Creating Project Templates with After Effects

Mixkit: Known for its user-friendly interface, Mixkit provides a vast collection of free video assets, including motion graphics and video templates. While they aren't directly from Videohive, they offer a comparable quality that can be integrated into your projects seamlessly.
Videezy: Videezy offers a variety of free and paid video assets, including After Effects templates. Their extensive library is perfect for those looking to enhance their videos without breaking the bank.
Motion Elements: While Motion Elements primarily focuses on premium content, they regularly feature free downloads that include video templates similar to those found on Videohive. Their search interface allows you to filter out the free options easily.
Editor’s Depot: This site provides free editing tools and templates, ensuring you have access to some elements similar to Videohive offerings. Though the selection might not be as vast, it’s a valuable resource for cost-effective production.
Motion Array: With a solid reputation, Motion Array occasionally offers free downloads that replicate some Videohive elements. Subscribing to their newsletter might help you get alerts about any new freebies available.

Creating Project Templates with After Effects

Duration: 2hr 49m | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 30fps | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 2 ch | 881 MB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Mograph designers and artists are always looking for new templates—and they're often willing to pay for them. Building template-based projects in After Effects is also a great way to earn extra income while improving your design skills. In this course, you'll create a working project template in After Effects and prepare it for sale.

You'll learn how to build the project from flexible shape layers and text layers, adding some effects along the way. You'll also find out how to set up the project to make it easy for other designers to make changes to the color, text, and animation, and customize the project to suit their needs. Author Angie Taylor also shows the best ways to save and package template projects for web delivery or for submission to Adobe's Creative Cloud Market.

Topics include:

Coming up with project ideas
Planning projects
Building backgrounds and graphical animated elements
Formatting text
Structuring the project with controller layers
Working with color
Optimizing projects
Making templates easy for others to use
Packaging your template project
Selling your project

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