Fundamentals of Motion Graphics
❖ RGB Color Model
❖ Frame Size
❖ Resolution
❖ Pixel Aspect Ratio
❖ Alpha Channels
❖ Frame Rate
❖ Time Code
❖ Interpreting Footage
Getting to Know the Workflow
❖ How after Effects Works
❖ Overview of panels
❖ Creating a project and importing footage
❖ Creating a composition and arranging lavers
❖ Adding effects and modifying layer properties
❖ Animating the composition
❖ Previewing your work
❖ Optimizing performance in After Effects
❖ Customizing workspaces
❖ Controlling the brightness of the user interface
❖ Finding resources for using After Effects
Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects
and Presets
❖ Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
❖ Importing video clips
❖ Importing stills
❖ Importing a sequence of stills (interpreting)
❖ Importing multilayered Photoshop and illustrator files
❖ Creating a new composition
❖ Applying effects to a layer
❖ Changing parameters globally
❖ Creating key frames
❖ Key frame interpolation: auto, continuous, and Bezier
❖ interpolation
❖ Temporal and spatial Interpolation
❖ Roving in time for spatial properties
❖ Creating and applying an animation preset
❖ Previewing your work
Working With Masks
❖ About masks
❖ Creating a mask with the Pen tool
❖ Editing a mask
❖ Feathering the edges of a mask
❖ Replacing the content of the mask
❖ Mask interpolation
❖ Using masks from Illustrator and Photoshop

❖ Masks for spatial key frames
Animating Text
❖ About text lavers
❖ Creating and formatting point text vs paragraph text
❖ Using a text animation preset
❖ Text on a path
❖ Animating imported Photoshop text
❖ Animating text using a path animation preset
❖ Using a text animators.
❖ Adding properties
❖ Adding a range selector
❖ Using a text animator group
Working with Shape Layers
❖ Adding a shape layer
❖ Creating custom shapes
❖ Creating stars
❖ Default properties of shape layers
❖ Add properties
❖ Creating Groups
❖ Stack your shapes & properties
❖ Using Brainstorm to experiment
Other Effects
❖ Time remapping
❖ Motion sketch
❖ The smoother
❖ The wiggler
❖ Auto orient
❖ Splitting a layer
❖ Adiustment layers
❖ The effects and presets panel
Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
❖ About the Puppet tools
❖ Adding Deform pins
❖ Defining areas of overlap
❖ Stiffening an area
❖ Animating pin positions
❖ Recording animation
Rendering and Output
❖ Creating templates for the Render Queue
❖ Exporting using the Render Queue
❖ Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
Parenting
❖ Understanding Parenting
❖ Simple Pick whipping