DataLife Engine - Softnews Media Group

This course is project-based so we will be creating 11 different kinds of animated text and motion graphics projects. Each one builds on the skills of the previous project so you can start with little to no knowledge of After Effects and gradually gain a deep knowledge by following along with the progressively more advanced projects.

If you've never opened After Effects, I recommend first quickly watching Mastering The Basics (less than an hour), to get up to speed so you can dive into this course, which is part of a series I'm teaching everything I know about After Effects (more to come soon!).

Here are some of the skills we will cover in this course:

Keyframe animation

Procedural animation and presets

Simple expressions

Creating templates for titles and lower thirds

Mask animation

Shape animation

Parenting Nulls

Using track mattes

Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files

Adding distortion and noise

Morphing between words

Adding line flourishes

Puppet Tool

Using the Graph Editor

Design principles

Animation principles

Create a write-on effect

3D camera animation

3D text animation

After Effects lights

Extruding text and shapes into 3D

Cinema 4D Lite animation, lighting, and rendering