After Effects CC: Motion Graphics & Animation Principles

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome to Motion Graphics and Animation Principle

Lecture 1: The Motion Graphics, Animation Principles and Projects Covered in the course

Lecture 2: Download your Exercise files & Projects

Lecture 3: Setting up After Effects for Motion Graphics

Chapter 2: 1st Project – Animating a scene with Overshoots and Bounces

Lecture 1: Let's Animate: 1st Project – Bounce & overshoot

Lecture 2: How to import Graphics Into After Effects

Lecture 3: How to animate scenes in After Effects

Lecture 4: How to add easing to animation in After Effects

Lecture 5: Animation Principle: What is Overshoot?

Lecture 6: How to add a Quick & Easy Overshoot

Lecture 7: Animation Principle: What is Bouncing?

Lecture 8: Add Quick & Easy Bounce to your animation

Lecture 9: Make your animation more appealing by sequencing layers

Lecture 10: Sharpening the Vector Graphics

Lecture 11: Much nicer with Motion Blur

Lecture 12: Tips & Tricks: Useful Shortcuts

Lecture 13: Tips & Tricks: Anchor Point to change the animation

Lecture 14: Your assignment – Select and Animate

Chapter 3: Essentials – How to export your Videos to use on Social Medias

Lecture 1: Best & recommended Method to create Videos

Lecture 2: The other method – Render Queue

Lecture 3: Your Assignment: Show your achievement

Chapter 4: Essentials – How to organize Graphics in Illustrator for AE Import

Lecture 1: How to set up Illustrator files to Import to AE – Isometric Designs

Lecture 2: Adobe CC Library is another powerful tool

Lecture 3: What to do when the footage goes missing

Chapter 5: 2nd Project – The Quick & Easy way to create Animation

Lecture 1: 2nd Project: Let's Animate Awesome Quick & Easy

Lecture 2: Getting some help

Lecture 3: Important Tip: Animation Duration

Lecture 4: The Quick and Easy way to animate

Lecture 5: Animating a whole scene in a minute

Lecture 6: Creating waves with water layers

Lecture 7: Staggering Graphics Groups

Lecture 8: Taking them Out!

Lecture 9: How to Create Animation Groups

Lecture 10: How to create random motion

Lecture 11: How to create distortion motion

Chapter 6: 3rd Project – How to add Anticipation with Squash and Stretch

Lecture 1: How to add Simple Anticipation

Lecture 2: Anticipation with Simple Squash & Stretch

Lecture 3: Anticipation Down & Up with Squash & Stretch

Lecture 4: A more sophisticated squash and Stretch

Lecture 5: The inverse Animation with Squash & Stretch

Chapter 7: 4th Project – Game Scene Animation

Lecture 1: 4th Project – Game Scene Animation

Lecture 2: The Motion Path way

Lecture 3: Create the Animation

Lecture 4: Adding Squash & Stretch

Lecture 5: Adding Sound Effects

Lecture 6: Adding Visual & Landing Sound Effects

Lecture 7: Playing the Animation Duration – Awesome Sound Effects changes

Lecture 8: Your Final Animation Download

Chapter 8: 5th Project – The Firing Cannon Animation

Lecture 1: 5th Project – Distortion and much more

Lecture 2: The awesome effect to create Squash & Stretch and distortion

Lecture 3: First Action Animation

Lecture 4: Managing Speeds and Adding Action

Lecture 5: Telling a story with keyframes

Lecture 6: SFX brings life to your animation

Lecture 7: Your Final Cannon project download

Chapter 9: 6th Project – Follow Through and Overlapping Action

Lecture 1: 6th Project – Follow Through and Overlapping Action

Lecture 2: The follow through animation stages

Lecture 3: How to create an animation group

Lecture 4: How to create Lag for the main body

Lecture 5: How to create Lag for other body parts

Lecture 6: Completing the Lag animation

Lecture 7: How to remove the stiffness and make them wave

Lecture 8: How to create the overlapping action

Lecture 9: Overlapping action the "elastic" way

Chapter 10: 7th Project – Environment Explained animation

Lecture 1: 7th Project – from keyframes to effects and links

Lecture 2: Setting up: Background, Transparency and Centering

Lecture 3: Animate with overshoot and stagger

Lecture 4: How to create an animated group

Lecture 5: Add organic perfectly centered circles

Lecture 6: Completing the Animation.

Lecture 7: Advanced: Controlling with Angle expressions

Chapter 11: How to forge ahead

Lecture 1: The way forward: Go wild and animate – Create fun and amusing animations

Chapter 12: Bonus

Lecture 1: Bonus: Your Next Step.