After effects advanced

Adobe After Effects Advanced + AI - Training Course

Duration: 20 hours

Teaching Methodology: Hands on

DESCRIPTION

This advanced Adobe After Effects course teaches you advanced techniques such as parenting and nesting, expressions, 3D animations, stabilization, tracking, paint tools, shape layers, and rotoscoping.

OVERVIEW

In this course, students learn how to use Adobe After Effects CC to create advanced motion graphics. They will:

  • Learn about parenting and nesting
  • Use expressions
  • Create 3D Animations
  • Track and stabilize
  • Work with paint, roto, and puppet tools
  • Add shape layers
  • Use Adobe Media Encoder
  • Animate Infographics
  • Use AI tools

AUDIENCE

Graphic designers, art students, art directors, architects, artists, animators, and anyone who is interested in creating 2D motion presentations.

PREREQUISITES

Adobe After Effects Essentials

After Effects Advanced 01
After Effects Advanced 02
After Effects Advanced 03
After Effects Advanced 04

COURSE CONTENTS

08 - Parenting and Nesting

  • Parenting, nesting, and expression defined
  • Assigning a parent
  • Parenting, opacity, and effects
  • Parenting with null objects
  • Nesting to group layers; using guides
  • Editing precomps
  • Nesting a common source
  • Navigating composition hierarchies
  • Sizing precomps
  • Precomposing a group of layers
  • Precomposing a single layer
  • Render order explained
  • Splitting work between comps
  • Precompose options compared
  • Using precomposing to reorder
  • Continuous rasterization
  • Collapsing transformations
  • Compund effects
  • Download Lesson 08
Parenting and Nesting

09 - Expressions and Time Games

  • Using the pick whip to create expressions
  • Altering expressions
  • Stabilizing shadows
  • Matching value ranges
  • Looping keyframes
  • Expression tips
  • The wigglle expression
  • Keyframing the wiggle expression
  • Download Lesson 09
Expressions and Time Games

10 - 3D Space

  • Moving and rotating layers in 3D space
  • Multiplanning effects
  • 3D motion paths
  • Multiple views
  • Adding a camera
  • Using the camera tools
  • Animating cameras
  • Camera depth of field blur
  • 3D lights
  • Material options
  • Ray-traced 3D renderer
  • Extrusion and beveling
  • Refraction
  • Reflections
  • Environment
  • Download Lesson 10
3D Space

11 - Track and Stabilize

  • Warp Stabilizer
  • Reversible Stabilization
  • Point-based tracking and stabilization
  • Creating track points
  • Applying stabilization
  • 2D motion tracking
  • Radio waves effect
  • Tracking with mocha AE CC
  • 3D Camera Tracker
  • Adding 3D Text
  • Download Lesson 11
Track and Stabilize

12 - Paint, Roto, and Puppet Tools

  • Basic Painting
  • Erasing strokes
  • Paint Channels
  • Paint blending mode
  • Brush duration bar
  • Animating strokes
  • Revealing a layer
  • Cloning
  • Transforming strokes
  • Basic Roto Brush
  • Puppet Pin tool
  • Animating puppet pins
  • Download Lesson 12
Paint, Roto, and Puppet Tools

13 - Shape Layers

  • Creating a shape layer
  • Fill and Stroke settings
  • Multiple shapes
  • Even-Odd Fill
  • Shape effects
  • Bezier shapes
  • Convert to Bezier Path
  • Create Shapes from Text
  • Repeater
  • Compound shapes
  • Gradients
  • Wiggle Transform
  • Advanced strokes
  • Create Shapes from Vector Layers
  • Extruding shape layers
  • Download Lesson 13
Shape Layers

14 - AI Tools

  • Content-Aware Fill for Video
  • Roto Brush 2
  • Face-Aware Liquify (via Photoshop)
  • AI-Driven Color Grading & Audio
  • Runway ML for After Effects
  • DeepMotion Animate 3D
  • Firefly & Generative Fill Assets
  • AI-Powered Subtitle & Captioning
  • Download Lesson 14
AI tools

15 - Creating Animated Infographics

  • Animating Lines on Maps
  • Animating Liquid
  • The Typewriter Effect
  • The Hand Writing Effect
  • Animating Sun Rays
  • Animating Infographics
  • Animating Bars
  • Animating Charts
  • Create Explainer Video Animations
  • Download Lesson 15
Shape Layers