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Adobe After Effects CC (Advanced)

Take your motion graphics and compositions to the next level with the advanced techniques of Adobe After Effects. Master 3D features, the 3D engine, Cinema 4D, 3D camera tracking, warp stabilizing, particle playground, and other simulation effects. Enhance your projects with stroke, scribble, write-on, and paint effects. Join us at Future Media Concepts for this 2-day course!

  • Advanced
  • 18 and older
  • $795
  • Live, interactive online classroom
  • 15 hours over 2 sessions

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  • Mon, Apr 22 at 10:00am - 5:30pm
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Description

What you'll learn in this after effects class:

In this 2-day advanced course designed for videographers, graphic artists, and animators with experience using Adobe After Effects, the standard for motion graphics and compositions in the TV and film industries, you will learn to incorporate text, graphics, and effects into your movies. Upon completion of this course, you will have an excellent understanding of the menu and tools in After Effects, and you'll be able to use the program with a high level of efficiency.

Who Should Attend: Video and animation professionals who need an advanced understanding of Adobe After Effects.

Prerequisites:
  • Practical working knowledge of computers and basic Mac OS X or Windows skills
  • Introduction to Adobe After Effects class or equivalent experience
  • Intermediate Adobe After Effects class or equivalent experience
  • Photoshop Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop or equivalent experience recommended
Course Outline:
Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Lesson 1: Using 3D Features
  • Creating 3D text
  • Cameras, lights, and points of interest
  • Using 3D views
  • Importing a background
  • Adding 3D lights
  • Adding a camera
  • Animating objects in 3D
  • Animating a camera with auto orient
  • Animating a camera with point of interest
  • Animating light
  • Animating aperture
Lesson 2: Using 3D Engine
  • Engines: Classic 3D, Cinema 4D, Ray-traced 3D
  • Extruding text in After Effects
  • Extruding shapes in After Effects
  • Using Illustrator shapes for extruding
  • Geometry options of an image
  • Environmental Layers
Lesson 3: Cinema 4D
  • Working with Cinema 4D Lite
  • Integrating the C4D layer in After Effects
Lesson 4: Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
  • About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
  • Repairing rolling shutter distortions
  • Tracking the footage
  • Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
  • Creating realistic shadows
  • Adding ambient light
  • Creating additional text elements
  • Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
  • Animating the text
  • Adjusting the camera's depth of field
Lesson 5: Warp Stabilizing
  • Stabilization Properties
  • Border Properties
  • Advanced Properties
  • Stabilize
  • Reversible Stabilization
  • Reverse Stabilization
  • Apply Motion to Target
  • Apply Motion to Target over the original
Lesson 6: Particle Playground
  • Using Particles for compound control layers
  • Understanding Particles in general
  • Canon
  • Grid
  • Layer Exploder
  • Particle Exploder
  • Layer Map
  • Gravity
  • Repel
  • Wall
  • Persistent Property Mapper
  • Ephemeral Property Mapper
Lesson 7: Other Simulation Effects
  • Foam vs CC Bubbles
  • Particle Playground vs CC Particle World (Particle System II)
  • Shatter
  • Card Dance
  • Caustic
  • Foam
  • Wave World
Lesson 8: Effects
  • Stroke
  • Scribble
  • Write-on
  • Paint
Lesson 9: Effects
  • Overview of the most commonly used effects in After Effects
    Tips and Tricks from the instructor
  • Q and A
Note:
Online Training is not available in New York.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

Cancellation Policy:

  • If notice is given 16 or more business days before the start of a class, the student may receive a full refund less a $100 administrative fee.
  • If notice is given less than 16 business days no rescheduling or refunds are permitted.
  • Clients who commence a master class may not cancel and are responsible for the entire Master Class fee.
  • Any exam cancellations will be accessed a $50 administrative fee.

All cancellations and registration changes must be received in writing. Please e-mail to [email protected]. Attendee substitutions may be made for any student without penalty or additional cost at any time until the class begins.


Rescheduling Policy:

  • If notice is given 16 or more business days before the start of the class a student may reschedule.
  • A student can reschedule a class up to two (2) times. Additional reschedules will not be allowed.


No Shows:

If a student does not attend a scheduled session, there will be no refund or rescheduling permitted. Payment is forfeited. The school reserves the right to cancel classes with insufficient enrollment or in other circumstances. We will endeavor to give as much advance notice as possible of any change to the schedule. We shall not be responsible for any incidental or consequential loss arising whatsoever.


In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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