What you'll learn
Learn motion graphics and visual effects in this Adobe After Effects Course for Beginners. Adobe After Effects is one of five Adobe Creative Cloud short courses we currently offer in Sydney.
Learning how to create animations has become an essential tool for developing digital content. Adobe After Effects allows you to create motion graphics and visual effects for film, TV, video, and the web. Whether you are a graphic designer, web designer, video editor, visual artist, or educator, this Adobe After Effects course is designed to help you get started with this Motion Graphics and Compositing program and add a valuable skill to your creative toolkit.
This Adobe After Effects Course will give you the means to create cinematic film titles, introductions and transitions, animate logos and text, and create stunning visual effects.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this online Adobe After Effects course, you should be able to:
- Adequately use keyframes and layers to produce moving text and/or logos
- Understand composition workflow in the After Effects interface
- Understand the use of masks and how they apply to motion graphics
- Be able to plan and execute basic special effects tasks
Course content
What will be covered in this online Adobe After Effects course?
This is a hands-on course with exercises that show and allow you to practice:
- Project and composition creation
- Creating layers and filling with content
- Applying keyframe animation to the standard Layer group of properties
- Creating classic shapes and modifying these on the fly
- Locating and applying visual effects
- Creating, formatting and editing text
- Understanding interpolation types
- First steps in masking with layer masks
- Importing stills/video footage – transform techniques
- Making one layer follow another with parenting
- Exporting compositions for preview or presentation.
This is a crash training course in Adobe After Effects so the facilitator will aim to fit in as much content as possible, however, they may not cover all of the above. If you have a specific aspect of the program you are interested in learning about, please let the tutor know.
Intended audience
Who is this Adobe After Effects course for?
Graphic designers, filmmakers, video editors, web designers, and visual artists may benefit the most from this After Effects course as well as anyone with an interest in motion graphics and digital animation.
Basic competency with computers is assumed before enrolling, and proficiency in other Adobe software is helpful but not essential for successful completion of this course.
Course venue
This class will be offered live online via Zoom.
Course materials
To participate in this class students will need access to a computer or laptop with internet access and will need to install the Adobe After Effects software (one-month free trial available).
Course testimonials
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Liliana said: Gregory was an excellent tutor with great knowledge all around. I really enjoyed learning the basics of AAE. He was very helpful and the program was very enjoyable. The lab was filled with MAC's which are always awesome to work on. I had an amazing experience
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Erisana said: I learned a lot! The teacher provided step-by-step notes, answered our questions, offered tips and supported us individually when necessary. He was always very attentious and kind.
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Gianluca said: Gregory is such an awesome fellow (very enthusiastic & knowledgeable) & there's on site car parking. For these reasons, I would recommend Sydney community college.
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Usuff said: The tutor is very knowledgeable. Instructions were clear and concise. Instructor was patient in explaining difficult concepts when students needed help to understand them.
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David said: Course was very well set out for a newcomer to AAE. Greg was not only very knowledgeable on the subject material but also able to pass that knowledge onto people who had little experience with the software, something I've found that many other instructors aren't able to do effectively.
Course tutors
Greg Foulds
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