Adobe After Effects CC – Motion Graphics Design & VFX
In this course you’ll learn how to create motion graphics in Adobe After Effects. This motion graphics course is everything you need to start creating beautiful animation & infographics.
As part of this course you’ll get downloadable exercise files so you can work along exactly with the trainer. You’ll also get completed files with every video so you can download and check your files against the trainers.
Your trainer is an Adobe After Effects Certified Expert and Certified Instructor. Daniel has been creating immersive infographics and motion graphics for more than 12 years.
The course is approximately 3 hours long. Each step broken into individual videos to make it easily digestible.
In this course we’ll cover:
- Motion Graphics
- Infographics
- Correct video settings.
- Exporting your video easily.
- Type animation.
- Easing and motion blur.
- Rendering your video for Youtube & Vimeo.
- Titles for interviews.
- Adding music.
- Trimming & editing video.
- Watermarking your video.
- Fixing shaky footage.
- Color correcting footage.
- Add a vignette to your video.
- Matrix effect.
- Working with Illustrator
- Working with Photoshop
- Green Screen
- Masking.
- Animating bar, line & pie charts.
- 3D type.
- Animating static images using parallax
- Character animation
In this course you’ll create over 15 smaller projects so you can gain experience with the software. You can also use the exercises we create in your own portfolio.
You’ll need Adobe After Effects installed on your computer. A 30 day free trial can be downloaded directly from Adobe.
If you’ve been excited by the world of motion graphics but still haven’t started. This beginner course is perfect for you.
Dan (Adobe Certified Instructor)
Getting started quickly
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IntroductionWelcome to my course on how to become a motion graphic designer using Adobe After Effects.
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Exercise Files
In this video we'll talk about how to download the exercise files, completed files, cheat sheets and all other resources available with the course.
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Relinking missing footage
After completing this course you'll know what to do if you loose any of your videos or files. We'll relink them!
My computer is really crappy & I keep getting lost.
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Project vs Compositions
After this video you'll know the difference between a Project and a Composition in Adobe After Affects.
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What’s the right composition settings
After this video you'll know exactly what setting you need to create your videos in.
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Changing the length of your composition
After completing this video you'll be able to change the length of your motion graphic animation.
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Matching composition to video size
After completing this video you will be able to automatically choose the correct size and length of your After Effects composition.
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Type Animation
After completing this video you'll know how to create your first type animation motion graphic.
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Easing your animation
After completing this video you'll learn the first of the secret sauces that make up slick looking motion graphics.
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Blurring your text while it moves
After completing this video you'll learn the second of the motion graphic secrets to beautiful animated typography.
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How to render or export your After Effects animation
After completing this video you'll know how to easily export your first video ready for Youtube, Vimeo or your own website.
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What is the best video size to start with?
Title overlays, lower thirds & water marks
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My computer is really slow - help
After completing this video you'll know what to do if you find your laptop is running a little slow. All the tricks in the book to make your animation preview super fast.
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Empty your disk cache to clear hard drive space
After completing this video you'll know how to make loads of room for your motion graphics files on your hard drive.
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I’ve lost my timeline in After Effects.
After completing this video you'll know what to do if you get lost inside After Effects. A great trick for newbies.
Inspiration
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Lower thirds type animation
After completing this video you'll know how to create title that appear above people when they are talking in interviews.
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Creating a watermark in After Effects
After completing this video you'll know how to add a watermark to your video. The watermark is the small transparent logo that appears in the corner of the video (like the Udemy logo.
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Rules of motion graphics - anticipation
After completing this video you'll know the best keep secret in motion graphics - Anticipation. This technique will turn your boring infographics into stunning animation.
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Custom easing using the graph editor in After Effects
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Adding audio & music to your video
After completing this video you'll know how to add upbeat background music to your motion graphics projects.
Fixing / Cleaning up your video
Camera tracking + Time Remapping
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Trimming the length of a video.
After completing this video you'll know how to trim and edit your video into smaller, more dynamic footage.
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Color correction, exposure & adjustment layers
After completing this video you'll know how to take ugly video and make it look amazing.
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Creating a vignette in After Effects
After completing this video you'll know how to add a vignette. A vignette is the dark cloudy fog near the edges of video. They make motion graphics feel more awesome.
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Fixing shaky footage with warp stabilizer
After completing this video you'll know what to do when you have jumpy footage. We'll take hand held mobile phone footage and make it look very professional.
Animating illustrations
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Add text to live action video
After completing this video you'll know how to add text to your footage that feels like it's actually in the shot. Very cool.
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Matrix effect using time remapping
After completing this video you'll learn how to create slow motion like the 'bullet time' using in the movie 'The Matrix'.
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Text to follow live action
After completing this video you'll know how to get type animations to follow your subjects around in the screen.
Masking & green screen
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Working with Illustrator in After Effects
After completing this video you'll know how to use your skills in Illustrator (if you have any). You'll create your graphics in Illustrator and bring them into After Effects to be animated correctly.
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Looping your animation
After completing this video you'll learn how to loop your animations.
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Grouping is called a pre-comp
After completing this video you'll know how to group your animations together. Making it easy to move them around.
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How to make a motion path
After completing this video you'll learn how to get your motion graphics to follow any line your create. In this video we'll animate a hip little fish and get him to move around the video.
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You want to group animated layers together. What is this technique called?
Infographics
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Green screen (Keying)
After completing this video you'll know how to cut people out from a Green Screen.
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Basic Masking
After completing this video you'll learn how to create a basic mask in After Effects.
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Object & mask animate separately - Track Matts
After completing this video you'll learn how to make a cooler mask with different layers animating separately with cool motion graphic effects.
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Rotoscoping & faking depth of field
After completing this video you'll know how to mask more completed things like moving people in a video.
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Rotobrush - putting type behind video objects
After completing this video you'll learn how to mask objects in your video and put type animation between them.
Cameras
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Animated infographic line chart
After completing this video you'll learn how to make an animated infographic line chart.
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Pie chart infographic in After Effects
After completing this video you'll learn how to make an animated infographic pie chart. We'll have the bars expanding and slices popping out for cool motion graphic effect.
Animated static images
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Using cameras in After Effects
After completing this video you'll learn how to create a camera to follow objects around in your motion graphic animations.
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Animating a screen capture or screencast
After completing this video you'll know how to take your boring screen shot video into moving, slick motion graphics.
Swinging text
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Animating static images using parallax
After completing this video you'll know how to cut up still photographs from Photoshop and make them feel like they are moving, live footage. The term is parallax and it is beautiful.
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Add fake lights with CC Light Rays
After completing this video you'll learn how to add moving lights to your static images to make them feel like they are totally motion/live footage.
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Creating dust particles in After Effects
After completing this video you'll know how to fake dust particles in the air. You can use the same effect for snow & rain.
Effects and presets
What now?
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Making your video file size really small
After completing this video you'll know how to make a version of your video that is super small and easy to email to customers.
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Put all your files in one place - collect files
After completing this video you'll know how to collect all the files you've been working on into one place. This trick makes everything so very tidy.
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