Adobe After Effects CC

COURSE CURRICULUM

Introduction

0. After Effects Promo Video
1.1 Intro Video
1.3 Animate Your Name

After Effects Basics

2.1 Understand the After Effects Workspace
2.2 Starting a New Composition
2.3 Adding Media to Your Project and Timeline
2.4 Using the Basic After Effects Tools
2.5 Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors
2.6 Working in the Timeline
2.7 Layer Properties

Animating with Keyframes

3.1 Animating in After Effects
3.2 Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations
3.3 Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral
3.4 Using the Graph Editor
3.5 Challenge – Bouncing Ball
3.6 Solution – Bouncing Ball

Shapes and Solid Layers

4.1 Working With Solid Layers and the ken Burns Effects
4.2 Working With Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths
4.3 Adding Layer Styles Like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients
4.4 Shape Effects – Trim Path Animation, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

Important After Effects Skills

5.1 Track Matte Animation – Make Layers Appear And Disappear
5.2 Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers
5.3 Easily Reverse Complicated Animations
5.4 Playing with Time
5.5 Blend Modes
5.6 Stabilize Shaky Footage

Motion Graphics Projects

6.1 Intro to Motion Graphics Projects
6.2 Clean Lower Third
6.3 Logo Reveal Animation Bumper
6.4 Colorful Transition
6.5 Text with Mask Path Animation
6.6 Text Bubble Animation
6.7 Weather App 1
6.8 Weather App 2
6.9 Weather App 3

Flat Animation Challenge

7.1 Flat Animation Challenge
7.2 Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene
7.3 Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect

Green Screen (Chromakeying)

8.1 Removing Green Screen Background
8.2 Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground
8.3 Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
8.4 Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect

3D Animations and the Camera Tool

9.1 Intro to 3D
9.2 Swinging 3D Text Animation
9.3 Build Out Your 3D Composition
9.4 Animating Our 3D Scene
9.5 Create Stars in After Effects

Rotoscoping

10.1 Using the Rotoscope Tool
10.2 Cleaning Up Your Edges
10.3 Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation

Screen Replacements

11.1 Easy Screen Replacement with Masks
11.2 Replacing a Screen Version 2
11.3 Screen Replacement with Mocha

Puppet Tool Animations

12.1 Using the Puppet Pin Tool
12.2 Animating Your Puppet Pins
12.3 Animated Blinking Eyes
12.4 Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds

Effects & Presets

13.1 Applying Text Animation Presets
13.2 Create a page Turn Effect with CC page Turn
13.3 Radial and Linear wipes
13.4 Color Correction in After Effects

Motion Tracking

14.1 Motion Tracking Basics
14.2 Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
14.3 Tracking Rotation and Scale
14.4 Adding Details to Our Text

Character Animations

15.1 Intro to Character Animation
15.2 Design Your Character
15.3 Rigging Your Character
15.4 animation Our Character
15.5 Adding the Animated Background
15.6 Adding Details to Character Movement
15.7 Adding the Paper Cut Out Look

Exporting From After Effects

16.1 Exporting an H264 File From After Effects
16.2 Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
16.3 Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder
16.4 Create an Animated GIF from After Effects

After Effects Workflow + Tips

17.1 Audio Tips for After Effects
17.2 Working with Premiere Pro

Expressions

18.1 Expressions Basics
18.2 Animate a Flickering with Expressions

Conclusion

19.1 Conclusion

Resources

Resources – Adobe After Effects CC