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Adobe After Effects: Advanced Shape Layers

Name: Adobe After Effects: Advanced Shape Layers
Rating: 4.0 (283 reviews)

Animate shape layers to create hip, professional, and powerful motion graphics in After Effects. Start learning today!

Created byPhil Ebiner, Video School

Last updated 1/2018

English

What you'll learn

Become After Effects Master!
Learn to be more creative while making motion graphics
Be able to replicate hip After Effects shape animations

Course content

4 sections • 20 lectures • 3h 31m total length

Course Promo1:20
Welcome to the After Effects shape layer course. We'll learn many advanced techniques for creating fun motion graphics. Enjoy the course!
Course Overview - Shape Refresher11:17
In this lesson, we'll go over the basics of shape layers. This lesson is for After Effects beginners, but may be good for you motion graphic veterans as well.

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Project Files // Downloadable Materials0:10
In this lesson, download all supplemental materials so that you can follow along with me in After Effects.

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Stroke vs. Fill11:55
In this lesson, we'll cover the basics of fill & stroke properties.

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Important Message About Udemy Reviews2:14
Here's a quick message from Phil about leaving a review for this course.
Trim Paths14:34
In this video tutorial, we'll go over the trim paths effect, which is one of the most important building blocks for this course. Using trim paths will help you create high-quality motion graphics like you see online and on television.

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Using the Repeater12:13
In this video tutorial, we'll cover the repeater effect. I'll show you how to speed up the process of creating motion graphics tenfold.

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The Wiggle Effect9:55
In this video tutorial, I go over another shape layer effect, the wiggle effect. This effect makes lines and text wiggle!

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It's all about accents...13:59
In this video tutorial, I go over the theory and practice of adding accents to your motion graphics. This is what will take your motion graphics to the next level. It's all about the details.

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Adding Accents12:27
In this video tutorial, we work on a project that uses accents.

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Custom Transitions20:33
In this video tutorial, we do a project creating custom transitions with shapes.

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Repeater Transitions12:11
In this video tutorial, we work on a project that uses the repeater effect to create custom transitions in After Effects.

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Text Reveal with Venetian Blinds9:45
In this video tutorial, we create a cool text animation using trim paths and the Venetian Blinds effect. We also turn our text into shape layers, which is useful for certain applications.

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Cool Maps17:22
In this video tutorial, we work on a cool maps motion graphic project using the skills learned in this class.

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Bouncing Ball - Part I - Graph Editor11:31
In this video tutorial, we go over the basics of the graph editor and use it in a project to create a bouncing ball. This video tutorial is taken from the Video School Online YouTube channel.

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Bouncing Ball - Part II8:28
In this video tutorial, we go over the basics of squeeze and stretch, using it in a project to create a bouncing ball. This video tutorial is taken from the Video School Online YouTube channel.

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Hipster Circles20:20
In this video tutorial, we go over the use of hipster circles (spheres with animated trim paths). This real world project is something you would see in an explainer video.

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Clean Lower Thirds - with Shape Layer Technique18:05
Check out this tutorial on creating a clean lower third graphic using the techniques we learned in this course. You can find more great tutorials for free at VideoSchoolOnline.com

More lower thirds from VideoHive: http://videohive.net/item/clean-lower-thirds/4152262?ref=philebiner

This After Effects tutorial will teach you how to recreate this clean lower thirds found on VideoHive. It is one of the most popular lower thirds, and I thought it would be great to teach people how to create themselves. You can also purchase it using the link above.

Requirements

Any version of After Effects (free trial is fine!)
Having taken my After Effects Complete Course is recommended for beginners.

Description

You want to create more advanced motion graphics with Adobe After Effects, right?

It's great to have you here. I LOVE CREATING MOTION GRAPHICS with After Effects.

Maybe you know a little bit about After Effects, or maybe you're brand new to After Effects.

This course is perfect for anyone that wants to learn how to design their own creative graphics with After Effects.

What makes me qualified to teach you?

My name is Phil and I'm a professional motion graphics artist. Plus, I'm the creator of some of the world's most popular After Effects courses - with over 150,000 students and thousands of 5-star reviews like these ones from this course:

If you want to learn some cool effects very efficiently and quickly, then this is the course for you. - David Van Melkebeke

Phil does a great job of explaining how to create some really cool motion graphics by showing step by step how he created some fun and very useful motion graphics. I've been using After Effects for 5 years and have seen a bunch of tutorials, but I've found his tutorials to be outstanding as he takes you through from start to finish. - Scott Meister

I learned something new with each of the lessons, the instructor explains good and very clear, the production of the videos is very good and I had no problem. I RECOMMEND THE COURSE! - Jose Felipe Arana Garcia

My Promise to You

I'll be here for you every step of the way. If you have any questions about the course content or anything related to this topic, you can always post a question in the course or send me a direct message.

I want to make this the best course on how use Adobe After Effects. So if there is any way I can improve this course, just tell me and I'll make it happen.

What's this course all about?

You don't have to be an After Effects genius to be able to make amazing motion graphics. These video tutorials are at the perfect pace for beginners and intermediate After Effects users.

The course starts with video tutorials on shape theory and techniques. We go over the basic process of creating shape motion graphics. Then we go dive deeper by using these shape layer animations to create professional motion graphic projects. I'm with you every step of the way, and am always available for questions.

BONUS: Follow along with a downloadable project files.

Knowing how to use Adobe After Effects is a great skill to have that is in demand and highly marketable.

With our 30-day 100% money back guarantee, there is nothing holding you back from jumping in right now and trying the course out.

Go ahead and click the enroll button, and I'll see you in lesson 1!

Cheers,

Phil

Who this course is for:

After Effects users
Video Editors
Video makers
Designers

Adobe After Effects: Advanced Shape Layers

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Course content

Course Intro3 lectures • 13min

Basic Shape Transformations6 lectures • 1hr 5min

Real World Projects9 lectures • 2hr 11min

Course Wrap Up2 lectures • 4min

Requirements

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