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LinkedIn Learning

Creating After Effects Templates

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to automate your motion graphics workflow—and package your designs for distribution—by building projects procedurally through After Effects templates.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The importance of procedural graphics
  • What you should know
1. After Effects Template Essentials
  • What is a .mogrt file?
  • Previsualizing a template
  • Organize your AE project
  • Work in the Essential Graphics panel
  • Reveal and add supported parameters
  • Linking parameters
  • Expressions you need to know for templates
  • Keep animations safe with protected regions
  • Export and test motion graphic templates
  • Notes for selling your template
2. Create an Animated Muti-Title Template
  • Choose a color theme with Adobe Color
  • Select a typeface from Adobe Fonts
  • Create a title animation
  • Troubleshoot and link source text layers
  • Create the final animation
  • Choose which parameters to send
  • Create a drop-down menu
  • CSV files and templates
  • Export the motion graphics template
  • Submit templates to Adobe Stock
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Nick Harauz

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