Course Information

Adobe After Effects enables you to add special effects and animation to graphics-related projects. After Effects can help you animate, alter, and composite media through the use of various tools and special plugins. After Effects is the industry-standard software for motion-graphics pros, web designers and visual effect artists for video editing. Students will learn how to use After Effects without having any prior knowledge of the program. Both beginners and intermediate users will benefit from this course.

Our instructor, Mark Sullivan, will walk you through the very basics of the program and show you how to navigate the software. After that, he will continue on to more advanced features such as: Getting to know the workflow Creating a basic animation using effects and presets Animating text Working with shape layers Animating a multimedia presentation Animating layers Working with masks Distorting objects with the puppet tool Using the roto brush tool Performing color correction Creating motion graphics templates