How to make a donut style pie chart animation 00:02:38
    • How to mask an image inside pie chart segments 00:03:27
    • How to make an animated opacity percentage slider 00:08:28
    • How to animate an object filling up to make it look like liquid 00:07:58
11. REAL LIFE VIDEO INFOGRAPHICS
    • How to get a line to follow the video in Adobe After Effects 00:07:00
    • Track motion in After Effects to follow a person like 'Stranger than Fiction' 00:12:12
    • Camera tracking in After Effects doesn’t work well - do it manually 00:09:31
12. EXPORTING
    • Exporting infographic video for TV, Websites, Youtube and social media 00:09:17
    • How to Export data visualization for Microsoft PowerPoint 00:08:03
    • How to export animated GIF infographic animation 00:13:25
13. WHAT NEXT?
    • Class Project: Data visualization and infographic project 00:01:33
    • What to do next after learning Animated Infographic Videos 00:01:26
    • Cheat sheet and shortcuts for After Effects 00:04:41