After Effects Advanced

Become an After Effects Pro with our 2 day

Advanced After Effects Course

The Advanced After Effects Course, is a great next step if you have already attended the beginners After Effects course and want to learn the more advanced features for producing motion graphics and visual effects.

During this two day course you will go through advanced masking and keyframing techniques. You will work with path animation tools, learning techniques to fine tune your animations, and apply and customise a variety of effects. Later in the course you will get to work with 3D, understanding 3D layers, as well as customising camera and lighting.

This 2 day course is available as a Live Online course. Alternatively the course can be delivered as a closed course for your team if you prefer

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The After Effects Advanced course covers all the basic skills needed in the post production of professional quality video content.

After Effects Advanced - Course Topics

Animating text layers

  • Animating text along a path
  • Text Animators
  • Animating individual characters
  • Range selectors
  • Advanced Range Selector features

Nesting and Dependancies

  • Precomps
  • Editing precomps
  • Locking panels
  • Using Null objects

Animation and Keyframes

  • Different types of Keyframe
  • Velocity
  • Keyframe shortcuts
  • Keyframe graph editor
  • Proportional Adjustment
  • Snapping to keyframes
  • Keyframe Assistants
  • Easy Ease
  • Time revers Keyframes
  • Animation and behaviour presets
  • Keyframe Interpolation

Masks and Shapes

  • Creating masks
  • Importing masks from Illustrator
  • Animating masks
  • Shape layers
  • Shape layer modifiers
  • Repeater

Path Animation

  • Animating along a vector path
  • Auto orient to the path
  • Creating a path from a nomination path
  • Stroke a path
  • Scribble in a path
  • Other path effects

Effects

  • Radio Waves
  • Particle Effects
  • Compound effects

Keying

  • Using Keylight
  • Using the Roto Brush
  • Simple Wire Removal

Time and Tracking

  • Time re-mapping
  • Time warp
  • Motion Tracking
  • Tracking faces
  • Perspective Corner pinning
  • 3D Camera Tracking

Working with 3D

  • Understanding 3D
  • 3D Layers
  • The 3D Axis
  • Cameras
  • Lights
  • The Unified Camera tool
  • Integration with Cinema 4D

Using Photoshop and Illustrator

  • Working with Photoshop
  • Working with Illustrator

Project Management

  • Collect Files
  • Consolidate Footage
  • Remove Unused Footage
  • Reducing your project

Who should attend this course

This course is aimed at people looking to professionally edit and manipulate video files, adding post production effects to a high standard.

You should have already attended the beginners After Effects course or have equivalent experience

The After Effects Advanced course covers all the basic skills needed in the post production of professional quality video content.

After Effects Advanced - Course Topics

Animating text layers

  • Animating text along a path
  • Text Animators
  • Animating individual characters
  • Range selectors
  • Advanced Range Selector features

Nesting and Dependancies

  • Precomps
  • Editing precomps
  • Locking panels
  • Using Null objects

Animation and Keyframes

  • Different types of Keyframe
  • Velocity
  • Keyframe shortcuts
  • Keyframe graph editor
  • Proportional Adjustment
  • Snapping to keyframes
  • Keyframe Assistants
  • Easy Ease
  • Time revers Keyframes
  • Animation and behaviour presets
  • Keyframe Interpolation

Masks and Shapes

  • Creating masks
  • Importing masks from Illustrator
  • Animating masks
  • Shape layers
  • Shape layer modifiers
  • Repeater

Path Animation

  • Animating along a vector path
  • Auto orient to the path
  • Creating a path from a nomination path
  • Stroke a path
  • Scribble in a path
  • Other path effects

Effects

  • Radio Waves
  • Particle Effects
  • Compound effects

Keying

  • Using Keylight
  • Using the Roto Brush
  • Simple Wire Removal

Time and Tracking

  • Time re-mapping
  • Time warp
  • Motion Tracking
  • Tracking faces
  • Perspective Corner pinning
  • 3D Camera Tracking

Working with 3D

  • Understanding 3D
  • 3D Layers
  • The 3D Axis
  • Cameras
  • Lights
  • The Unified Camera tool
  • Integration with Cinema 4D

Using Photoshop and Illustrator

  • Working with Photoshop
  • Working with Illustrator

Project Management

  • Collect Files
  • Consolidate Footage
  • Remove Unused Footage
  • Reducing your project

Who should attend this course

This course is aimed at people looking to professionally edit and manipulate video files, adding post production effects to a high standard.

You should have already attended the beginners After Effects course or have equivalent experience

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