Topics include:
– Using the CINEMA 4D renderer
– Workflow improvements
– Syncing with Typekit
– Applying Unmult as an animation preset
– Performance enhancements
– Collaborating on team projects
After Effects CC 2017: Motion Graphics Training
After Effects CC 2017. If you’re new to After Effects, check out After Effects CC 2017 Training: The Basics; In the course, instructor Mark Christiansen starts from the very beginning, introducing you to the interface and other basic concepts to help you understand what After Effects is and how it’s used in a variety of workflows. In this course, Alan Demafiles covers all the main aspects of this program, providing you with a solid foundation for using this tool in a motion graphics context. To begin, Alan breaks down the After Effects into six foundations, each of which serves as the basis for subsequent course chapters. He covers how shape layers offer some of the power of Illustrator vector tools right in After Effects, and shares basic animation techniques like creating looped animation with expressions. In addition, he also touches on the program’s powerful Type tool and shows you how adding type animators can make a unique text manipulation possible. He wraps up the course with a project-based chapter that helps to reinforce your new skills and provides you with valuable workflow tips.
Topics include:
– Working with shape layers, animation, compositing, and type
– Using Basic After Effects 3D
– Building a basic camera rig
– Using the Cinema 4D Renderer
– Using Cinema 4D Lite
– Creating 3D text and 3D geometry
– Adding compositions to the Render Queue
– Recording Multiple Files with the Render Queue
– Using Adobe Media Encoder
– Using
Prerenders – Collapsing Transformations
After Effects CC 2017: VFX Training
Learn how to create stunning visual effects with one of the most widely-used and highly-composited compositing applications on the market – Adobe After Effects CC 2017. Although this is a introductory course, if you’re brand new to After Effects, check out After Effects CC 2017 Training: The Basics; In the course, instructor Mark Christiansen starts from the very beginning, introducing you to the interface and other basic concepts to help you get up and running with the popular program. In this course, Alan Demafiles dives into the fundamentals you need to start creating visual effects with After Effects CC 2017. Discover how to work with green screen footage, use rotoscoping to separate backgrounds from background, track footage, and add your own 3D elements to a scene Learn how to use particles to create fire use noise to replace the sky, and more. In the final, project-based chapter, reinforcing your new skills by putting techniques into practice using real-world scenarios.
Topics include:
– Creating transparency
– Tracking
Masks in Motion – Using the Roto Brush Tool
– Isolating key elements with garbage masks
– Creating a light wrap
– Working with trackers
– Working with 3D layers
– Creating destruction with Shatter
– Creating fire with particles
– Distorting layers With the Puppet Tool
– Compositing 3D renders
– Working with Rendering
After Effects CC 2017 Training: Editors and Post
In this course, Alan Demafiles covers the main aspects of Post Effects commonly used in editing and post production: masks, shapes, types, logos, stills, animating, rendering, and exporting. To begin, Alan compares After Effects to Premiere Pro so you can see similarities and differences. Then he dives into hands-on demonstrations of how to limit effects with masks, create elements with shape layers, use text templates, animate a logo, and create a 3D type extrusion. Next he shows you how to work with imported pictures, create a Z-space camera montage, change the speed of animations, and more. He wraps up by walking through the outputting steps and then kicks off a challenge exercise where you can put your skills into practice.
Topics include:
– Linking Premiere Pro and After Effects dynamically
– Navigating timeline layers
– Working with keyframes
– Precomping elements
– Animating mask reveals and tracking masks
– Creating elements with shape layers
– Animating shapes and text
– Working with Illustrator files
– Animating a logo
– Creating a 3D type extrusions
– Creating a simple camera in Z -space montage
– Keying video with Keylight
– Batch rendering and Dynamic Link rendering
After Effects Scripts & Tips: 1 Animation Techniques
Discover the tactics, tricks, and workarounds that can make work in After Effects easier and more fun. Owen Lowery introduces various free scripts that you can install for better functionality and faster workflow, discusses animation and design theory, and shows simple, effective ways to put that theory into practice. He guides you through several solutions to the types of common problems that users of New After Effects tend to run into. Plus-as this course does not build from lesson to lesson-you can dive into whichever topic piques your interest.
Include Topics:
– Installing and using scripts in After Effects
– The laws of physics and rules of animation
– Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle
– fast Animating with Motion Sketch and Smoother
– Fixing an anchor point
– Working around expressions in a project
– Quick stop motion style with Tickler
– Using the Puppet tool outside the puppets
After Effects Scripts & Tips: 2 Design Theory & Animation
After Effects Scripts & Tips explores the best free third-party scripts along with tactics, tricks, and workarounds that make working in After Effects easier, more productive, and much more fun. In this course, the instructor Owen Lowery focuses on the theories of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity (CRAP) and shows simple, effective ways to put that theory into practice. Learn about color management and how the underlying meaning of colors affects your design. Discover innovative ways to incorporate typography and custom fonts. Find out how to align 3D objects, integrate logo designs into projects, animate text, and more. The lessons are not linear, so feel free to jump around and explore whatever scripts and tips are most interesting to you.
Topics include:
– Focusing on contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity
– Creating vector graphics with the Shapes & amp; Masking script
– Aligning with the Align3D script
– Developing color palettes with Adobe Color Themes and Swatcher Script
– Randomizing colors with Randomatic
– Saving custom fonts with the Font Styles Library plugin
– Animating text with TextEvo
– Texturing quickly with Ray Dynamic Texture
– Customizing font files with FontForge
– Creating infographics
