Learn tricks that make working in After Effects easier and more fun. Explore free scripts you can install for a faster workflow and learn about animation, design theory, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Course intro: Up your animation game, quick and simple
- Using this course
- Installing and using scripts in after effects
- Animation Composer: Plugin
- Animation Composer: Extra scripts
- Duik for better keyframing
- Scale and rotate motion paths script
- First Vertex toolkit script
- Better layer & precomp organization withtrue comp duplicator & un-precompose scripts
- The laws of physics and rules of animation
- Easing motion with animation patterns script
- Creating follow-through, overlap, and secondary action with Dulk
- Animating squash and stretch
- Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle
- Animating fast with Motion Sketch and Smoother
- Linking animated properties with expression pickwhip
- A better scale zoom with exponential scale
- Creating camera shake
- Fixing an anchor point
- Quick timing adjustments with time-remap & duik morpher
- Working around expressions in a project
- Quick stop motion style with Tickler
- Multi-layer animated presets with layer library
- Using the Puppet tool outside of puppets
- Next steps
Taught by
Owen Lowery