The structure of the course
  • About the course's structure - DOWNLOAD PROJECT FILES HERE -
The basics of Adobe Photoshop
  • Why Photoshop is useful for this course?
  • The basics of Photoshop - interface
  • Importing files and important tools
Prepare the image file for After Effects
  • Creating the folder system
  • Preparing the PSD file for After Effects
The basics of After Effects
  • Settings and interface of After Effects
  • Importing files to After Effects
  • Timeline and keyframes
  • The effect panel and the effect control panel
  • Creating solid layers, text layers, adjustment layers and null objects
  • 3D in After Effects
  • Precomposing
Animating - 2D to 3D
  • Importing the prepared image and setting up the 3D space
  • Set up the camera
  • Exporting the project to a video file
Make your animation more cool - modelling slow motion
  • About the puppet tool - DOWNLOAD PROJECT FILES HERE -
  • Animating with the puppet pin tool
Import your animations in one video project
  • Importing After Effect projects to each other
  • Thank you! Good bye and good luck! - BONUS MATERIALS -
  • BONUS LECTURE - SAMPLE BIRD - HOWTO