After Effects CC for Beginners: Mastering Typography

After Effects CC for Beginners: Mastering Typography, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.75, with 70 lectures, based on 34 reviews, and has 299 subscribers.

You will learn about Create appealing animation with words and letters Master tools and concepts that are fundamental to all animation Add style and spice to their video-editing or animation projects Use professional tricks of the trade Create 3D animation Light and Render their 3D creations This course is ideal for individuals who are Aspiring Motion Graphics Artists who want to finally master After Effects or The total beginner to After Effects who has felt too intimidate in the past to try it or All animation students who want to add a new skillset to their demo reel It is particularly useful for Aspiring Motion Graphics Artists who want to finally master After Effects or The total beginner to After Effects who has felt too intimidate in the past to try it or All animation students who want to add a new skillset to their demo reel.

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Summary

Title: After Effects CC for Beginners: Mastering Typography

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.75

Number of Lectures: 70

Number of Published Lectures: 70

Number of Curriculum Items: 83

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 83

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Create appealing animation with words and letters
Master tools and concepts that are fundamental to all animation
Add style and spice to their video-editing or animation projects
Use professional tricks of the trade
Create 3D animation
Light and Render their 3D creations

Who Should Attend

Aspiring Motion Graphics Artists who want to finally master After Effects
The total beginner to After Effects who has felt too intimidate in the past to try it
All animation students who want to add a new skillset to their demo reel

Target Audiences

Aspiring Motion Graphics Artists who want to finally master After Effects
The total beginner to After Effects who has felt too intimidate in the past to try it
All animation students who want to add a new skillset to their demo reel

You will master After Effects Typography with this course!

This course is divided into 46 lessons that are project-based creating 11different kinds of animated textand motion graphicsprojects. Each project builds on the skills of the previous one so you can start with no knowledge of After Effects and gradually gain a deep understanding of it and acquire a master-level skillset by following along with the progressively more advanced projects.

If you’ve never opened After Effects, begin with the Mastering The Basics first chapter (less than an hour), to get up to speed so you can dive into this typography section of this course.

Who is this for?

Someone with no knowledge of After Effects who isn’t sure where to start. We will begin at the very basics by just opening the program! And we will finish the course created 3D animation!

What will you learn?

Managing After Effects interface
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 hand-drawn write-on effect
3D camera animation
3D text animation
After Effects lights
Extruding text and shapes into 3D
Cinema 4D Lite 3D animation, lighting, and rendering

What do you get when you enroll?

9+ hours of easy-to-follow tutorials
12 Assignments with questions to help you review
Downloadable project files for every step of the course
Premium support to help you as you take the course

Why learn from me?

Lucas Ridley is a professional 3D animator who has worked on Hollywood films such as Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, Avenger’s: Infinity War, Disney’s Aladdin, and on games like The Last Of Us Part 2. He has used After Effects for over 10 years directing animation for brands like LEGO and many others. His students love him, and we’re sure you’re going to enjoy this class.

Lucas breaks down the most complicated steps of animating in After Effects, so that you can easily start animating on your own!

Our 30-day 100% money-back guarantee!

I want you to be happy. If there’s any reason you aren’t enjoying the course, and getting what you expected, I’ll refund your money.

I can’t wait to see you in the course!

Best,
Lucas

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Mastering The Basics

Lecture 1: Download Course Materials 1/2

Lecture 2: Workspace Overview

Lecture 3: Animation

Lecture 4: Animator's Journey

Lecture 5: Parent Animation

Lecture 6: Mask Animation

Lecture 7: Precompositions

Lecture 8: Render – Export the Animation

Lecture 9: Running Out Of Disk Space?

Lecture 10: Change This Preference Setting!

Lecture 11: Color Libraries

Chapter 2: Mastering Typography

Lecture 1: Download Course Materials 2/2

Lecture 2: Quick Text Animation

Lecture 3: Precision with Guides and Grids

Lecture 4: Custom Text Animation (with Animators)

Lecture 5: Lower Third Templates

Lecture 6: Custom Shape Animation – 1

Lecture 7: Custom Shape Animation – 2

Lecture 8: Morph Learn – 1

Lecture 9: Morph Learn – 2

Lecture 10: Morph Learn – 3

Lecture 11: Animate Along A Path

Lecture 12: Dream – Background

Lecture 13: Dream – Write On – 1

Lecture 14: Dream – Write On – 2

Lecture 15: Dream – Write On – 3

Lecture 16: Prepare & Import Illustrator Files Into AE

Lecture 17: Cola – Animate C

Lecture 18: Cola – Bouncy Animation For C

Lecture 19: Cola – Preparing The O Letter

Lecture 20: Cola – Finish The O, L, And A

Lecture 21: Cola – Bouncy Animation For O, L, And A

Lecture 22: Cola – Halftone Background

Lecture 23: 3D Quote – 3D Text Animation

Lecture 24: 3D Quote – 3D Camera

Lecture 25: Monogram Initials – 3D Shape Layers

Lecture 26: Monogram Initials – Outline Flourishes

Lecture 27: 3D Song Lyric – Extruded Text

Lecture 28: 3D Song Lyric – Animate Extruded Text

Lecture 29: 3D Song Lyric – Animate Extruded Text 2

Lecture 30: 3D Song Lyric – Shoe '3D Modeling'

Lecture 31: 3D Song Lyric – Finish

Lecture 32: 3D Song Lyric Bonus – Smooth 3D Camera Animation

Lecture 33: Cinema 4D Lite – Create 3D Text

Lecture 34: Cinema 4D Lite – Animate 3D Text 1

Lecture 35: Cinema 4D Lite – Animate 3D Text 2

Lecture 36: Cinema 4D Lite – Light & Rendering 1

Lecture 37: Cinema 4D Lite – Light & Rendering 2

Lecture 38: Common C4D Lite Port 5030 Error Fix

Chapter 3: Bonus: 3D Character Animation Lip Sync in After Effects

Lecture 1: 3D Character Animation Lip Sync Overview

Lecture 2: Getting Familiar with Cinema 4D Lite

Lecture 3: Model The Head

Lecture 4: Model Ears and Nose

Lecture 5: Understanding the Child Scaling Issue

Lecture 6: Creating The Eyebrow

Lecture 7: Creating The Eye

Lecture 8: Eye Bend Control

Lecture 9: Create The Mouth

Lecture 10: Assemble The Head

Lecture 11: Add To Lips

Lecture 12: Create Body 1

Lecture 13: Create Body 2

Lecture 14: Create Picker for Animation

Lecture 15: Apply Materials

Lecture 16: Import Audio

Lecture 17: Begin Animation

Lecture 18: Body Animation

Lecture 19: Spline Wave

Lecture 20: Face Animation

Lecture 21: Light & Render

Instructors

Lucas Ridley
Award-winning Animator

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