Get short tips to become a better After Effects artist. Learn how to reset tools, control animations, create effects, control layers, troubleshoot issues, and much more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Random shapes animation
- Fix Photoshop layers
- Bouncy animation
- Cut out stop-motion animation
- Dangerous curves
- Reveal layers and melt colors
- Track matte with Colorama
- Match color and motion blur
- Useful utility effects
- Morph type weights
- Animated decorative shapes
- Create jumpy characters
- Shatter and explode
- Changing the default Cinema 4D file
- Parenting Cinema 4D files
- Extracting Cinema 4D passes
- Extracting Cinema 4D layers
- Environment options
- Easy seamless textures
- Creating fan cards animation
- Folding elements
- Choosing the best color to key
- Render Water
- Liquid Text
- Stabilizing color
- Displacement recipe
- Alternative options, part 1
- Alternative options, part 2
- Reset tools
- Poster time and thumbnails
- Hidden things
- Timeline extras
- Uprez video
- Good parenting
- Light control
- Object orientation
- Render to GIF
- Silky smooth roller titles
- Upgrade legacy blurs
- Animating with transitions
- Compositing smoke and water
- Fade audio
- Audio breakdown
- Vignette options
- Easy, fast pie chart
- Scrub colors
- Accelerated effects
- Faking rack focus
- Export a Premiere Pro project
- Open multiple After Effects instances
- Easter eggs
- Content-Aware Fill
- Removing the wobbling effect
- Ghost smearing effect
- Applying tracking to an effect point
- Reverse stabilization
- Puppet tool tricks
- Animating an emoji
- Using masks to control effects
- Refine edge matte
- Creating a watermark template
- Creating a social animation template
- Baking Cinema 4D keyframes
- Saving Photoshop layers
- Importing Illustrator artwork through XD
- Reposition the anchor point
- White balance workflow
- Chromatic aberration effect
- Maintain hair details
- Compositing with multichannel EXR
- Isometric camera
- Camera control
- Infinite zoom
- The Dependencies menu
- Water effects, part 1
- Water effects, part 2
- Water effects, part 3
- Effect controls
- Drop-down menu control
- Auto-trace video
- Fast bokeh
- Reset the camera tracker
- Contact shadows
- Light transmission
- 3D channel effects
- Depth using duplicates
- Per-character 3D text
- Keyframes 101
- Control paths
- Animating paint strokes
- Stretch lights
- Revealing using offset paths
- Concentric shape repeaters
- Tapered shape strokes
- Unmult
- Creating a precise matte with Auto-trace
- Auto resize comp
- Planar tracking
- Attaching graffiti to a building
- Compositing sky and birds
- Paint bucket matte
- Exporting alpha channel
- Firey, swirly text
- Dynamic text templates
- Paragraph text settings
- Clone Stamp tool
- The importance of mockups
- Match curvature surface distortion
- Merge camera
- Viewport render
- Quick multi-plane
- Advanced camera options
- Particles controller
- Eyedropper tips
- Changing stroke caps and weight
- Controlling word spacing
- Mask modes
- Rotobrush 2.0
- 3D design workspace
- 3D shortcuts
- 3D models from dimension
- Colorful torus
- Essential properties
- Logo repeater
- Previewing After Effects project
- Better displacement
- Improved composition toolbar
- Media replacement in MOGRTs
- Rule of thirds grid
- Flat look extrusion
- Simple environment layer
- Easy inertia
- Match composition duration
- Un-precomps
- Crop precomps
- InDesign and After Effects workflow
- Sine line
- More accurate content-aware fill
- Convert text to sand
- Controlling text styling with expressions
- Using variable fonts
- Working with SVG fonts
- Libraries integration
- Using behaviours
- Cylinder lines logo
- Fixing color over time
- Rendering to .mp4
- Removing noise
- Wipe with border
- Particle text dots
- LED screen effect
- Motion trails
- Search tips
- Color accuracy
- Speculative preview
- Composition profiler
- Multi-frame rendering
- Render faster
- Out of frame cutout
- White balance with Divide
- Move between comps
- Correctly transform shapes
- True layer duplicator
- Fractal noise perspective offset
- Storm particles transition
- Quick wireframe
- Magic switcher
- Reference text
- Faster previews
- Inner glow
- Effects motion path
- Channel operations
- Light leaks
- Dust specks
- Animated scribble text
- Multicam edit
- Halftone effect
- Reduce project and archive
- The advanced comp settings
- 3D binning
- Time slicing
- Quick chromatic aberration
- Easy parallax
- Anchor point mover
- Stagger layers
- Fake depth and light
- Smooth text animation
- Animated variable stroke
- Export gradient maps from Photoshop
- Shapes madness
- Autofill
- Extended viewport
- Selectable track matte
- Keyframe color labels
- Native H.264 encoding
- New comp presets
- New animation presets
- Social template
- Easy text change
- Bind gradient to text
- 2D to 3D projection mapping
- Negative light
- Render bounding boxes
- Preferences recommendations
Taught by
Eran Stern
