2016-11-26 - New Class, published in November

Create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects

November Class: Create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects - image 1 - student project

In this class you will learn you how you can easily create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects.
(Like the example you see below.)

November Class: Create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects - image 2 - student project

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2016-10-12 - New Class, published in October

Capture the Fall - Create your own Fall Themed Picture borders in Adobe Photoshop

In this class you will learn you how you can easily create your own Fall Themed Picture borders in Adobe Photoshop.
(Like the example you see here.)

November Class: Create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects - image 3 - student project

The process is actually quite easy, and with the supplied pictures of already Isolated leaves, you can start quickly to make your own picture borders, or other Creative Digital Collage / Scrapbook projects.

If you want to use your own images of leaves, you can check out my previous class on how you can make them isolated from their background, together with some tips, that will make using them in these kind of projects more easy. -> Capture the Fall - Isolate Leaves from their background in Adobe Photoshop

At the end of this class, I will show you how easy it is to make a lot of different items, working from this document.

November Class: Create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects - image 4 - student project

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2016-10-12 - Updated the cover image

November Class: Create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects - image 5 - student project

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2016-09-30 New Class:

Capture the Fall - Isolate Leaves from their background in Adobe Photoshop

In this class, I will show you a quick way to Isolate Leaves from their background in Adobe Photoshop.
You can use these files in your Creative Digital Collage / Scrapbook projects.

Where you can find beautiful images of leaves.
What to look for to make a consistent collection of leaves.
How to easily Isolate the leaf from the background in Adobe Photoshop.
How to save the file with transparency.
Tips that will make using these images easy and consistent.

Both the original image as well as the final Isolated image are included in the project section.

So Enroll now and Start Building your collection of Isolated Leaves

November Class: Create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects - image 6 - student project

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2016-07-31 New Class:

Bring Updatable Artwork from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe After Effects

This Class is made to answer a question of a student in a previous class.

About This Class

In this class I will show you a workflow that brings Updatable Artwork from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe After Effects.

Preparing the Illustrator file in a certain way, allows easy animation inside After Effects of individual layers, while still retaining a link to the original Illustrator file, so that changes you make in Illustrator are updated in the linked file inside After Effects, even if those layers are already animated.

Along the way you will find some helpful tips.

This workflow is extremely helpful when you want to make your designs for your Motion Graphic inside Illustrator, and not want to design or rebuild it inside After Effects.

The example that is used in this class, is very basic on purpose, focusing on the technique of bringing it to After Effects.

Normal Link: http://skl.sh/2anOZ8i

Free Link: http://skl.sh/2aGRODz

November Class: Create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects - image 7 - student project

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Class: Simple Animation in After Effects: Get to Know the Wiggle Technique

6th post (2016-03-06)

Changed class title to: Simple Animation in After Effects: Get to Know the Wiggle Technique

Changed intro video to include shots of myself talking

Changed class desription to have a style of "you will learn" instead of "I will show"

5th post (2016-02-25)

Published my class -> http://skl.sh/1PFAYzL

Any feedback is welcome

4rd post (2016-02-24)

Updated the video.
Included a time-lapse part of the After Effects screen as a little demo.
Included a few sentences, and made the sentences follow each other quicker.

https://vimeo.com/156539091
Password: Test_Skilshare_02

3rd pst (2016-02-21)

Intro video complete
It was hard to do, lots of edits, eventually recorded the text sentence be sentence as seperate files.

https://vimeo.com/156156420
Password: Test_Skilshare_02

2nd post (2016-02-18)

Example animation.
The only Key-frames that are used are for fading in and out from black.

November Class: Create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects - image 8 - student project

1st post (2016-02-17)

Hi All,

For my participation to the "Photo Film Teach Challenge: Share Your Passion on Skillshare"

And my steps to my first class

Any feedback is welcome

Class title and description

November Class: Create a Simple Countdown Animation in Adobe After Effects - image 9 - student project

Wiggle it with After Effects, create awesome irregular effects without Key-frames

In this class I show you some simple tricks to use the “wiggle” expression in After Effects to create nice random / irregular changes to properties like: Position, Rotation and Opacity, without the use of Key-frames.

With this technique you can bring a static scene to life, without the need to add a lot off Key-frames.

Based on some simple examples I will show you the possibilities and the power of this technique.
For example:
- How to make the leaves of a tree move in the wind
- Making a simple graphic equalizer
- The flickering of a candle

I provide a project file with and without the effect, so that you can try it out without the need to design something yourself.
(I kept my graphics very basic, because it isn’t about how nice it looks, but what you can with it :) )

Please note, I designed this class with the notion of some basic knowledge of After Effects, If you are a beginner, you are welcome to see the possibilities of this effect.
If you want to get started with learning the program from scratch there are some great beginner classes from awesome teachers here at Skillshare.

Project title and description

Let's wiggle and bring your scene to live now!

For your class project I would love to see what other possibilities you can think of using the wiggle effect on a property to create random / irregular changes to that properties values.

To recap some of the examples I gave, using the wiggle effect on:
- Opacity property, you can make a candle flicker, or a panel full of light blink on and of randomly.
- Rotation property to make the leaves move on a tree
- Scale property to make a mask smaller and larger to reveal parts of the graphic equalizer.

I Included also a project file that you can use as a base to get started. (not yet)

A link to your video lesson outline

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vsttu649H9cGIydQXA1LXZg8f7OpcMfSw7NaoiFxPo0/edit?usp=sharing

This will probally change a little during actual filming

Your introduction video

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A link to your final published class

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