After Effects : Create Motion Graphics & Advertising Videos

Import Illustrator and Photoshop files into After Effects, choosing footage or composition with retain layer sizes. Work on individual layers, edit layer styles, and preserve Photoshop guide lines.

Explore shape layers in After Effects by creating rectangles, circles, polygons, and stars, and adjusting fill, stroke, and layer properties.

Apply masking in After Effects to reveal specific parts of an image, adjust mask shapes, feather, opacity, and expansion, and combine multiple masks with add, subtract, intersect, or difference.

Craft a mobile phone symbol using a single shape layer and multiple masks, then animate mask paths with keyframes for a springy, bouncy motion and refined timing.

Master advanced masking in after effects by creating and animating layered masks with stroke, adjusting brush hardness, opacity, and start/end points to reveal images or text.

Explore how layer stacking order in shape layers controls visibility and how fill and stroke affect shapes above, using a polystar and grouping to isolate effects; bezier paths come next.

Explore merging paths in After Effects to combine multiple shapes into one, using add, subtract, intersect, and exclude intersections modes, and learn to animate via shape properties and grouping.

Shows when to use shape properties vs layer properties to maintain corner roundness while scaling a rounded rectangle, considering the anchor point, and creating a simple keyframe animation.

Learn how adjustment layers colorize and apply effects globally to all layers beneath, saving time. Use tint and glow to enhance the digital design and control which layers are affected.

Learn how to apply and customize layer styles in After Effects using stroke, bevel and emboss, drop shadow, gradient overlay, and blending modes to create depth and metallic text effects.

Master layer switches and blending modes in After Effects, including solo and shy, to control visibility and focus; apply gradient ramp and overlay, then compare multiply and screen results.

Learn to use track matte in After Effects to reveal a layer through alpha matte, alpha inverted matte, and luma matte, offering an easier alternative to masking, with practical examples.

Master layer snapping in After Effects: shift enables straight-line movement, and ctrl or command snaps to boundaries or any shape point, with automatic snapping via the selection tool.

Create radar-style visuals using shape layers, radial gradient fills, and the mask feather tool, then prep for key frame interpolation.

Master temporal interpolation in After Effects to control animation speed, while understanding its relation to motion path, key frames, and easing methods like Bezier, linear, and easy ease.

Use the graph editor to control temporal interpolation with easy ease, shaping keyframe curves for slow starts and finishes, and apply these techniques to scale and position animations.

Create a web login animation using a circle with a central anchor, rotating via keyframes, and graph editor with easy ease to slow the start and end.

Apply keyframe velocity to control interpolation in After Effects by adjusting incoming and outgoing velocity and influence, creating precise motion without relying solely on the graph editor.

Explore spatial interpolation in motion graphics by turning a linear motion path into a bezier path with key frames and handles to create smooth, custom animation paths.

Create a motion path with freehand using motion sketch and let After Effects auto-generate key frames. Fine-tune smoothness, tolerance, and rove across time to maintain constant speed.

Use sequence layers to create a photo gallery animation by revealing images in order with controlled overlap and transitions. Adjust overlap timing and choose transitions like cross dissolve.

Create a USB drive morphing sequence using rounded rectangles, Bezier paths, and color changes; fix alpha and circle matte issues and apply easy ease.

Create morphing shapes by turning a circle into a rectangle inside a water glass, using keyframes, graph editor, easy ease, and alpha matte to craft smooth transitions and dynamic motion.

Create morphing shapes animation by duplicating and pre-compose layers, adjusting timing with keyframes, opacity, and alpha matte to simulate coffee filling a mug, plus stroke and pour effects.

Explore advanced After Effects stroke tricks to create dashed lines with dash and gap parameters, offsets, and rounded caps, then build animated shapes with shape layers and a null layer.

Learn to animate strokes with trim paths in After Effects, controlling start, end, and offset, using keyframes, graph editor, and text shape techniques for dynamic motion graphics.

Build a real world motion graphic by modeling a key from shapes, morphing circles to rectangles, and refining timing with the graph editor and a null object controlling animations.

Master the repeater in After Effects to duplicate shapes, control copies, position, rotation, scale, and opacity, and combine repeaters with trim path for advanced circular and center-based animations.

Learn to make text follow a custom path in After Effects by drawing a path, applying mask path, and tuning margins, perpendicular alignment, and momentum with keyframes, graphs, and tracking.

Learn to use after effects source text and other text options to craft a coding animation, including typewriter effects, range selector opacity, and stroke and blending controls.

Explore text animation in After Effects by previewing and applying predefined text effects, using a composition and background elements, range selectors, scale, and easing to craft engaging text animations.

Learn to create motion graphics with built-in After Effects particles, using cc particle world, adjusting emitter settings, particle types, size, color, gravity, and speed for dynamic visuals.

Explore 3D layers in After Effects, transforming position, scale, and rotation along the z axis to understand perspective. Compare local and world axis modes and multi-view setups.

