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After Effects Scripts & Tips: 1 Animation Techniques

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Learn tricks that make working in After Effects easier and more fun. Explore free scripts you can install for a faster workflow and learn about animation, design theory, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Course intro: Up your animation game, quick and simple
  • Using this course
1. Awesome Free Scripts
  • Installing and using scripts in after effects
  • Animation Composer: Plugin
  • Animation Composer: Extra scripts
  • Duik for better keyframing
  • Scale and rotate motion paths script
  • First Vertex toolkit script
  • Better layer & precomp organization withtrue comp duplicator & un-precompose scripts
2. Mograph Theory in Practice
  • The laws of physics and rules of animation
  • Easing motion with animation patterns script
  • Creating follow-through, overlap, and secondary action with Dulk
  • Animating squash and stretch
  • Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle
3. Animation Quick Tips
  • Animating fast with Motion Sketch and Smoother
  • Linking animated properties with expression pickwhip
  • A better scale zoom with exponential scale
  • Creating camera shake
4. Common Problems and Quick Fixes
  • Fixing an anchor point
  • Quick timing adjustments with time-remap & duik morpher
  • Working around expressions in a project
5. Quick Projects
  • Quick stop motion style with Tickler
  • Multi-layer animated presets with layer library
  • Using the Puppet tool outside of puppets
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Owen Lowery

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