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Adobe After Effects Intermediate Training, UK Training, Cut-it Training

ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS FOR DESIGNERS - INTERMEDIATE

Duration: 2 Days

Cost: £600 + VAT

Course Available Online and Onsite

Welcome to the After Effects Intermediate Training for Graphic Designers course!

This intermediate-level program is designed to build on your foundational After Effects skills, focusing on more advanced techniques for creating dynamic motion graphics and sophisticated animated typography.

Perfect for graphic designers ready to elevate their animation skills, this course will help you develop the expertise needed to produce engaging, high-quality animations for digital media and online platforms.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Specifically designed for graphic designers moving into the world of motion graphics, This course aims to deepen your understanding of After Effects, exploring both 2D and 3D animation techniques to enhance your motion graphics projects. By the end of this course, you’ll have mastered the following skills:

Advanced Keyframe Control: Refine your keyframing skills to create smoother, more polished animations with ease.
2D & 3D Animation Techniques: Discover how to work with After Effects' 3D tools, adding depth to your animations and enabling more complex movements.
Photoshop and Illustrator Integration: Seamlessly integrate and animate your Photoshop and Illustrator graphics in After Effects, optimising your workflow and achieving a professional look.
Enhanced Text Animators & Effects: Learn advanced settings for text animators, as well as graphic effects that add flair and sophistication to typography animations.
Rendering & Optimisation: Understand the finer points of rendering and export settings to optimise your animations for screens, social media, and web use, ensuring a high-quality finished product across platforms.

Practical Hands On Approach
Throughout the course, you’ll work through practical exercises designed to enhance your skills progressively. Each exercise will help you gain confidence in using more advanced After Effects tools and effects, giving you the knowledge and practical experience to take on more complex animation projects.

PREREQUISITES

This course is ideal for graphic designers who have basic After Effects experience and want to expand their capabilities, creating captivating animated graphics for professional projects.
Ready to move beyond the basics? Join us to bring your creative ideas to life with motion graphics that captivate and inspire!

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1

Optimising Settings & Preferences

Media & Disc Cache
Autosave
Customising Export Settings
Advanced layout tools
Using Shy layers

Designing text animators

Creating a bespoke Text animator
Saving a bespoke text animator

Using advanced track mattes

Using animated text as masks
Using Track Matte’s to create transitions.
Exploring blend modes

Using adjustment layers

Masking adjustment layers
Using the mask feather tool

Advanced Keyframe animation

Using Graph Editor to customise key frame interpolation
Understanding and using interpolation options
Creating acceleration and deceleration in an animation
Creating a bounce effect
Linking parameters

Using basic expressions

Loop
Wiggle
Time
Follow
Using AI to create a bounce expression

Keyboard short cuts

Layers - Trimming / moving
Transform Parameters
Work space handles
Frame advance
Zooming on the Timeline
Zooming in the Composition window
Fit to window
Playback
Tools
The Uber Key
New Compositions
Composition settings

Animating along Paths

Animating text along a path
Animating text along a path in 3D
Animating objects along paths
Auto Orient
Time reverse key frames
Time Reverse Layer

Day 2
Source Text

Using the source text control
Linking Source Text

Additional Text Animations

Outline Text draw
Creating a text counter
Offset effect
Drawing Text On
Using Trim Paths & Track Mattes
Using The stroke effect

Text distortion effects

Shatter
Bezier Warp
Bulge
CC Bender
CC Flo Motion
Griddler
CC Lens
CC Slant
CC Smear
CC Split
CC Tiler
Liquify
Mesh Warp
Ripple
Sphere
Transform
Turbulent Displace
Warp
Wave Warp

Converting layers to 3D
Working with the z-axis
Z Positon
3D rotation
3D tools and views
3D Extrude
Using 3D text animators
3D extrude of Shapes
3D extrude of text
Creating a spinning extruded logo
Creating a spinning Cube
Creating a 3D rig using Null layers
Adding lights
Adding a camera

Particle Emitters

Particle world

 Compiling your project
Optimising project settings
Rendering the composition

Exporting

Video with Alpha channel
Exporting Animated Gifs via Adobe Photoshop