A Quick Start to Enable Your After Effects Skills
  • How to Start Motion Graphics Now!
  • Download the Resources Required for this section
  • Getting ready to start your first animation
  • Dive in for beginners: Getting the Graphics
  • Dive in for beginners: Create your first Motion Graphics
  • Assignment: Render your work and upload to Social Media
  • How about Visual Effects?
  • VFX for beginners: Change colors in a defined video area
Working in After Effects CC: An overview of the Interface and Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Introduction to this section
  • How to Download Your Project Files
  • Download your Project and Footage Files for this section
  • After Effects Interface - Workspaces
  • How to Adjust and Move the Panels
  • How to Create a New composition from Footage
  • How to Create a Blank Composition
  • When the Footage goes Missing
  • The Visual Keyboard Shortcuts' Editor
  • After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts - Documentation and Adobe Reference
Introduction to Simple Shapes and Text Layers
  • Introduction to Simple Shapes and Text Layers
  • How to Create and Edit Text Layers
  • Inside the Shape Layer - Simple Overview
  • How to Create and Edit Shape Layers
How to Create Motion (Animate) - Create Your First Motion Graphics Projects
  • How to Acquire Top Animation Skills
  • Download your Project and Footage Files for this section
  • Setting the Anchor Point Preference
  • Creating Motion : Concepts and detailed overview
  • How to Create a full Motion Projects - Concepts & Methods
  • First Project: Design the Layout
  • First Project: Animate the Layers
  • First Project: Sequence your Animation
  • The Flood News Project
  • Second Project - Flood News : Design
  • Second Project - Flood News : Animate
  • Second Project - Flood News : Sequence
  • Introduction to the YouTube Project
  • The YouTube Project: Design/Animate/Sequence
  • The YouTube Project: Reversing the Animation
  • Your Challenge & Practice Activity - A full Motion Graphics Project
  • Challenge & Practice Activity: Design your graphics
  • Challenge & Practice Activity: Animate your layers
  • Challenge & Practice Activity: Sequencing your layers
Animating Illustration - Animate Vector Graphics
  • Animating Illustration
  • How to set up the illustration in Adobe Illustrator
  • How to import into After Effects
  • Animating the illustration
  • Sequencing the animation
  • How to safely update artwork in After Effects
Create and Publish your Videos to Social Media
  • Your Learning Take away from this Section
  • Download your Project and Footage Files for this section
  • First things first: Few things to take care of
  • Create Video using the Add to Render Queue Option
  • Create Pro Videos using the Adobe Media Encoder (Recommended)
  • When Adobe Media Encoder does not Pop Up
  • Reducing the Video file size
  • Practice Activity: Upload your work
Working with Compositions - Layers, Videos and Composition's Editing Techniques
  • Introduction to this section
  • Download Your Project file for this Practice Activity
  • Create a Composition from Multiple Footage
  • Create a Composition in CC 2018 Onward
  • Dropping / Trimming your Videos
  • Shifting Layer Content - Using the Pan Behind tool
  • Creating Split Layers
  • Trim Comp to a defined Work Area
  • Creating Slide Shows: Sequencing layers
  • Extracting & Lifting Work Area
  • How to use the Source (Footage) Panel
  • How to Use the Layer Panel
Spatial and Temporal Interpolation - Motion Path and Speed Control
  • Your Learning Take away from this Section
  • Download the Practice Activity Project File
  • Motion Path - Overview and definitions
  • The Spatial Interpolation
  • The Temporal Interpolation
  • How to use the Speed Graph Editor
  • How to use the Value Graph Editor
  • Upgrading Motion Path Preferences
  • Practice Activity (Apply what you learnt)
  • Practice Activity Tutorial
Essential Reveal Techniques with Track Mattes and Pre-Comps
  • Your Learning Take away from this Section
  • Download your Project and Footage Files for this section
  • Revealing Layers with Track Mattes
  • How to use the Alpha Inverted Track Mattes
  • How to use the Luma Track Mattes
  • How to use the Luma Inverted Track Mattes
  • Animating Track Mattes - Another way to reveal Layers
  • Pre-Comp Techniques to Reveal Layers
  • Pre-Comps Region of Interest
  • Create Track Matte from Pre-Comps
  • Create Track Matte from Text Layers
  • Practice Activity: The Luma Matte Challenge
  • Practice Activity: The Luma Matte Challenge
  • Practice Activity: Rabbit out of the Hat and The Magician Show