Course Outline

After Effects - framework training program

  1. We start working with the program
    • Creating a project and importing materials
    • Creating compositions and arranging layers
    • Add effects and change layer properties
    • Animating your composition
    • Optimizing After Effects performance
    • Rendering and exporting artwork
    • Customize your workspace
  2. Creating your first simple animation
    • Importing materials using Adobe Bridge
    • Creating compositions
    • Working with imported Adobe Illustrator layers
    • Adding effects to a layer
    • Adding an animation template
    • Preview how effects work
    • Adding transparency
    • Rendering the composition
  3. Animating text
    • Using the text animation template
    • Animate with scaling keys
    • Animating with inheritance relationships
    • Animating text imported from Photoshopa
    • Animate movement along a path using a template
    • Animating the distance between letters
    • Animate text transparency
    • Using a group of text animators
    • Animate movement along the path of an image layer
    • Adding motion blur
    • Exporting to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
  4. Shape layers
    • Creating a shape layer
    • Create your own shapes
    • Attach layers with video and audio
    • Creating a cartoon
    • Adding a titlebar
    • Experimenting with Brainstorm
  5. Animating a multimedia presentation
    • Animating a landscape using inheritance
    • Customizing the anchor point
    • Video masking with vector shapes
    • Motion path keying
    • Animating additional elements
    • Adding an effect
    • Create an animated slideshow
    • Adding a soundtrack
    • Final close-up
    • Sending your project to reviewers
  6. Animating layers
    • Simulating lighting changes
    • Duplicate animations with Pick Whip
    • Animating the movement of landscape elements
    • Precomposing and masking layers
    • Animating shadows
    • Adding the Lens Flare effect
    • Composition time remapping
  7. Working with masks
    • Creating a mask with the Pen tool
    • Editing a mask
    • Blurring the edges of the mask
    • Replacing the contents of a mask
    • Adding a reflection
    • Creating a vignette
    • Color correction
  8. Distorting objects with tools Puppet
    • Tool overview Puppet
    • Adding deformation pins
    • Defining overlap areas
    • Stiffening the area
    • Animating pin positions
    • Animation recording
  9. Chroma keying
    • Creating compositions in Device Central
    • Change the background color
    • Adding a foreground object
    • Using work masks
    • Apply the Color Difference Key effect
    • Narrowing the mask
    • Removing the leak
    • Enhancing the contrast
    • Adding background animation
    • Adding a title
    • Preparing compositions for mobile devices
  10. Color correction
    • Setting the color balance
    • Changing the background
    • Removing unwanted elements from the image
    • Color range correction
    • Warm up colors with the Photo Filter effect
  11. Building a three-dimensional object
    • How a 3D object is constructed
    • Creating three-dimensional text
    • Creating backgrounds for 3D animations
    • Nesting 3D artwork
    • Adding a camera
    • Adding other objects
  12. Working in three dimensions
    • Animation of 3D objects
    • 3D mirror reflections
    • Camera animation
    • Adjusting the time distribution of layer animation
    • Using 3D lights
    • Adding effects
    • Adding motion blur
    • Preview of the entire animation
  13. Advanced editing techniques
    • Stabilizing traffic
    • Single-point motion tracking
    • Using multi-point tracking
    • Creating a molecular system
    • Using the Timewarp effect to retime playback
  14. Rendering and creating output files
    • Creating a rendering template
    • Creating templates for output modules
    • Export to various output media.

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For whom?

  • for everyone who wants to learn how to create special effects and graphic compositions, how to combine video with graphics, animations, texts and other elements
 21 Hours

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