Udemy - After Effects for Beginners Complete Intro to After Effects

Udemy - After Effects for Beginners Complete Intro to After Effects

https://www.udemy.com/course/aftereffects-beginners-complete/

This course will teach you all neccesary & most used After Effects tools, a proper workflow, show you real-life examples of animating and various tricks in the program. Watch the above promo video for detailed explanation. This is your one-stop guidance & shortcut to professional motion graphic design.

Description

Project files included, free to use in your own work
The [WORKSHOP] section will make sure you stay current and up-to-date with new design trends as I will be adding my tutorials there

In this course I want to teach you everything you need to know to start working in After Effects and becomming a motion graphic artist. We will start with the program interface, going on with keyframing and later creating our first animations. This will be a basic course making a great intro to the motion design world. It doesn't matter if you use After Effects CS6 or After Effects CC (we work on CC 2015, but informations about both are covered).

You don't have to work for Warner Bros right away, but with help of this After Effects course you will be able to prepare simple animations to spice up Your YouTube channel, videos, land more work with clients by expanding your skillset, get creative with your 2D content, be confident that you can use Photoshop / Illustrator files and create animations out of them, produce seamless animations and more.

Some of the things that will be covered during the course:

Motion Graphics basics
After Effects program layout and basics
Working with different types of layers
Creating our first few animations
Simple kinetic typography to use
Real-life examples of lower thirds, logo animations & more
Cross-usage between Photoshop / Illustrator
How to add effects to our compositions
Precomposing, matting, exporting, rendering
Tons of often used tricks and keyboard shortcuts
...the list goes on.

Knowing After Effects is a lucrative skill to have which is in demand especially in 2015 / 2016 and ongoing years where video will grow as the most published type of content across the web.

So why & for what is After Effects used actually:

Improve video quality,
Spice up videos with smooth animations,
Industry standard for animating (TV Shows, News, Video content),
Enhancing Youtube channels content,
...the list is endless.

This course will kickstart your After Effects journey and you will realize that After Effects is and will be one of the most important tools on the market regarding animation & video editing. I want help you achieve your creative goals, wether it's enhancing your Youtube channel, promoting your business or starting your mograph (motion graphics design) career.

So what are you waiting for...Enroll Now!

Who this course is for:

Course Creators, YouTubers, anyone wanting to incorporate animation into videos
Graphic designers & Freelancers looking to learn motion graphics and VFX
Everyone wanting to start out with animation software
Users interested in motion graphics
Adobe suite users wanting to learn & work in After Effects

Course content

Let's Roll - Introduction to the course
- Introduction to the content
- [DOWNLOAD PROJECT FILES HERE]
- What is Motion Graphics & After Effects?
- Terminology in Video Editing
- EXERCISE: Prepare your first movie!
Core Elements - Getting started with After Effects
- After Effects Interface
- Preferences & memory size
- Adding & Organizing Assets
- Import .PSD files properly
- Import .AI files properly
- Relinking missing assets
- Composition settings
- EXERCISE: Prepare a Quick Title with Burn Film Effect
- Do you recall?
Workflow - Essential tools & practices
- The Timeline - Pt. 1
- The Timeline - Pt. 2
- Properties
- Pre-Composing
- Crop Composition to any size with Region of Interest
- Keyframing & Interpolation
- Keyframes in action - Create a simple transition
- Parenting
- Previewing
- Rendering
- EXCERCISE: Prepare a simple Logo Intro
- Quick questions to refresh your mind
Shape Layers
- Creating Text layers
- Creating Solid layers
- Creating Shape Layers
- Shape Layers - Rearranging and adding properties
- Masks & Masking
- Blending Modes
- Track Mattes
- EXERCISE: Prepare a Custom Transition!
- Find out if you remember everything
Animation
- Animation
- Easing Keyframes
- Motion Blur
- Graph Editor
- Null Object
- Basic Expressions
- Working with Audio
- EXCERCISE: Create a circle with appearing text
- Can you recall those informations?
Effects & Presets
- Using Effects & their order
- Different Layers for Different FX
- Adjustment Layers
- Masking out effects
- EXERCISE: Create an Audio Spectrum
- What was it again ?
Other most used techniques (Bit more advanced)
- Transparent videos
- Time Remapping (Slow Motion)
- Stabilizing shaky camera footage
- Color keying (Aka. Green Screen)
- Motion Tracking
- Exporting and copying Compositions between Projects
WORKSHOP: All you've learned in use!
- Create a Lower Third
- Create a Typographic Animation
- Create a Logo Transition
- Create a Minimal Title Animation
- Create a Cross Animation
- Creating a pattern over another object with Repeater
- Simple One Line Title Animation
- The Power of Puppet Pin Tool!
- Animated Speech Bubble in After Effects
BONUS: Design an outstanding Stroke Animation
- Select Font and Create Outlines
- Prepare and pre-compose Layers
- Applying Effects
- Select Color and Fill the Letter
- Watch another letter from beginning
- Workflow Tips
- Finalizing and polishing the project
BONUS: Explainer Videos in After Effects
- Introduction
- Selecting a topic
- Selecting appropriate graphics
- Animating the icons
- Rove across time and use Null objects!
- Bonus - Creating a Voice Over
- Craft your story - Advanced trick!
- Creating a Transition
- Creating a Text Scene
- Final project
Conclusion
- Thank You!
- Bonus Lecture: Continue to learn!

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