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Skill Overview
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This intermediate-level program is designed to build on your foundational After Effects skills, focusing on more advanced techniques for creating dynamic motion graphics and sophisticated animated typography. The course is perfect for graphic designers ready to elevate their animation skills and will help you develop the expertise needed to produce engaging, high-quality animations for digital media and online platforms. Topics covered include Optimising settings and preferences, Designing text animators, Using advanced track mattes, Using adjustment layers, Advanced keyframe animation, Using basic expressions, Keyboard short cuts, Animating along paths, Source text, Additional text animations, Drawing text on, Text distortion effects, Working in 3d, Particle emitters, Compiling your project and Exporting . Booking a private training session allows you to focus on your exact needs on dates that work best for you or your team. • Sessions can be run online or in person, on your site or at our London training centre. • We manage training for many of the UK’s largest companies, taking care of all the admin, working with you to ensure the perfect course. • Our expert trainers will first understand your requirements and then tailor each session to your exact specification. • We offer a free consultation service to work out every detail of your course. Prices for bespoke sessions with our expert trainers start at £595 + VAT plus £150 per additional person, per day.
Learning Objectives
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Course Outline: Optimising Settings and Preferences • Media and Disk Cache • Autosave • Customising Export Settings • Advanced layout tools • Using Shy layers Designing text animators • Creating a bespoke Text animator • Saving a bespoke text animator Using advanced track mattes • Using animated text as masks • Using Track Mattes to create transitions • Exploring blend modes Using adjustment layers • Masking adjustment layers • Using the mask feather tool Advanced Keyframe animation • Using Graph Editor to customise key frame interpolation • Understanding and using interpolation options • Creating acceleration and deceleration in an animation • Creating a bounce effect • Linking parameters Using basic expressions • Loop • Wiggle • Time Keyboard shortcuts • Trimming and moving Layers • Transform Parameters • Workspace handles • Frame advance • Zooming on the Timeline • Zooming in the Composition window • Fit to window • Playback • Tools • The Uber Key • New Compositions • Composition settings Animating along Paths • Animating text along a path • Animating text along a path in 3D • Animating objects along paths • Auto Orient • Time reverse key frames • Time Reverse Layer Source Text • Using the source text control • Linking Source Text Additional Text Animations • Outline Text draw • Creating a text counter • Offset effect Drawing Text On • Using Trim Paths and Track Mattes • Using The stroke effect Text distortion effects • Shatter • Bezier Warp • Bulge • CC Bender • CC Flo Motion • Griddler • CC Lens • CC Slant • CC Smear • CC Split • CC Tiler • Liquify • Mesh Warp • Ripple • Sphere • Transform • Turbulent Displace • Warp • Wave Warp Working in 3D • Converting layers to 3D • Working with the z-axis • Z Positon • 3D rotation • 3D tools and views • 3D Extrude • Using 3D text animators • 3D extrude of shapes • 3D extrude of text • Creating a spinning extruded logo • Creating a spinning cube • Creating a 3D rig using Null layers • Adding lights • Adding a camera Particle Emitters • Particle world • Creating clouds of particles using different shapes and objects • Animating the particles Compiling your project • Optimising project settings • Rendering the composition Exporting • Video with Alpha channel • Exporting Animated GIFs via Adobe Photoshop
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2 to 6 Weeks
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Course is delivered anytime between Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
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Learners will require access to a laptop with an internet connection and access to the relevant software to enrol on this course. They should also have some previous experience in the subject.
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