Adobe After Effects Advanced Course
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Onsite and ONLINE
After Effects Advanced Course
Our in-depth two day course explores existing and exciting new advanced features regularly being added to Adobe After Effects to utilise the whole application to deliver professional outcomes.
Learn detailed real-life expert tips and tricks to create stunning advanced 3D extruded typography and shape layers using the Cinema 4D renderer, complex and compelling infographics, Cinemagraphs, character animations and more. Class projects will teach you how to harness the power and diversity of expressions, scripts, particle simulation Effects, Rotoscoping, advanced 3D camera and lighting setups and the Cinema 4D CINEWARE plugin workflow.
Especially with After Effects, we recommend using the latest version - CC2023 to utilise the dynamic new features and workflows.
Prerequisite: Students should have either completed the After Effects Essentials course or have equivalent experience. An After Effects assessment is available if you are unsure of your user level, please email us at [email protected].
As an Adobe Authorised Training Centre – participants receive upon course completion a Certificate recognised by Adobe.
Training Modules (Overview)
- Advanced Animation Techniques
- Character Animation Techniques
- Advanced 3D
- Colour Correction
- Advanced Compositing
- Advanced Masking
- Advanced Tracking and Stabilizing
- The Power of Expressions in Adobe After Effects
- Advanced Effects
- Project Management
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Course Outline
Advanced Animation Techniques
- Editable Keyboard Shortcuts
- Refining Keyframe Interpolation in the Graph Editor
- Copying/Pasting Motion Paths from Shape Layers and Masks
- Importing Motion Paths from Other Apps
- Collapse Transformations (2D Examples)
- Preparing and Importing Multiple Layers from Adobe Illustrator
- Using Layer Markers and Sequence Markers
- Master Properties
Character Animation Techniques
- Character Animation - Parenting vs Puppet Tool
- Advanced V.S. Legacy Puppet Pin Tool
- Advanced Parenting
- Using Nulls in Parenting
Advanced 3D
- Creating 3D Objects and Scenes
- Multiple Views
- Working with the Unified Camera Tool
- Local, World and Layer Axis Modes
- Material Options
- Animating the Camera with a Null Object
- Auto Orient Layers Towards Camera
- Auto Orient Camera to Path
- Adding Lights and Shadows
- Camera Depth of Field and Material Options
- Nesting and Collapse Transformations (3D)
- Creating a Cinemagraph from a Photo
- Cinema 4D Renderer
- Extruding Text and Shapes in Adobe After Effects
- Environment Layers (Reflections)
Colour Correction
- Lumetri Effect Primary Colour Correction
- LUTs for Professional Stylised Looks (Grades)
- Lumetri & Secondary Colour Correction
- Lumetri Scopes
- Video Limiter Effect
Advanced Compositing
- Roto Brush
- Refine Edge Tool
Advanced Masking
- Selectively Feather Masks
- Tracking Masks
- Compositing Effects Using Masks
- Facial Mask Tracking
Advanced Tracking and Stabilizing
- 3D Camera Tracker Advanced
- Adding Cameras, Graphics and Text
- Creating Shadow Maps
The Power of Expressions in Adobe After Effects (Without having to Learn Code)
- Explanation
- Expressions vs Parenting
- Applying Expressions
- Linking Properties
- Property Link Pickwhip
- Wiggle
- Simple Arithmetic
- Looping Expressions
- Linking Counters and Animation
- Expression Controls
- Copying Expressions
- Finding Expressions
- Expression Presets
- Saving Expressions as Presets
- Convert Audio to Keyframes and Linking with Expressions
- Using Layer Markers to Trigger Expressions
- Create Nulls from Paths Script
- .json & CSV Files to Automate Animation Data Sets
- Property Reference Text Layers
Advanced Effects
- Advanced Effects Path Animation
- Particle Simulations
- Popular Advanced Effects
- Third Party Plugins Overview
Project Management
- Project Settings
- Dependencies Tab - Cleaning Up Projects
- Collecting Files for Archiving and using on Other Computers
- Dynamic Link with Adobe Premiere Pro
- Creating Motion Graphics Templates to use in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Master Properties
- Open Motion Graphics Templates
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