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After Effects Advanced

Push your After Effects skills to new heights through this advanced course. Build text animations, create smooth transitions, and step into the world of motion graphics. Lift your projects, from design to delivery.

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Class Description

Description

This comprehensive intermediate to advanced After Effects course is designed to take your motion graphics and animation skills to the next level of professional competency. You'll develop mastery over complex text animations, create sophisticated transitions between multiple layouts, and learn to seamlessly integrate diverse media elements. Through several hands-on, real-world projects that integrate graphic elements with audio, video, and photo assets, you'll develop a complete and robust motion graphics workflow that enables you to take projects from initial concept and design through final delivery with professional polish and technical precision. This course emphasizes practical application, ensuring you can immediately implement what you learn in your professional projects and career.

The course covers a comprehensive range of advanced techniques and professional workflows, including scripts and automation to significantly accelerate your animation process and increase productivity, creating smooth looping animations for various applications, working effectively with mattes and masks to achieve professional compositing results, implementing effective greenscreen removal for video integration, performing digital cell-phone screen replacement for modern advertising and promotional content, executing professional rotoscoping of live-action footage, morphing shape layers to create dynamic visual transitions, integrating hand-drawn elements with digital animation, leveraging JavaScript to automate and streamline animations in After Effects, animating user interface designs for web and app projects, working confidently in After Effects 3D space to add depth and dimension to your compositions, and exploring many additional advanced techniques that professionals use in high-end production work.

Prerequisite:

Participants should be comfortable with the fundamentals and basics of After Effects at a level equivalent to our After Effects Bootcamp course. You should have experience with basic animations, layer management, keyframing, and the standard After Effects interface and workflow. This ensures you can focus on mastering advanced techniques rather than reviewing introductory concepts.

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Syllabus

Working with 3D in After Effects

  • Working with Layers in 3D Space
  • Creating & Animating Camera & Light Layers

Working with Shape Layers

  • Creating & Formatting Shape Layers
  • Creating Custom Shape Layers with the Pen Tool
  • Editing Shape Layer Vertices
  • Working with Shape Layer Effects (Pucker & Bloat, Repeater, Etc.)

Advanced Text Animation

  • Animating Text as a Graphic
  • Working with Dingbat Fonts
  • Creating Custom Text Animators & Saving Presets

Creating Custom Easing with the Graph Editor

  • Using the Graph Editor

Animating with Effects

  • Using Effects

Optimizing Animations with Expressions

  • Adding Expressions to Properties
  • Creating More Complex Expressions
  • Wiring Parameters with Expressions

Beyond Position Keyframes

  • Using the Motion Sketch Panel to Capture Motion
  • Using the Smoother Panel to Soften Movement
  • Using the Nulls to Paths Panel

Working with Audio

  • Adding Markers to Audio
  • Working with Audio Effects
  • Generating Keyframes from Audio Layers

Refund Policy

  • Students may cancel up to 11 business days before the class/program start date and receive a refund, less the registration fee (10% of the undiscounted course price).
  • Cancellations within 11 business days are not permitted, but students may reschedule up to 4 business days before the class start date.

For cancellations and reschedules, please email us at [email protected]

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