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Skillshare

Turn a 2d photo into a 3d animation with After Effects!

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Overview

This course will help you learn Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects through an interesting and challenging visual project: the process of creating a 3D looking video scene from a still photograph!

The course is structured around the workflow of a professional After Effects user.

  1. You will learn the basics of Photoshop and get familiar with the tools you need for this project
  2. You will learn all the important parts of Adobe After effects ie.: import, timeline, effects, special layers etc.
  3. Than You will learn the animation process step-by-step from a 2D photograph to the finished 3D composition with added slow motion effect
  4. You will learn to create a new project from multiple projects

At the end of the course you will understand the workflow of creating 3D effect not only from photos, but logos, icons or info graphics! You can use your knowledge to create stunning animatied scenes from wedding photos, or pimp up your family album or your YouTube videos!

Syllabus

  • Turn a 2D photo into a 3D animation with After Effects
  • About the course's structure
  • Why Photoshop is useful for this course?
  • The basics of Photoshop - interface
  • Importing files and important tools
  • Creating the folder system
  • Preparing the PSD file for After Effects
  • Settings and interface of After Effects
  • Importing files to After Effects
  • Timeline and keyframes
  • The effect panel and the effect control panel
  • Creating solid layers, text layers, adjustment layers and null objects
  • 3D in After Effects
  • Precomposing
  • Importing the prepared image and setting up the 3D space
  • Set up the camera
  • Exporting the project to a video file
  • About the puppet tool
  • Animating with the puppet pin tool
  • Importing After Effect projects to each other
  • Thank you! Good bye and good luck!

Taught by

Zoltan Siket

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