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Your First After Effects Project

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Add Adobe After Effects to your creative skill set. Learn how to build your first motion graphics project—an animated postcard—using Photoshop and After Effects.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Animating a static design
1. Import and Organize
  • Introduction to After Effects
  • Reviewing the Photoshop design
  • Creating a composition from footage
  • Import, organize, and trim the project
2. Match the Design
  • Matching colors
  • Converting to live text
3. Animation
  • Changing kerning and animating a texture
  • Revealing a layer using a transition
  • Animating text with presets
  • Animating layers using parenting
4. Compositing
  • Replacing clips
  • Creating a mockup, part 1
  • Creating a mockup, part 2
5. Rendering
  • Rendering a master file
  • Exporting to the web
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Eran Stern

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