After Effects Essentials for Beginners

Name: After Effects Essentials for Beginners
Rating: 4.4 (716 reviews)

Just the necessary stuff you need to create your first video!

Created byDmitry Knyazev

Last updated 8/2016

English

What you'll learn

Create your first video in After Effects
Create characters in After effects without using any other software
Learn how to render correctly and what to use for compression

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 42m total length

Introduction2:32
Creating Your Project3:08
Shortcuts3:24
Positioning3:38
Keyframes2:52
Easy Ease3:19
Pen Tool: Shapes4:40
Make it Move3:58
Learn two ways to animate characters in After Effects: path-based keyframe animation and puppet pin tool, including copying keyframes and importing pre-made characters from Photoshop or Illustrator.
Final Project8:45
Tips and Goodbye6:22

Requirements

Any version of After Effects, and nothing else. All the stuff we are going to create is going to be in AE.

Description

This course will show you how to create your first motion graphics video in After Effects. This course is great for people who want to learn the essentials of After Effects without wasting countless hours. This course covers things like the general overview of the software, working with keyframes, creating shapes and characters with pen tool, animating with puppet pin tool, and many more. You will also learn what preset to use and how to render the video properly.

The course does not cover all the aspects of After Effects, just the ones you will need if you are just starting to work with motion graphics. Everything comes with time, and first of all you need to learn the basics. Then you can move one to something more complex.

Who this course is for:

This course is mainly for absolute beginners. If you are already comfortable using After Effects, you will probably know most of this stuff. But there are some tips and tricks I teach so worth checking it out!