Advanced Motion Graphics

Learn about how to take your skills to the next level by building, editing, and stylizing your compositions in Adobe After Effects.

Introduction

• Becoming a better motion designer
• What you should know

1. Planning and Preparing

• Reviewing the client brief
• Hunting for footage
• Importing and stabilizing footage
• Creating the main comp
• Syncing fonts

2. Type Design

• Designing the title
• Adding a special glyph
• Extruding and placing 3D text
• Overriding materials
• Using lights to add depth and shadows
• Adding a tagline

3. 3D Type Animation

• Animating the extrusion
• Previewing in real time
• Animating 3D characters

4. Compositing

• Rotoscoping with the roto brush
• Adding ground shadow
• Stylizing lens flare
• Adding noise
• Removing spots

5. Tracking

• Animating lines
• Tracking a surface
• Applying tracking data
• Reintroducing a handheld camera
• Finalizing and rendering

6. Challenge

• Challenge overview
• Solution to challenge

Conclusion

• Next steps