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After Effects Advanced

Enhance your animation and motion graphics skills in this self-paced course. From 3D layers and custom shape animations to using expressions for efficiency, you’ll gain the expertise to produce standout visuals.

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Class Description

Description

Master Adobe After Effects at your own pace in this advanced, self-paced course. Learn shape layer animation, dynamic text effects, and 3D workflows while exploring the graph editor, expressions, scripts, masks, and track mattes. Gain hands-on experience through real-world projects that enhance your motion graphics and compositing skills.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to create professional, sophisticated animations from start to finish, bringing your projects to life with polished, dynamic effects. Ideal for those looking to elevate current work or tackle new creative challenges in motion graphics.

What You Will Learn

  • Work with 3D layers, cameras, and lights to create dynamic scenes
  • Create and animate custom shape layers using the Pen tool
  • Develop advanced text animations and save presets for future use
  • Optimize animations with expressions and wire parameters for complexity
  • Enhance audio integration by adding markers and applying audio effects

Course Outline

Working with 3D in After Effects

  • Working with Layers in 3D Space
  • Creating & Animating Camera & Light Layers

Working with Shape Layers

  • Creating & Formatting Shape Layers
  • Creating Custom Shape Layers with the Pen Tool
  • Editing Shape Layer Vertices
  • Working with Shape Layer Effects (Pucker & Bloat, Repeater, Etc.)

Advanced Text Animation

  • Animating Text as a Graphic
  • Working with Dingbat Fonts
  • Creating Custom Text Animators & Saving Presets

Creating Custom Easing with the Graph Editor

  • Using the Graph Editor

Animating with Effects

  • Using Effects

Optimizing Animations with Expressions

  • Adding Expressions to Properties
  • Creating More Complex Expressions
  • Wiring Parameters with Expressions

Beyond Position Keyframes

  • Using the Motion Sketch Panel to Capture Motion
  • Using the Smoother Panel to Soften Movement
  • Using the Nulls to Paths Panel

Working with Audio

  • Adding Markers to Audio
  • Working with Audio Effects
  • Generating Keyframes from Audio Layers

This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.

Refund Policy

  • Students may cancel up to 14 days before the class/program start date and receive a refund, less the registration fee (10% of the undiscounted course price). 
  • Cancellations within 14 days are not permitted, but students may reschedule up to three business days before the class start date.
  • For cancellations and reschedules, please email us at [email protected]

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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