After Effects CC 2023 Essential Training

4h 24mBeginner2023-09-08

Authors

Alan Demafiles

Motion Designer, 3D Generalist, Editor, Compositor

Course details

Adobe After Effects enables you to create amazing visual effects for film, TV, video, and the web. It’s a very powerful tool, but how do you get started using it? In this course, motion designer Alan Demafiles guides you through the essentials of using After Effects. Learn how to use layers and shapes with transformation levels, masks, nesting, collapse transformations, and much more. Explore animation in After Effects with keyframe interpolations, the graph editor, time remapping, expressions, and so on. Go over the tools and techniques you need to create transparency for compositing, and then find out how to work with a wide variety of effects. Learn about creating and rendering basic 3D effects, then dive into the intricacies of 3D geometry, including renderers, features, Cinema 4D, and more. Discover ways to work with trackers, then finish up by learning to render your creation using the Render Queue or Media Encoder.

Skills covered

Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeEssential TrainingAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Getting started with After Effects
02 - Before you start
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Working with Layers and Shapes

04 - Shape layer overview
05 - Transformation levels
06 - Shape layers vs. masks
07 - Repeating elements
08 - Path operators
09 - Precomposing and nesting
10 - Collapse Transformations
11 - Blending modes

2. Animating in After Effects

12 - Understanding keyframe interpolations
13 - Adding and adjusting keys
14 - Using the graph editor - Speed
15 - Using the graph editor - Value
16 - Altering speeds with time remapping
17 - Anchor point fundamentals
18 - Parenting
19 - Using expressions to loop animation
20 - Essential Graphics panel
21 - Essential properties
22 - Using the Properties panel

3. Creating Transparency for Compositing

23 - Creating and animating masks
24 - Using Track Mattes
25 - Using the Roto Brush tool
26 - Mocha AE crash course
27 - Keylight 101

4. Working with Type

28 - Activating Adobe Fonts
29 - Using the Type tool
30 - Using text animators

5. Working with Effects

31 - Working with effects
32 - Introducing the Puppet tool
33 - Limiting effects with mask references
34 - Content-Aware Fill

6. Basic After Effects 3D

35 - 3D in After Effects
36 - 3D navigation
37 - Cameras and lights
38 - 3D layer properties

7. 3D Geometry

39 - Cinema 4D renderer
40 - Creating extruded 3D text
41 - Creating extruded 3D shapes
42 - Cinema 4D Lite overview
43 - Using Cineware

8. Working with Trackers

44 - Point tracking
45 - Warp Stabilizer
46 - Mocha AE planar tracking
47 - Camera tracking

9. Rendering

48 - Export to disk using the Render Queue
49 - Rendering with Media Encoder

Conclusion

50 - Continuing the After Effects journey