Online Class: Adobe After Effects

Name: Adobe After Effects
Price: 95.00 USD

Master Adobe After Effects with this all-encompassing course that caters to both novices and experienced users, offering insights into everything from basic layering to 3D animations. Dive into a world of creativity where you'll learn to craft immersive video content through seamless importing, dynamic animation, and precise object manipulation.

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Course Description

Unleash Your Creative Potential with Adobe After Effects: From Basics to Brilliance

In today's dynamic digital era, where compelling visuals reign supreme, Adobe After Effects stands out as the gold standard for video post-production and animation. It's not just a software; it's a canvas where imagination transforms into breathtaking visual narratives. This game-changer tool is revered by leading motion-graphics maestros, avant-garde website designers, and visionary visual effects artisans. Its unparalleled versatility makes it an indispensable asset in the arsenal of professionals shaping the landscape of digital films, DVDs, diverse video platforms, and the ever-evolving web.

Welcome to our comprehensive Adobe After Effects course - a masterclass designed to unlock your creative genius, whether you're a curious novice or a seasoned veteran. We understand the diverse tapestry of learners, and this course is tailored to cater to everyone. If you're just dipping your toes into the vast ocean of After Effects, we'll handhold you through its nuances. If you're here to sharpen your skills, prepare for a deep dive into its advanced treasures.

Here's a glimpse of the exhilarating journey ahead:

Foundations First: Before creating masterpieces, we'll ground you in the program's core. Understand the art of creating projects, mastering compositions, and layering like a pro.
Seamless Importing: Dive deep into the realms of importing varied footage - be it mesmerizing video sequences, captivating audio, or vivid still images.
Spectacular Special Effects: Elevate your projects by exploring the treasure trove within the Effects menu. Every effect can transform a simple video into a visual spectacle.
Animation Wonderland: Breathe life into shapes, objects, layers, and text. Learn the secrets of dynamic animation that captivates and resonates.
Artistry with Shapes: Not just drawing shapes, but animating them into fluid motions that tell stories.
Masking Mastery & Track Mattes: Learn the intricacies of creating, applying, and using masks and track mattes to enhance depth and dimension.
3D Dynamics: Elevate your projects into the third dimension. This isn't just about graphics; it's about creating immersive experiences.
Puppetry in Digital Age: Utilize puppet tools to design animated characters and effects that evoke emotions.
Precision Techniques: Master the art of extracting and removing objects from layers with surgical precision.
Export Excellence: Ensure your projects look impeccable everywhere by mastering the nuances of exporting to video.
...And Beyond: This is just the tip of the iceberg. We've packed countless more insights, tips, and tricks to elevate your After Effects journey.

By the end of this immersive course, not only will you have a robust theoretical understanding, but you'll have practical experience crafting your very own movie. While having Adobe After Effects is advantageous for hands-on practice, it isn't a prerequisite. For those eager to implement their learnings real-time, a 30-day free trial of After Effects CC awaits you on Adobe's official website.

Embark on this transformative journey with us, and witness your creative visions come to life, frame by frame, effect by effect.

