This training is organized by BITM. Training will be held in BITM.

If you are looking to make your videos better, adding motion graphics and visual effects is the way to do that. After Effects CC is used by professionals across the world for every type of production from business & marketing videos, music videos to documentaries, feature films.

This course will help you to understand how motion & visual effect works and making your own videos come to life.

What you'll learn

 

• Includes After Effect CC
• Create full Motion Graphics Videos in After Effects
• You will learn how to create the 4-Phase walk for any character
• Create Graphics using After Effects Tools
• Use all After Effects Motion Graphics Properties and Methods
• Understand and Apply the most useful Visual Effects for Graphics
• Master the most useful After Effects' Motion Graphics & Visual Effects Techniques
• Import and Animate Illustrator Graphics

 

Course Outline

 

1/ Introduction

1. Installation & Overview
2. Start a New Project and Understand the After Effect Workspace
3. Workspaces
4. Exploring Preferences
5. Exploring Keyboard Shortcuts
6. Animate Your Name!

 

2/ After Effects Basics

1. Know Your Way Around After Effects
2. Start a New Composition
3. Starting a New Composition from Footage
4. Importing Media and Placing on the Timeline
5. Learn the Important Tools
6. Create a Perfect Square or Circle, Alignment, and Colors
7. The Timeline
8. Layer Transformations
9. Instructor Note - Get More Resources and Tips

 

3/ Animating with Keyframes & Shapes and Solid Layers

1. Working with Solid Layers
2. Working with Shapes
3. Layer Styles - Drop Shadows, Bevel & Emboss, and Gradients
4. Shape Effects
5. Adding and Editing Keyframes + Opacity Animations
6. Position, Size, and Rotation Animations
7. Make Animations Better with Easy Ease and Motion Blur
8. Challenge: Bouncing Ball Animation
9. Solution: Bouncing Ball Animation

 

4/ Important After Effects Skills

1. Track Mattes: Make Layers Appear and Disappear
2. Pre-Compositions: Grouping Layers Together
3. Quickly Reversing Animations
4. Freeze Frames, Remapping, Reversing Time
5. Blend Modes
6. Stabilizing Footage

 

5/ Motion Graphics Projects

1. Intro to Real World Projects
2. Project: Clean Lower Third
3. Project: Colorful Transition
4. Project: Text with Mask Transition
5. Project: Text Bubble Pop-Up Animation
6. Project: Weather App User Design Animation Part 1,2,3
7. Project: Simple Logo Reveal

 

6/ Flat Animation Challenge Projects

1. Design Your Own Flat Animation Scene
2. Animating Fireworks with a Repeater Shape
3. Project
4. Effect’s and Plugins
5. Envato marketplace
6. Instructor Note - Get More Resources and Tips

 

7/ Green Screen (Chromakeying)

1. Remove Green Screen with Keylight 1.2
2. Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground + Parenting
3. Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
4. Adding Motion to the Background Photo with Ripple Effect

 

8/ 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

1. 3D in After Effects + The Camera Tool and Views
2. Swinging 3D Rotating Text Animation + Null Objects
3. Building a 3D Composition
4. Animating in 3D Space
5. Creating Stars in After Effects

 

9/ Effects & Presets and Motion Tracking

1. Text Animations
2. Radial and Linear Wipe Effect
3. Color Correction
4. Motion Tracking Basics
5. Attaching Text & Visual Effects to Video Clip with Tracking
6. Tracking Scale and Rotation
7. Adding More Details to Your Text

 

10/ Exporting From After Effects

1. Exporting H.264 Files
2. Exporting with a Transparent Background
3. Exporting Videos with Adobe Media Encoder
4. Final Project Review.

Curriculum