I remember being terrified when I first looked at AfterEffects. I'm going to hold your hand as we tour the interface, investigate some key concepts for working with the software, and examine a few animation principles. I'll share my workflow from concept to published animation and you'll follow the same steps as you make your own animation to post to Instagram. This class is suitable for anyone who is new to AfterEffects and/or 2D animation. It's the class I needed when I first started making animation. Let's roll!
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Syllabus
- Introduction
- Project brief
- Generating ideas
- Storyboarding
- Create a colour palette
- Orientation vs mastery
- Tour of the interface
- Keeping organised
- Designing for animation
- Importing assets from illustrator
- Creating assets in AfterEffects
- Animation principles
- Setting keyframes
- Previewing animation
- Easing
- The graph editor
- Parenting layers
- Null layers
- Masking
- Track mattes
- Precomposing
- Making seamless loops
- Expressions
- 3D layers
- Rendering your animation
- Sharing on Instagram
Taught by
Neil Lawson