Adobe After Effects CC - Motion Graphics Design & VFX

After completing this course you'll know what to do if you loose any of your videos or files. We'll relink them!

After this video you'll know the difference between a Project and a Composition in Adobe After Affects.

After this video you'll know exactly what setting you need to create your videos in.

After completing this video you'll be able to change the length of your motion graphic animation.

After completing this video you will be able to automatically choose the correct size and length of your After Effects composition.

After completing this video you'll know how to create your first type animation motion graphic.

After completing this video you'll learn the first of the secret sauces that make up slick looking motion graphics.

After completing this video you'll learn the second of the motion graphic secrets to beautiful animated typography.

After completing this video you'll know how to easily export your first video ready for Youtube, Vimeo or your own website.

After completing this video you'll know what to do if you find your laptop is running a little slow. All the tricks in the book to make your animation preview super fast.

After completing this video you'll know how to make loads of room for your motion graphics files on your hard drive.

After completing this video you'll know what to do if you get lost inside After Effects. A great trick for newbies.

After completing this video you'll know how to create title that appear above people when they are talking in interviews.

After completing this video you'll know how to add a watermark to your video. The watermark is the small transparent logo that appears in the corner of the video (like the Udemy logo.

After completing this video you'll know the best keep secret in motion graphics - Anticipation. This technique will turn your boring infographics into stunning animation.

After completing this video you'll know how to add upbeat background music to your motion graphics projects.

After completing this video you'll know the best places to go to get inspired for your first work.

After completing this video you'll know how to trim and edit your video into smaller, more dynamic footage.

After completing this video you'll know how to take ugly video and make it look amazing.

After completing this video you'll know how to add a vignette. A vignette is the dark cloudy fog near the edges of video. They make motion graphics feel more awesome.

After completing this video you'll know what to do when you have jumpy footage. We'll take hand held mobile phone footage and make it look very professional.

After completing this video you'll know how to add text to your footage that feels like it's actually in the shot. Very cool.

After completing this video you'll learn how to create slow motion like the 'bullet time' using in the movie 'The Matrix'.

After completing this video you'll know how to get type animations to follow your subjects around in the screen.

After completing this video you'll know how to use your skills in Illustrator (if you have any). You'll create your graphics in Illustrator and bring them into After Effects to be animated correctly.

After completing this video you'll learn how to loop your animations.

After completing this video you'll know how to group your animations together. Making it easy to move them around.

After completing this video you'll learn how to get your motion graphics to follow any line your create. In this video we'll animate a hip little fish and get him to move around the video.

After completing this video you'll know how to cut people out from a Green Screen.

After completing this video you'll learn how to create a basic mask in After Effects.

After completing this video you'll learn how to make a cooler mask with different layers animating separately with cool motion graphic effects.

After completing this video you'll know how to mask more completed things like moving people in a video.

After completing this video you'll learn how to mask objects in your video and put type animation between them.

After completing this video you'll learn how to make an animated infographic line chart.

After completing this video you'll learn how to make an animated infographic pie chart. We'll have the bars expanding and slices popping out for cool motion graphic effect.

After completing this video you'll learn how to create a camera to follow objects around in your motion graphic animations.

After completing this video you'll know how to take your boring screen shot video into moving, slick motion graphics.

After completing this video you'll know how to cut up still photographs from Photoshop and make them feel like they are moving, live footage. The term is parallax and it is beautiful.

After completing this video you'll learn how to add moving lights to your static images to make them feel like they are totally motion/live footage.

After completing this video you'll know how to fake dust particles in the air. You can use the same effect for snow & rain.

After completing this video you'll know how to create typography that swings down in 3d space. You'll make text that swings and that is all connected together.

After completing this video you'll know how to animate a cartoon character. Fun.

After completing this video you'll know how to create a spinning earth globe in space. Taking full advantage of the built in effects, showing off how to make motion graphic amazingness with only a few clicks.

After completing this video you'll know how to make a version of your video that is super small and easy to email to customers.

After completing this video you'll know how to collect all the files you've been working on into one place. This trick makes everything so very tidy.

This is the final video and we'll talk about what you can do next to ensure you have an amazing time as a motion graphic designer.