After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial

Glimpse behind the scenes of a real-world commercial made with After Effects. Learn how to decode a client brief, create animatics, and design the motion graphics in After Effects.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course

1. Concept and Design

• What is a digital pen?
• Analyzing the client brief
• Deciding on the artistic direction
• Presenting to the client
• Exploring previsualization and animatics

2. Transition from Ink to Paper

• Integrating 3D renders with After Effects
• Blue-print design comes to life
• Animating lines with Auto-trace
• Intro to Particular
• Creating dust layers with Particular
• Walk-through of the final scene

3. Transition from Paper to Digital

• Fancy particles transition
• Creating streaks of lights using Particular
• Adding depth of field using z-depth pass

4. Form a Digital Pen

• Intro to Form
• DNA chain using Form
• Intro to Plexus
• Adding geometric lines with Plexus
• HUDs and Scribble additions

Conclusion

• Wrap-up