Create a small 3D animation reel in After Effects using a null controller and 3D layers, with keyframed rotation, scale, masking, and a flipping sequence.

Learn how After Effects uses 3D layers with cameras, including two-node and one-node options, angle of view, focal length, and orbit, zoom, and position controls.

Create depth of field in after effects with a 50mm camera, enable depth of field, and link focus distance to the point of interest using 3D text layers.

Explore creating true 3D in After Effects CS6 by using the ray-trace 3D renderer, enabling GPU support, applying extrusion, adding lights and a camera to reveal depth and shading.

Learn to create a 3D globe using the CC Sphere effect in After Effects, adjusting radius, rotation, and light shading, with alpha track matte and pre-compose steps.

Render after effects projects with Adobe Media Encoder by selecting Vimeo HD 1080p 29.97 and H.264 MP4, choosing presets, naming the output, and saving to disk, and monitor RAM.

Learn to output ram previews outside After Effects by saving as mp4 with h.264, using the render queue, and comparing high- and low-quality previews for speed and size.

Export your project as png image sequences for high-quality, alpha-enabled compositing, reimport them into After Effects as a sequence, match frame rates, and render in parts for reliability.

Learn how memory and multiprocessing in After Effects affect ram previews and rendering, using default settings, purging memory, and emptying disk cache to optimize performance.

Learn to create and save a custom output module preset in After Effects, configure H.264 MP4 export with bitrate and audio checks, and manage presets.

Learn to customize render file names in After Effects by adding details to the output name — composition name, dimensions, frame rate, and duration — and save presets.

Consolidate footage to remove duplicates and frame rate differences, remove unused footage, and reduce the project from the main composition to streamline files for templates.

Collect all used assets into a single package, using After Effects collect files with reduce project for all comps, then hand over a bundled folder with footage and quick report.

Discover how third party software enhances After Effects with scripts and plug-ins, from small ready-made tools to powerful red giant trapcode suite, used for visual effects and color grading.

Break a single image into masks, convert to shape layers with a script, and animate 3D rotations, positions, and anchors to craft a complex motion graphics sequence in After Effects.

Explore using the Newton plugin in After Effects to create 2D physics simulations with shape layers, gravity, collisions, density, and static bodies, plus export settings.

Explore Newton physics in After Effects by simulating dynamic, kinetic, and magic bodies, using keyframes, velocity tools, convex hull, finite ground, and collision groups to choreograph interactions.

Explore creating motion graphics with physics simulation in After Effects: connect objects using distance and pivot joints, anchor points, gravity, and pendulum setups to control motion.

Build a piston joint animation in Newton, using anchor points, pivot alignment, and grouping to control collisions, with density and forces to enhance realism, without keyframes in After Effects.

Explore Plexus in After Effects, expanding coloring options, physics render, and color maps, then wrap particles in shapes like a cube while adjusting lighting and ambience.

Create a long shadow effect in After Effects by duplicating shapes with a repeater and with built-in effects, converting text to shapes, adjusting color and opacity, and animating keyframes.

Learn to synchronize animations with the voiceover in a real-world motion graphics workflow, using After Effects to manage timeline, emissions, and transitions across a video comp.

Explore morphing shapes in After Effects by building symbols from circle and triangle, using a repeater and shape transformation, and refining timing with keyframes and path adjustments.

Learn to morph shapes in after effects by building a gas-station scene, adjusting rectangles, windows, and rounded corners, and animate with keyframes, color, and position for dynamic motion graphics.

Master morphing shapes in After Effects by cloning layers, trimming keyframes, and animating circles and rectangles with masks and trim path for precise timing.

Animate a company logo in After Effects by morphing shapes, expanding a circle, and revealing text beneath with a logo pop, using keyframes and pre-compositions.

Create a calendar animation in After Effects by breaking complex motion into pieces, rotating while scaling, and using masks, radial effects, and page-turn techniques to reveal dates.

Create a 3D calendar animation in after effects by colliding back-and-forth symbols, applying motion blur, parenting to a null, and aligning through four views and precise rotations.

Explore practical after effects techniques for advanced animations, including trimming paths, masks, repeaters, logo reveals, icon and text transitions, and a snow scene with light sweep effects for advertising videos.

Learn to create 3D revolving circles in After Effects by building an atom-like structure, pre composing layers, using Cinema 4D, and animating with rotations, duplicates, and opacity.

Create a layered 3D building in after effects by extruding concentric circles, applying a radial VIPR effect, and animating with a camera while preserving transparency.

Build a 3D base from four wheels and three circles, adjust extrusion depth and color, then animate with camera rotation, keyframes, and subtle opacity changes in After Effects.

Finish the 3d building animation by reversing the camera and animating circles with trim path keyframes, color variation, and apply the radial VIPR effect to the main project.

Master compositing in After Effects by integrating a 3D building animation, preserving transparency, and using trim path, circle and cube animations, light beams, and controller layers.

Create a 3d laptop animation by dividing the scene, turning layers into 3d, flipping them with a centered anchor, and adding camera movement to reveal a white screen.