AFTER EFFECTS MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGN 2
Training
Online
Description
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Type
Training
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Level
Beginner
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Methodology
Online
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Class hours
50h
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Duration
Flexible
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Start date
Different dates available
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Delivery of study materials
Yes
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Support service
Yes
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Personal tutor
Yes
Course Setup
This course consists of 10 video-based lessons. Each lesson is approximately 30 minutes in duration and most include supplementary files and footage.
This course will be delivered on dvd via royalmail post.
Primarily project-based, this course will teach you everything you need to know to create stunning visuals and motion graphics with After Effects. The course will offer an in-depth look at a number of After Effects plug-ins as well as covering the use of Expressions, After Effects built in scripting language, to speed up production and enhance creativity.
Facilities
Location
Start date
Start date
About this course
Students should have some knowledge of After Effects, in particular, working with keyframes and understanding layers. Students should be fluent in English.
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Subjects
- Animation
- Video Editing
- Editing and correction
- Colour Grading
Teachers and trainers (1)
Pierre Vella
Post Production Editor, Grader, Compositor, Visual Effects
Pierre Vella is an independent digital creative working in film, video and digital technologies, with over 20 years working in the film and video post-production related Industries. He is a founding member of MITA (Moving Image Training Alliance) and runs a series of training programmes in film and video post-production, web technologies and motion graphics in London and Cambridge. Apple Certified in Final Cut Pro, Motion and Color. Video Editing, Animation, Motion Graphic Design, Broadcast, Visual Effects, VFX, and Wen Technologies
Course programme
Course Setup
This course consists of 10 video-based lessons. Each lesson is approximately 30 minutes in duration and most include supplementary files and footage.
This course will be delivered on dvd via royalmail post.
Primarily project-based, this course will teach you everything you need to know to create stunning visuals and motion graphics with After Effects. The course will offer an in-depth look at a number of After Effects plug-ins as well as covering the use of Expressions, After Effects built in scripting language, to speed up production and enhance creativity.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Working with Mattes, 3D layers and Object Buffers. Creating text animations using Track Mattes and Text Animators. Offsetting parameters overtime using expressions.
Lesson 2: Using scripts to generate a 3D elements. Introduction to Trapcode Form, using Layer Maps. Creating Layer Maps with Radio Waves, Trapcode Particular. Looping keyframes with a simple expression.
Lesson 3: Overview of Card Dance and Particle Playground. Animating a camera using parenting. Animating Illustrator artwork in 3D space. Working with AE Text, per character 3D feature, combined with range selectors and using wiggly selectors for randomizing characters and text colour.
Lesson 4: Working with Expressions and particle generators (Form)
Lesson 5: Working with particle generators. Adding in text elements and linking the parameters between compositions. More Expressions.
Lesson 6: Using Keylight to pull keys on green screen footage. Combining mattes to key out tracking markers. Tracking and Cloning to clean up skin. Isolating skin areas for smoothing.
Lesson 7: Stabilizing the keyed footage. Creating a light wrap effect. Adding in a shape layer background and some type. Trapcode Starglow and Particular for enhancing the shot.
Lesson 8: Grading with Magic Bullet Looks.
Lesson 9: Working with still images to create stop motion animations. Auto tracing bitmaps to create vectors. Using expressions to tint the layers based on distance from camera.
Lesson 10: Using Particular to create a journey through a forest of trees. Finishing the final shot and editing all shots together with transitions.
Additional information
AFTER EFFECTS MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGN 2