After Effects Essentials for Beginners

Learn the After Effects interface, organize files in the project panel, work with compositions and keyframes, and use a standard workspace with shortcuts to speed up your workflow.

Create your first composition by right-clicking and choosing a preset like 720 or 1080p at 25 fps. Add a solid background and adjust its color.

Master essential after effects shortcuts to speed up workflows by selecting shapes with number keys, cycling with q, panning with space, and cropping render areas with b and end.

Learn to position text and layers in After Effects by using guidelines and center the anchor point for centered composition, adjust text color, and apply hex codes for lower thirds.

Open the transform panel, use stopwatches to create keyframes, and note that changing a value generates an automatic keyframe while you adjust scale, rotation, opacity, and anchor point.

Create and adjust keyframes for position and scale, then apply easy ease to smooth curves. Explore editing multiple keyframes for a bounce and professional motion.

Learn to use the pen tool to create and animate shapes in After Effects, add ice inside shapes, and change colors for a simple character within a 10 adp composition.

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.

Learn to build a logo animation in After Effects by creating a centered circle, applying color and stroke, adding text, animating transforms, and importing graphics.

Learn tips on compression, color palettes, free fonts, plugins from east crypts dot com, stock footage from forest, and saving often to prevent loss.