Intro to After Effects for Designers
Chris Converse
Lessons
Class Description
Get to know the 4th member of the core design applications in Adobe® Creative Cloud. Chances are you know Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. But did you know After Effects supports just as many file formats, provides amazing design and compositing features, and can be used in any print, web, animation, video or photo compositing project?
What you’ll learn:
- The After Effects interface
- Starting a new project from scratch
- How After Effects is similar to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- How the Timeline Panel is similar to Layers
- How the Project Panel is similar to Links
- How the Composition Panel is similar to artboards, or pages
- How to import photos, videos, and artwork into your project
- Applying effects (it’s all about effects!)
- Introduction to animation in the timeline panel
Software Used: Adobe After Effects CC 2017
Class Materials
Bonus Materials with Purchase
Ratings and Reviews
Nelson Mueller
Wonderful After Effects course! He teaches the software so well and in such an easy way, that you will not just know how to but most importantly also 'understand.' I am very happy for the time I invested in this course and I look forward to learn more from him.
Cara Stein
I’ve known for some time that I should learn After Effects, but it seemed so overwhelming and yucky. This course gave me a concise, approachable starting point that gives me the confidence to start making a simple video. I know I’ll learn more as I go. Getting started is the hardest part, and this course has solved that for me. Yay! I especially liked the asides about making the workflow more efficient and about what makes animation more polished. I’d love to see a more in-depth course from this instructor now that I’ve had this taste.
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I've always wondered why video tutorials don't start with the similarities with other Adobe design apps. Those similarities make the intuitive leaps of learning this new experience much easier. Mr. Converse moves at a comfortable, reassuring pace. Very happy I bought this!
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