Introduction to Adobe After Effects is ideal for beginning users who want to learn key After Effects concepts and techniques. More experienced users who already have some experience with After Effects can use this course to learn some of After Effects' more advanced features and newest tools.
Introduction to Adobe After Effects is ideal for beginning users who want to learn key After Effects concepts and techniques. More experienced users who already have some experience with After Effects can use this course to learn some of After Effects' more advanced features and newest tools. Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, this course walks users through the creation of a specific project, with successive lessons building on the user's growing knowledge of the program.
What you will learn
- 1 Getting to know the workflow
- 2 Creating a basic animation using effects and presets
- 3 Animating text
- 4 Working with shape layers
- 5 Animating a multimedia presentation
- 6 Animating layers
- 7 Working with masks
- 8 Distorting objects with the puppet tools
- 9 Rotoscoping
- 10 Performing color correction
- 11 Building 3d objects
- 12 Using 3d features
- 13 Advanced editing techniques
- 14 Rendering and outputting
Prerequisites
You should have a working knowledge of the Macintosh and its operating system. Make sure that you know how to use the mouse and standard menus and commands, and also how to open, save, and close files. If you need to review these techniques, see the documentation included with your Mac® OS X computer.
For more information on what this course offers, please browse the Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book outline.
Certification
If you wish to become certified in Adobe After Effects CS5, details will be provided in class. Certification for Adobe products is provided by Person Vue.
Questions:
If you have any questions or want more information regarding the Intro to After Effects CS5 course, please email Kert Gartner, our Certification Co-ordinator at
kert@newmediamanitoba.com.
About the Instructor
About Kert
With a passion for Photography, Animation, and Visual Effects, Kert has accumulated over 12 years of experience in the visual effects, motion graphics and print industry. He spent 7 years working on some of Hollywood’s largest films, including A-Team, Dragonball: Evolution, Superman Returns, Across the Universe, X-men III, and Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.
Kert took an interest in photography around 1999 with the discovery of his grandfather's Canon AE-1. Kert has devoted himself to exploring new and unique photography techniques, including the use of Infrared film and digital compositing. Most of Kert’s shots incorporate some sort of digital manipulation, using tools like Photoshop and Eyeon Fusion in interesting and unique ways to create a compelling final shot.
You can follow Kert on his personal website, or on his blog, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, LinkedIn, Youtube, and Flickr. If you want to learn from Kert, he hosts a tutorial site called VFX Haiku where divulges the tricks of his trade.
Kert Gartner