Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
Intermediate- and advanced-level skills to make your motion graphics stand out from the rest.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
Building on the topics taught in our introductory course, this course teaches techniques in the following areas to power-user level:
• Advanced Creative Cloud workflow
• Track mattes and masks
• Time remapping
• Keying
• Content-Aware tools
• Animation and expressions
• Rotoscoping
• Tracking
• 3D
Course Conten:t
Intermediate Level Topics
Advanced Creative Cloud workflow
• Bring a Premiere Pro sequence or project into After Effects
• Creating Motion Graphic templates for use in Premiere Pro
• Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files
• Creating shape layers from Illustrator files
• Creating text layers from Photoshop files
• Archiving your After Effects projects
• Consolidating files for archiving
Track Mattes and Masks
• Creating masks
• Creating track mattes
• Differences between masks and track mattes
• Animating masks and track mattes
Time Remapping
• Time remapping techniques
• Using Time Warp for slow motion techniques
• Creating slow or fast motion with Graph Editor
Keying
• Keylight
• Importing green screen image sets as a sequence
• Replacing green screen backgrounds
• Replacing objects in the background
Advanced Level Topics:
Content-Aware tools
• Content-Aware Fill
• Using Content-Aware Fill – a practical example
Animation and Expressions
• Creating your own text animators
• Text on a path animations
• Creating object reveals effects with Trim Paths operator
• Understanding expressions
• Creating animated infographics using expressions
• Creating looping animations using expressions
• Creating animated snow and rain effects
Rotoscoping What is rotoscoping?
• Rotoscoping workflow
• Refining the edges
Tracking
• Tracking moving objects in videos
• Using tracking for screen replacements
• Tracking people in videos
• Blurring/pixelating people’s faces
• 3D tracking
• Using Mocha AE to solve difficult tracks and perform screen replacements
3D
• Understanding 3D in After Effects
• What can be done with 3D in After Effects?
• Creating 3D layers
• 3D extrusions
• 3D rendering engines
• Adding lights and creating shadows
• Adding cameras and animating them
COURSE PREREQUISITES
You should have a good working knowledge of After Effects, i.e. be familiar with the topics taught in our Introduction to After Effects course
METHOD OF DELIVERY
Training is designed for the busy professional, being short and intensive and combining lecture and demonstration. Practical exercises carried out under guidance help you learn the techniques taught.
You have ample opportunity to discuss specific requirements with the trainer.
COURSE MATERILAS & CERTIFICATE
You’ll receive:
• A comprehensive training guide and practice files.
• An e-certificate (PDF) confirming successful course completion.