After Effects for Graphic Designers Intermediate | Training Course
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- 2 day course
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Course Outline
- Optimising Settings and Preferences
- Designing text animators
- Using advanced track mattes
- Using adjustment layers
- Advanced Keyframe animation
- Using basic expressions
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Animating along Paths
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Overview of After Effects for Graphic Designers Intermediate
Course Outline for the After Effects for Graphic Designers Intermediate Training Course
Optimising Settings and Preferences
- Media and Disk Cache
- Autosave
- Customising Export Settings
- Advanced layout tools
- Using Shy layers
Designing text animators
- Creating a bespoke Text animator
- Saving a bespoke text animator
Using advanced track mattes
- Using animated text as masks
- Using Track Mattes to create transitions
- Exploring blend modes
Using adjustment layers
- Masking adjustment layers
- Using the mask feather tool
Advanced Keyframe animation
- Using Graph Editor to customise key frame interpolation
- Understanding and using interpolation options
- Creating acceleration and deceleration in an animation
- Creating a bounce effect
- Linking parameters
Using basic expressions
- Loop
- Wiggle
- Time
Keyboard shortcuts
- Trimming and moving Layers
- Transform Parameters
- Workspace handles
- Frame advance
- Zooming on the Timeline
- Zooming in the Composition window
- Fit to window
- Playback
- Tools
- The Uber Key
- New Compositions
- Composition settings
Animating along Paths
- Animating text along a path
- Animating text along a path in 3D
- Animating objects along paths
- Auto Orient
- Time reverse key frames
- Time Reverse Layer
Source Text
- Using the source text control
- Linking Source Text
Additional Text Animations
- Outline Text draw
- Creating a text counter
- Offset effect
Drawing Text On
- Using Trim Paths and Track Mattes
- Using The stroke effect
Text distortion effects
- Shatter
- Bezier Warp
- Bulge
- CC Bender
- CC Flo Motion
- Griddler
- CC Lens
- CC Slant
- CC Smear
- CC Split
- CC Tiler
- Liquify
- Mesh Warp
- Ripple
- Sphere
- Transform
- Turbulent Displace
- Warp
- Wave Warp
Working in 3D
- Converting layers to 3D
- Working with the z-axis
- Z Positon
- 3D rotation
- 3D tools and views
- 3D Extrude
- Using 3D text animators
- 3D extrude of shapes
- 3D extrude of text
- Creating a spinning extruded logo
- Creating a spinning cube
- Creating a 3D rig using Null layers
- Adding lights
- Adding a camera
Particle Emitters
- Particle world
- Creating clouds of particles using different shapes and objects
- Animating the particles
Compiling your project
- Optimising project settings
- Rendering the composition
Exporting
- Video with Alpha channel
- Exporting Animated GIFs via Adobe Photoshop
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