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Intro to After Effects for Designers

Offered By: CreativeLive

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Course Description

Overview

Get to know the 4th member of the core design applications in Adobe® Creative Cloud. Chances are you know Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. But did you know After Effects supports just as many file formats, provides amazing design and compositing features, and can be used in any print, web, animation, video or photo compositing project?

What you’ll learn:

  • The After Effects interface
  • Starting a new project from scratch
  • How After Effects is similar to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
  • How the Timeline Panel is similar to Layers
  • How the Project Panel is similar to Links
  • How the Composition Panel is similar to artboards, or pages
  • How to import photos, videos, and artwork into your project
  • Applying effects (it’s all about effects!)
  • Introduction to animation in the timeline panel


Software Used: Adobe After Effects CC 2017


Syllabus

  • Class Introduction
  • Tour of the Interface
  • How to Import Artwork
  • How to Add Effects
  • How to Add Typography
  • Creating Animations
  • Working with Paths and Masks
  • How to Add Video and Audio
  • Rendering

Taught by

Chris Converse

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