AFTER EFFECTS BOOTCAMP
Go from beginner to advanced user in 4 days with
After Effects Bootcamp®
This 4 day training program brings together our beginners and advanced courses, providing you with a comprehensive course covering all the main areas of After Effects.
You will start out by learning about preparing your project through processes like storyboarding and scripting. You will then learn how to create content in After Effects, apply animations and work with keyframes, easing and more. As the course progresses you will learn to apply track mattes, work with masks, use precomps, work with null objects, create adjustment layers, use animation paths and lots more.
By the end of the After Effects Bootcamp you will have all the skills needed to use even the most complex features of After Effects and with a little practice you will be producing stunning visual graphics and motion effects.
Experienced Instructors
Over 20 years experience
Post Course Support
Hours of videos & more
Closed Courses
Live Online or inhouse
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We currently offer this class as a closed course. Please contact us to discuss the options and prices.Stage One of the After Effects Bootcamp introduces you to the After Effects interface and gets you up and running with the basic tools found in Adobe After Effects. Topics covered include:
Preparing your project
- Terminology - Resolution, Frames per second and more
- Storyboarding
- What assets are needed
- What other skills are needed
After Effects user interface and animation
- What is a project file and what is in it?
- Workspaces
- Tools and Panels
- Importing Media into a Project
- Creating a Composition
The Text Tool
- Using the text tool
- Formatting text
- Editing text
- Paragraph and Character panels
- Create shapes from text
Creating shapes
- Rectangle, Elipse, Polygon, Star
- The pen tool
- Editing shapes
The Timeline
- Overview of the timeline
- Switches and modes
- Shy layers
- Soloing
- Reordering
- Labels and Markers
Transform Options
- Opacity
- Rotation
- Scale
- Position
- Anchor Point
Basic Animation
- What is keyframing
- Applying keyframes
- Adjusting keyframes
- Duplicating keyframes
- Easing
Intermediate Animation
- Motion sketch
- Roving keyframes
- Wiggler
- Motion Blur
- Centering / Moving the anchor point
Masking v Track Mattes
- Creating Masks
- Creating Track Mattes
- Keyframing masks
- Keyframing track mattes
- Using with Effects
Adjusting time
- Time reverse
- Slowing down
- Speeding up
Effects
- Colour Correction
- Basic Keying
- Simulating rainfall / snowfall
- Presets
- Modifying Effects using the Effects Control Panel
- Animating Effects
- Using Adjustment Layers
Rendering and Output
- Dependancies
- Add to Render Queue
- Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue
Stage two of the Bootcamp covers more Advanced aspects of After Effects. The standard topics we cover are listed below.
Stage 2 - After Effects Advanced
Animating text layers
- Animating text along a path
- Text Animators
- Animating individual characters
- Range selectors
- Advanced Range Selector features
Nesting and Dependancies
- Precomps
- Editing precomps
- Locking panels
- Using Null objects
Animation and Keyframes
- Different types of Keyframe
- Velocity
- Keyframe shortcuts
- Keyframe graph editor
- Proportional Adjustment
- Snapping to keyframes
- Keyframe Assistants
- Easy Ease
- Time revers Keyframes
- Animation and behaviour presets
- Keyframe Interpolation
Masks and Shapes
- Creating masks
- Importing masks from Illustrator
- Animating masks
- Shape layers
- Shape layer modifiers
- Repeater
Path Animation
- Animating along a vector path
- Auto orient to the path
- Creating a path from an nomination path
- Stroke a path
- Scribble in a path
- Other path effects
Effects
- Radio Waves
- Particle Effects
- Compound effects
Keying
- Using Keylight
- Using the Roto Brush
- Simple Wire Removal
Time and Tracking
- Time re-mapping
- Time warp
- Motion Tracking
- Tracking faces
- Perspective Corner pinning
- 3D Camera Tracking
Working with 3D
- Understanding 3D
- 3D Layers
- The 3D Axis
- Cameras
- Lights
- The Unified Camera tool
- Integration with Cinema 4D
Using Photoshop and Illustrator
- Working with Photoshop
- Working with Illustrator
Project Management
- Collect Files
- Consolidate Footage
- Remove Unused Footage
- Reducing your project
Who should attend this course
This After Effects course is suitable for those who want to learn to use After Effects but have no previous experience. If you already have experience using Adobe After Effects then you might want to consider our Advanced After Effects Training Course instead.
Comments from delegates that attended Illustrator courses at Highlander
"Really helpful and clear, he always goes through things if you haven't got it straight away and is very patient"
Designer, Marks and Spencer
"The centre was comfortable to work in, while the instructor was very clear and answered all our questions"
Creative Assistant, The Walt Disney Company
"Fantastic tutor, patient and fun. I've really enjoyed my course and I feel much more equipped to start working with illustrator. I think the size of the class was perfect and the pace of the course was also great."
Photographer and Publicity Assistant, Reliance Precision
"Very good, answered all my questions and was flexible enough to deviate from agenda to show me techniques or queries I had during the sessions."
Design Team Manager, Girl Guiding UK
"I enjoyed the fact that it is mostly practical and you're able to get hands on with the software. The instructor is very friendly and approachable which makes it easier to ask for help"
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