Become a Motion Graphics Designer Using After Effects
Motion graphics are an essential part of video creation and editing. This ’Become a Motion Graphics Designer Using After Effects’ tutorial will help at every step of the way, without leaving you drowning in details.
Duration: 04:49:48
In this Become a Motion Graphics Designer Using After Effects® course, expert instructor Daniel Scott will take you one manageable step at a time through motion graphics in a series of small practical projects that come together to unlock Adobe After Effects, animation, and infographics.
With nearly 5 hours of high-quality training content, you’ll discover how to create beautiful motion graphics, fix shaky video footage, add 3D type, render video for YouTube™, and so much more!
Learn the principles and the specifics of producing content, in a way that you’ll understand and remember. By the time you’ve completed this course, you will have a complete foundation that you can build on for years to come.
Chapters
- 01 Introduction to Motion Graphics
- 02 Exercise Files
- 03 Live Chat forums
- 04 Relinking missing footage
- 05 Projects vs. Compositions
- 06 What's the right composition settings?
- 07 Changing the length of your composition
- 08 Matching composition to video size
- 09 Create type animation in After Effects
- 10 Easing your animation
- 11 Blurring your text while it moves
- 12 How to render or export your After Effects animation
- 13 My computer isn't good enough - help
- 14 Empty your disk cache to clear hard drive space
- 15 I've lost my timeline in After Effects
- 16 Lower thirds type animation
- 17 Creating a watermark in After Effects
- 18 Rules of motion graphics - anticipation
- 19 Custom easing using the graph editor in After Effects
- 20 Adding audio & music to your video
- 21 Inspiration for your motion graphics
- 22 Trimming the length of a video
- 23 Color correction, exposure & adjustment layers
- 24 Creating a vignette in After Effects
- 25 Fixing shaky footage with warp stabilizer
- 26 Add text to live action video
- 27 Matrix effect using time remapping
- 28 Text to follow live action
- 29 Working with Illustrator in After Effects
- 30 Looping your animation
- 31 Grouping is called a pre-comp
- 32 How to make a motion path
- 33 Green screen Keying
- 34 Basic Masking
- 35 Object & mask animate separately - Track Mattes
- 36 Rotoscoping & faking depth of field
- 37 Rotobrush - putting type behind video objects
- 38 Animated infographic line chart
- 39 Pie chart infographic in After Effects
- 40 Using cameras in After Effects
- 41 Animating a screen capture or screencast
- 42 Animating static images using parallax
- 43 Add fake lights with CC Light Rays
- 44 Creating dust particles in After Effects
- 45 Swinging text in After Effects
- 46 Character animation using the Puppet pin tool
- 47 Spinning globe & star effects
- 48 Making your video file size really small
- 49 Put all your files in one place - collect files
- 50 End
- After Effect Cheat Sheet
Instructor: Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott is a Microsoft Trainer and Adobe® Certified Instructor. He’s been teaching for more than 14 years – covering topics such as print, digital publishing, web, and video. He loves to see how it all connects, and how we can share those connections. He prides himself on delivering the best service to his clients and making sure all his students learn to their fullest potential. He is currently the lead trainer at Bring Your Own Laptop Training Center in New Zealand.
