Introduction to After Effects for Animation - Create Your Own Music Inspired Short
Claire Pinegar, Freelance 2D animator
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Introduction
1:00 -
Touring the interface
8:41 -
Importing assets
8:51 -
Setting up a composition
5:17 -
Layer Types
8:28 -
Layer Modes
4:02 -
Animation basics
15:51 -
Animating pre-compositions
7:03 -
Animating masks
7:47 -
Introduction to exporting
6:14 -
Introduction to shape layers
15:14 -
Converting AI files to shape layers
10:24 -
Path animation
7:01 -
Introduction to working in 3D space
11:51 -
Changing perspective with 2D assets
22:31 -
Introduction to animating text
13:59 -
Tips for polishing your final export
9:07
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About This Class
This class is for designers and illustrators that are looking to bring their vector illustration to life covering a range of different animation methods to create a music based sting.
This class is for those of you who are new to After Effects, so we'll be covering a lot of the basics. However, a good understanding of Illustrator or Photoshop will be useful as a lot of the tools and termonology crosses over into After Effects.
You’ll create a 10-15 second animation that captures the spirit, feel, and excitement of your favorite song, album, record label...you get the idea. I've created a simple piece to take you through key skills in After Effects. You will need Adobe After Effects and Illustrator. Trial versions are avalible on the Adobe website.
Class Breakdown:
- A tour of the interface - How to set up your project and composition and importing assets from outside of after effects
- Layer Types An overview of different layer types.
- Introduction to Animation - Covering the basics of animating the transform properties. Explaining the use of pre-composing and animating within these. How to animate masks and when to use them. Lastly a quick run through of how to export your video so you can share your work so far.
- Introduction to shape layers and animating paths - How to convert Illustrator files to After effects shape layers and how to animate paths.
- Working in 3D space: We’ll be covering the basics of the 3D capabilities within After Effects, This isn't true 3D animation but I’ll be covering tricks such as transforming an object to appear to change to a different perspective.
- We’ll also look into basic text animation and finally some finishing touches to polish your animation.
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fun project and class
Fantastic for a refresher course, or if you've had even a little experience with animating. She's fast, but she covers A LOT. Thanks, Claire!
I would recommend this class but I think the instructor tried to cover too much material in one chunk. The first half moves at a good pace but by the end she's zooming through things so quickly that it's just not worth it to keep up. I think splitting this lesson up into a few parts would work better. That being said, some of the early chapters are really quite good.
Claire Pinegar is a London based freelance Director, Animator and Motion Designer. Working on a variety of projects covering broadcast, web promos, and film trailers, her work ranges from hand-drawn animation to cinematic typographic design. With experience in a film marketing agency, an animation production company and freelancing her work spans a wide range of areas and practices; from exhibition A/V installations to non-profit campaign videos.
She is now producing films primarly for...