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Course Lessons

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Lesson 1. Unlocking Creativity with After Effects
Mastering the After Effects interface requires understanding its workspace and customizable tools, akin to an artist familiarizing themselves with a paintbrush. The complex panel system becomes intuitive, opening a vivid platform for unprecedented digital creativity.
Lesson 2. The Essentials of After Effects: Projects, Footage, and Compositions
In After Effects previews refine the ensemble, ensuring all elements of your visual story harmonize before finalizing bold narratives. This strategic mastery leads to projects that become vivid testaments of ingenuity and creative daring, revolutionizing what visual storytelling can achieve.
Lesson 3. Animating Text with Precision: A Guide to Paragraph and Point Text in After Effects
Create hypnotizing text animations using Adobe After Effects’ extensive range of effects and presets. By mastering text layer properties and motion paths, designers can manipulate text to follow any desired trajectory, adding sophistication and dynamism to digital storytelling.
Lesson 4. Unveiling Dynamic Designs: Shape Layer Techniques and Applications
Shape layers in Adobe After Effects are essential for designing and animating diverse forms in digital content creation. Through tools like the Pucker & Bloat effect, users can transform and enhance shapes with unique aesthetics, fostering creative and professional growth.
Lesson 5. Motion Mastery: Creating Dynamic Visual Experiences
The animation journey is fueled by constant learning and adaptation to new technologies, such as AI in creative fields, allowing animators to stay at the forefront of innovation. Engaging in industry communities and accessing resources like webinars and expert tutorials enables animators to broaden their skills and keep their work fresh and relevant.
Lesson 6. Exploring the Power of Masks in Adobe After Effects
Utilizing Bezier curves in masks enhances aesthetic appeal in animations with complex shapes, such as automotive designs or dynamic movements. The Convert Vertex Tool transforms linear masks into flowing, elegant forms that follow an object’s natural contours.
Lesson 7. Unleashing Creativity Through Advanced After Effects Techniques
The pick whip tool acts as a bridge in After Effects, linking layer properties to harmonize animations without redundancy. Envision sunflowers swaying collectively, orchestrated by one master animation through the pick whip linkage.
Lesson 8. Dance of the Pins: Unleashing Animation Potential in After Effects
Balance and creativity are essential when utilizing After Effects' Puppet tools, achieving both lifelike fluidity and artistic depth through pins and path sketching. This allows animators to craft detailed, realistic, and engaging animated scenes that evoke genuine emotions.
Lesson 9. The Evolution of Rotoscoping: A Blend of Art and Technology
Rotoscoping, a vital technique in visual effects, has evolved from manual tracing to using advanced tools like the Roto Brush, empowering artists to extract objects easily and efficiently. This evolution not only simplifies the technical process but also expands creative possibilities, enabling filmmakers to place subjects into fantastical environments or highlight products against streamlined backgrounds.
Lesson 10. 3D Animation Techniques in After Effects and Cinema 4D
Transitioning text and images into 3D enriches visual storytelling by adding depth and perspective, engaging viewers with dynamic animations. Through the activation of the 3D Layer Switch and manipulation of the Z axis, designers create impactful, lifelike compositions in Adobe After Effects.
Lesson 11. 3D Transformations and Motion Tracking in Video Editing
Discover the power of Adobe After Effects to stabilize, track, and animate footage with finesse, turning shaky visuals into a smooth cinematic presentation. Through Warp Stabilizer and motion tracking, refine every frame to maintain viewer engagement and enhance storytelling.
Lesson 12. Finalizing Your Vision: The Art of Rendering and Exporting
The Render Queue Panel in After Effects is a creator's gateway to finalizing compositions with precision, akin to organizing documents into coherent folders. Custom templates and careful output settings streamline the rendering process, enhancing your creative focus and delivery.
Lesson 13. The Final Chapter: Reflections and Future Directions
Building from the basics to advanced features, this Adobe After Effects course empowered you to craft motion graphics that captivate. Through mastering masks and the puppet tool, you've developed creative superpowers that bring realism and emotion to your work.

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

Define the core functionalities of Adobe After Effects and demonstrate their application in creating dynamic visual effects and animations.
Identify and apply new features in Adobe After Effects CC, such as Mercury Transmit and enhanced compositing options, to streamline workflows and enhance creative outputs.
Identify and explain the role of layers and compositions in structuring and animating visual projects within After Effects.
Recognize and demonstrate the process of creating a new project and importing footage in Adobe After Effects.
Apply and customize text animation presets by adjusting keyframe properties to enhance storytelling dynamics in After Effects.
Define and create point and paragraph text layers using the Horizontal Type Tool in After Effects.
Apply animation techniques such as rotation, duplication, and effects like 'Pucker & Bloat' or 'Wiggly Paths' to transform static shapes into dynamic motion graphics.
Define and manipulate basic and custom shape layers using drawing tools in Adobe After Effects, enhancing visual projects with varied shapes, colors, and gradients.
Apply multi-dimensional transformations, including rotation, scaling, and opacity adjustments, to create dynamic and realistic animations in Adobe After Effects.
Define and construct motion paths using keyframes in Adobe After Effects to animate objects with precision and creativity.
Define the primary function of masks in Adobe After Effects as tools for controlling layer visibility and applying effects to specific areas.
Demonstrate the technique of feathering mask edges to create a soft transition between masked and unmasked areas, enhancing visual composition.
Demonstrate the ability to simulate realistic lighting effects in animations using adjustment layers and the Pen tool in Adobe After Effects.
Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.

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Course Title: Adobe After Effects

Course Number: 8900318

Lessons Rating: 4.3 / 5 Stars (350 votes)

Languages: English - United States, Canada and other English speaking countries

Availability: This course is available online in all U.S. states, including California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Georgia. It’s also offered in English-speaking countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Last Updated: May 2024

CEU Value: 1.2 IACET CEUs (Continuing Education Units)

CE Accreditation: Universal Class, Inc. has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

Grading Policy: Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to receive an online/downloadable CEU Certification documenting CEUs earned.

Course Type: Self-Paced, Online Classes

Assessment Method: Lesson assignments and review exams

Syllabus: View Syllabus

Course Fee: $120.00 U.S. dollars