Beginner's Guide to After Effects

Anyone wanting to create exceptional visual effects, extraordinary motion graphics, and exciting animated text will want to watch this course.

In these After Effects tutorials, we will take an introductory look into After Effects and compositing in general so you can learn essential terms and definitions and build a solid foundation in computer graphics. We will start the tutorial off by covering what motion graphics and compositing are and the various terms we encounter in After Effects such as project, composition, and layers. We will then take a look at importing images into After Effects so you can learn how to begin work on your own projects. After that, you will learn to do common tasks such as creating effects, masking, transforming and animating. And to wrap up this tutorial, we will go over how to render your projects out of After Effects to deliver to your client or show the world what you have accomplished. This series of step-by-step videos were developed with artists new to After Effects in mind so we will be moving at a steady, easy-to-follow pace making sure you understand terms and basic techniques. Software required: After Effects CS5 and up.

• Course Overview 1min
• Introducing After Effects 29mins
• Starting a Project and Importing Assets 18mins
• Creating Comps and Adding Assets to Comps 27mins
• Modifying and Animating Layer Transform Properties 39mins
• Working with Text 21mins
• Working with Shapes 45mins
• Introducing Video Effects 41mins
• Using Some Specialized Effects and Layer Styles 47mins
• Working in “Classic” 3D Space 45mins
• Creating Specialized Text Animations 23mins
• Exporting (Rendering) a Comp 16mins