Course contents
SECTION: 1
Overview 7:33
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Industry overview 32:37
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My computer is really crappy & I keep getting lost 11:23
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Title overlays, lower thirds & water marks 35:36
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Inspiration 4:15
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Fixing / Cleaning up your video 27:06
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Camera tracking + Time Remapping 29:19
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Animating illustrations 22:28
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Masking & green screen 41:12
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Infographics 20:01
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Cameras 14:24
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Animated static images 21:07
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Swinging text 10:36
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Puppet tool 5:54
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Effects & presets 6:56
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Exporting advanced 11:31
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What now? 3:56
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EXTRA 55:14

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Course info

53 lessons / 6 hours

Overview

Motion graphics are an essential part of video creation and editing. From moving titles across the screen to stabilising your footage to smooth out the bumps or replacing a sign in the background. Ubiquitous, subtly powerful, and for the beginner, a bit mystifying. You need to learn motion graphics. You need a tutorial that will help at every step of the way, without leaving you drowning in details.

If you’ve ever made a video, you’ve probably already discovered that it’s all the little extra infographics, titles and animation that make your project look professional – and you’ve probably already wondered which is the right After Effects tutorial that will let you access the potential.

After Effects is the industrial strength tool for putting the motion in your graphic designs and content. It can also appear to be pretty deep, so getting guidance from a pro that understands how to teach, as much as how to use, After Effects is going to be the key that unlocks your potential.

How about a motion graphics tutorial taught by a working professional who just happens to be great at teaching too? Daniel Scott has been working with animation and motion graphics for over a decade and is the founder of Bring Your Own Laptop - they've been helping people learn design and animation all over the world for just as long.

 



 

Daniel, an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, will take you one manageable step at a time through motion graphics in a series of small practical projects that come together to unlock Adobe After Effects, animation, and infographics. These tutorials give you the complete foundation that you can build on for years to come. Learn the principles and the specifics of producing content, in a way that you'll understand and remember. And stay awake.

Just 3 hours long, and very hands on, you’ll take on specific tools and techniques one at a time so you can easily comprehend each aspect of the tutorial, and see all the parts of creating motion graphics before you get intimidated by the scale of what you can do. From zero to hero, as we like to say.

You get downloadable exercise files that match the course, so no time wasted trying to match project settings or finding material to work with. And you can use the end results in your own projects or portfolio – you can customise them to suit your needs as you grow in understanding.

To learn motion graphics is to unlock the door on the magic that makes your video or web content stand out in the crowd. Daniel is going to provide you with the motion graphics tutorial you’ve been looking for to get more than your foot in the door – you’re going to be able to create beautiful animation and infographics. You’ll be empowered to use After Effects the way it was meant to be used, and to create your own creative content, even during the tutorial itself.

What are the requirements?

  • This course is for absolute beginners

  • You'll need a copy of Adobe After Effects CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • Create beautiful motion graphics

  • Animate compelling infographics

  • Choose the correct video settings.

  • You’ll learn how to exporting your video easily.

  • You’ll be able to create slick type animations.

  • Rendering your video for Youtube & Vimeo.

  • Create titles for interviews.

  • Add music to your motion graphics.

  • Trim & editing video.

  • Add watermarking your video.

  • Fixing shaky footage.

  • Color correct & fix any bad footage.

  • Add a vignette to your video.

  • Learn how to use your skills from Illustrator & Photoshop

  • How to use green screen footage

  • How to mask like a pro.

  • How to animate infographics like bar graphs, line graphs & pie charts.

  • How to use camera to make 3D type.

  • Animating static images using parallax

  • Plus basic character animation.

  • + More…

What is the target audience?

Yes:

  • This course is for people who want to start earning money as a motion graphics designer.

  • This course is for beginners wanting to learn to use After Effects for motion graphics and infographics.

  • No previous After Effects or animation skills are necessary.

No:

  • This course is NOT for people who have a good understanding of After Effects already. This is for new people only.

Course duration 5 hours+ your study.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.

True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

Downloads & Exercise files

Transcript

Help, I'm lost in after effects. That happens quite a bit when I'm teaching and there's pretty much one main culprit. So if you're new to after effects you'll get lost this one way probably loads to get started with. So lets cover it now.

Essentially it is I can see my Bring Your Own Laptop here and people like to double click things and if I double click this, it’s gone where did it go? I've got my animation still there, my timelines still there, if I play it, I can only see these little guys here and this weird little timeline. So I can only see parts of it. You might have done something separately, you might’ve double clicked on the text and you can only see the text. All it is is that you can see here, here is my composition; we've jumped into this isolation mode. We jumped into, we double clicked the layer and we’ve gone into that layer just by itself just to see alone and just by himself. Which is kind of handy, its never handy actually, just a bit of a pain. Especially for my students that are new, it just means we’re back at square one here, stop lets double click the text, ill be on the key frame here if I double click the text, double clicking the text doesn’t work, it just starts editing the text but if you double click the background or some sort of layer that you’ve got or type what it'll do is it'll jump in here.

That’s how you get unlost by just jumping back to that tab. Hopefully that helps, if it doesn’t help, drop me a comment below, say I've got some other thing that I've got lost in and I will help you. Screen shot would be super helpful so I can know what you're looking at but dump it into the forum below or the comments and I will try and dig you out from where you are. Alright, that’s it for getting lost in After Effects.

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