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LinkedIn Learning

Your First After Effects Project

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Add Adobe After Effects to your creative skill set. Learn how to build your first motion graphics project—an animated postcard—using Photoshop and After Effects.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Animating a static design
1. Import and Organize
  • Introduction to After Effects
  • Reviewing the Photoshop design
  • Creating a composition from footage
  • Import, organize, and trim the project
2. Match the Design
  • Matching colors
  • Converting to live text
3. Animation
  • Changing kerning and animating a texture
  • Revealing a layer using a transition
  • Animating text with presets
  • Animating layers using parenting
4. Compositing
  • Replacing clips
  • Creating a mockup, part 1
  • Creating a mockup, part 2
5. Rendering
  • Rendering a master file
  • Exporting to the web
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Eran Stern

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