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After Effects Guru: Plugins You Should Know

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Overview

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Discover options in After Effects and third-party plugins you can use to improve your workflow and enhance your project.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Major Plugin Packages
  • Before you buy: Understanding what's already in After Effects
  • Working with BCC 10: Boris Continuum Complete
  • Exploring BCC transitions
  • Integrating mocha tracking in BCC 10
  • Red Giant Effects Suite
  • Red Giant Universe
  • Red Giant Trapcode Suite
  • GenArts Sapphire
  • GenArts Sapphire S_Effect and S_Transition
2. Options for Particle Simulations
  • A look at After Effects built-in particle effects
  • Exploring Trapcode Particular
  • Exploring Trapcode Form
  • BCC 10 particles
  • An overview of Plexus 2
  • Pastiche
  • Nodes 2
3. Beauty Enhancement
  • Enhancing beauty with After Effects built-in effects
  • Digital Anarchy Beauty Box
  • BCC 10 Beauty
  • Sapphire S_Beauty
4. Options for 3D
  • A look at options for built-in 3D and CINEMA 4D Lite
  • Working with Element 3D, part 1
  • Working with Element 3D, part 2
  • A look at FreeForm Pro
  • ShapeShifter AE
  • BCC Title Studio
  • Zaxwerks Invigorator PRO
5. Simplifying Complex Keyframes, Expressions, and Physical Simulations
  • Working with complex keyframe animations
  • Working with expressions
  • Ease and Wizz
  • iExpressions
  • Motion 2
  • Newton 2
  • Animation Composer
  • TypeMonkey and LayerMonkey
6. Lens Flares
  • After Effects built-in lens flare
  • BCC Lens Flares
  • Sapphire S_Lensflares
  • Optical Flares
  • mFlare
  • Knoll Light Factory
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Nick Harauz

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