Hi - I'm Tim

Welcome to my Non-Scary Adobe After Effects for Beginners course where we will be covering motion graphics in an easy to digest way.

I'm a senior trainer, and designer at Red Rocket Studio, (and a former university lecturer) working in and around London.

After Effects is one of the best, motion graphics packages available, allowing you to create incredible video effects and 2D animations and is the industry standard for motion graphics. It's been used from everything from simple web ads through to million dollar movies and is a staple of the film industry. I’ve so enjoyed putting this course together to help you create eye-catching marketing materials and social media content, be it TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook etc or other streams where you need video effects.

Through this course, I'll take you step-by-step and guide you through:

Getting to know the interface of After Effects CC
Starting a new composition and using the basic tools
Becoming comfortable with the After Effects CC timeline
Adding video
Adding simple effects and adjustment layers
Using texts and presets
Animating position, scale, rotation, anchor point and opacity
Real world projects such as social media clips and web ads
Motion graphics principles and best practices

On this course you will learn to create:

Text animation
Logo animation
Video effects
Color adjustments
Object transformations
Professional looking video projects which you could use in your portfolio

Adobe AFX has everything you need to create the perfect animation / motion graphic – whether it's for social media, marketing, web, advertising, billboards etc.

This course uses the 2024 version but the techniques will work on most of the earlier versions as well as the slightly updated 2025 version.

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List of marks used: Adobe After Effects logo and Adobe After Effects name are registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and / or other countries.

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