Adobe After Effects Training - Introduction
Learn to create and edit short animations and marketing reels on these onsite Adobe After Effects Training Courses Midlands & UK wide. We visit all major towns & cities such as Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Sheffield, Birmingham. Lincoln, Rugby and surrounding towns and cities.
This is ideal for anyone looking to create motion graphics and animations for web, social media and mobile output. During this course with your trainer you work with the tools & techniques needed to create, design and publish high impact introductions, edit existing footage, create kinetic type and then export for publishing.
For those that prefer training virtually we also run Online After Effects Training Courses.
After Effects Training Course what will I learn?
You will learn how to create animations, impact intro’s, kinetic type and different types of social media reels such as Explainer videos.
On this Introduction to After Effects Course the following features are included. This is just a guideline of the content covered on the After Effects Course. Our full course content can be viewed at the bottom of the screen.
Nothing is cast in stone on the training and we are happy to tailor the course around you.
- Work with & understand the After Effects environment /Tool Box
- Create & Edit Compositions
- Work with Layers including Solids, Nulls, Shape & Text
- Work with & create Kinetic Type
- Create & Edit Keyframes
- Work with Keyframe Assistant /Easy Ease / Easy Ease In /Easy Ease Out
- Apply Motion Effects such as Slow Mo’
- Create Animations /Animation Concepts
- Work with the After Effects Timeline
- Work with Motion Paths
- Work with Masks
- Work with Colour /Lumetri
- Audio Panel
What is Kinetic Type?
Find out more about Kinetic Type and how central it is to After Effects design.
Find out more about After Effects Kinetic Type
What is an Explainer Video?
These are short online marketing videos which are used to describe or explain something – for example a service or a specific product. If you take a look here on Explainer Video it will give you an idea of what they are. Once created they usually appear on a prominent part of a company website such as product pages or the home page.
Who is this course for?
The course is perfect for anyone looking to get a firm grip on motion graphic design for both career progression and personal use. It is currently used by designers, marketing, web designers, social media content creators and virtually anyone creating high impact animations and reels.
This Adobe After Effects Introduction Course will show you the tools, features and techniques used in the software to create high impact animations. You will learn to work with both sound and visual tools to bring a professional and creative look to your animations and movies.
Onsite After Effects Training what are the benefits?
Onsite After Effects Training hosted on your premises offers a number of benefits including:
- Reduced costs to you as Onsite After Effects Courses are cheaper than the more traditional ones
- There is no travelling involved for you or your teams saving travel, hotel and expenses
- The course is focused specifically on your and your team.
- Any of our courses can be tailored to your team.
- From point of booking direct communication with your trainer
- Dates and times to suit you
Please get in touch with us to discuss availability in your area.
After Effects Training Courses Midlands where do we travel?
This After Effects Course is ideal for 121 sessions and closed company courses and we are more than happy to focus on specific content for you to create a fully tailored training event.
Our onsite After Effects Training Courses Midlands are also run UK wide and are hosted onsite at your premises at times and dates to suit you. We cover the whole of the UK including the Midlands, Leicester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Derby, Sheffield, Lincoln, the North, Manchester, Blackpool, Liverpool, Leeds & Hull.
Please contact us for availability in your area.
How long does the course take?
This is a two day course.
Online After Effects Training
This course is also run as a virtual Online After Effects Course with a live instructor. Throughout the training you will have direct live contact with your instructor via video, audio and sharing screens in real time.
All of our digital design courses are now online as well as onsite.
Online After Effects Training offers great flexibility with courses running as virtual sessions both during the day plus evenings and weekends. Virtual online sessions are run on Zoom, Teams, Google etc.
These are live online training courses providing you with direct visual and audio communication with your trainer. Just as in an Onsite Training Course you can view the trainers screen and share your own with the trainer.
If you have any questions about our Online Adobe Training don’t hesitate to get in touch for a chat.
Adobe After Effects Training - Introduction - Overviews
After Effects Introduction
Motion Graphics – the basics
After Effects Interface
After Effects Workspace & Menus
Animating Vector Characters
Using the Puppet Tool
Creating Puppet Mesh
Keyframing Puppet Pins
After Effects Text
Working with Text
Text Formats
Working with Text Presets
Editing Text Presets
Compositions & Assets
Creating a Composition
Composition Settings
Importing Assets
Importing Footage
Explainer Video (Character Animation)
Importing Vector Files (eps /AI Files)
Preparing Vectors for After Effects
Characters & Layers
Puppet Position Tool
Composition v Footage
Loop Out Expression
Animate the Character Body
Animate Facial Expressions
Text Animation
Kinetic Type
Working with Text Layers
Text Animation Presets
Using Text Animators
After Effects & CC
Understanding the role of Illustrator
Understanding the role of Photoshop
Importing Illustrator & Photoshop Files
Pen & Pen Properties
Add /Delete /Convert Pen Tools
Mask Feather Tool
Tapered & Dashed Paths
Animate a Dashed Line
Create Custom Mask with Pen
Tapered Strokes
Motion Tracking
Understand Motion Tracking
Stabilising Motion
Apply Tracking Data to another layer
After Effects & Layers
What are layers?
Adding & Editing Keyframes to Layers
Working with Motion Paths
Adjusting Layers
Working with Audio
Adding Audio
Audio Presets & Effects
Edit Audio
Removing Background Noise
Rotoscoping in After Effects
Separate Foreground from Background
Animating Rotoscope Mask
Using the Roto Brush Tool
After Effects Layers
Working with a Solid Layer
Working with a Shape Layer
Working with Adjustment Layers
Working with Photoshop Layers
After Effects Masks
Add Shape Layer
Vector Shapes in After Effects
Creating a Mask
Custom shape tools
Working with the Pen Tool
Handles and bezier curves
Mask properties
After Effects Edits in Comps
Adding Keyframes to Layers
Layer Transformations
Layer fx Effects
After Effects Timeline
Adding Clips to Timeline
Positioning Clips
Time Ruler & Current Time
The Graph Editor (Value Graph & Speed Graph)
