SkillShare - Animating With Ease in After Effects

Duration: 1h 19m | Video: yuv420p, 1280x720, 30 fps | Audio: aac, 22050 Hz, mono | 2.70 GB

Genre: eLearning

You've learned the basics. Keyframes are in your toolbox. Now it's time to take the next step as an animator and unleash the power of After Effects' graph editor!

SkillShare - Animating an illustrated object: bringing life to the static

English | Video: AVC (.MP4) 960x512 30fps | Audio: AAC 44.1KHz 2ch | 805 MB
Genre: eLearning | Project files Included

Explore how illustrator and animator Richard Bolland brings motion, weight, and energy into every project he touches. In this 53-minute class, you’ll learn his step-by-step process for creating motion ready objects and bring them to life — the process behind how Studio Bolland creates all their work—as well as a range of insider insights on creativity, tips and tricks, and the power of motion.

Digital Tutors - Compositing a Machine Gun Turret in CINEMA 4D and After Effects

1h 55m | MP4 | AVC 1280x720 15 fps | AAC 32KHz 2ch | 3.32GB

Genre: eLearning | Project Files Included

In this CINEMA 4D and After Effects tutorial we'll pick up where we left on the Modeling a Machine Gun Turret course.

We'll begin by organizing our model’s hierarchy to begin animating it into an action scene. Once we finalize our motion, we'll then continue to reference the environment in which our turret will live. Finally, we'll end this CINEMA 4D and After Effects training by adding 3D data nulls to help ensure we get proper 3D alignment with our lighting set up and post FX, layers, and atmosphere.

 

Digital Tutors - Creating a Narrative Previs Concept in Maya and After Effects

1h 44m | Audio: aac, 32KHz, mono | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 15.00 fps | B

Genre: eLearning | Project Files Included

In this Maya and After Effects tutorial we'll go over creating a narrative concept through animation and camera composition.

Learn how to create better transitions by combining Premiere Pro's built-in transitions with filters and other effects, and then find out how to customize and save your results. In this installment of Premiere Pro Guru, Rich Harrington covers best practices for applying, refining, stacking, and saving transitions to produce more-creative, more-professional projects. This course focuses on how to master the existing Adobe Premiere Pro transitions as well as how to use top third-party solutions. Additionally, in-depth coverage is given to creating custom transitions such as blurs, flash frames, fades, gradient wipes, and more.

After Effects Tips and Techniques: Shapes, Text, Masks, and Path Effects   

3h 0m Appropriate for all Feb 03, 2025    

Get the most out of your motion graphics workflow with After Effects Tips and Techniques, the series that introduces new shortcuts, hidden gems, and overlooked effects to experienced After Effects artists. In this course you'll learn how to make the most out of shapes, masks, text, and path effects: some of the most flexible and design-friendly elements of the software. Eran Stern shows how to scale these elements, add effects to path outlines, extrude artwork in 3D space, and incorporate numbers and expressions in your effects.

Digital-Tutors - Creating an Illustrated Title Sequence in Photoshop and After Effects

1h 25m | AVC 1280x720 15 fps | AAC 96 Kbps 48.0 KHz | 1.3GB

Genre: eLearning | Project Files Included

In this series of Photoshop and After Effects tutorial, we'll be creating an illustrated title sequence in Photoshop and After Effects. We'll start in Photoshop by pulling in our clip and deciding which frame will work best to begin our illustration process.

Lynda - After Effects Guru: Advanced Photoshop Techniques

1.81GB | Duration: 2h 13m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Level: Advanced | Language: English

Integrate Photoshop into your everyday video and animation workflows to save time, correct common video issues, and generate custom textures. After Effects guru Ian Robinson starts with the essentials: retouching, correcting color, and fixing distortion with Photoshop.

 

After Effects Tips and Techniques: Rendering and Exporting  

Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15&30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch 

(2h 11m Intermediate Jan 08, 2025)

Get the most out of After Effects, with Eran Stern's After Effects Tips and Techniques. This installment is dedicated to rendering: increasing the quality and speed of your final export, as well as the RAM previews and prerenders you generate along the way. Eran shows how to optimize your system settings, addresses issues like flickering and upscaling, and introduces production-ready workflows that will increase your productivity and speed up interactions with complex projects.

SkillShare - The Ultimate Guide to Shape Layers in After Effects

English | .FLV | h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 24.00 fps | aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16 | 1.03 GB

Genre: eLeanring | Duration: 1h 48m

Many animators have been intimidated by the mysterious shape layers in After Effects, and few have truly understood how to unlock the enormous potential they offer to motion graphics…until now! Congratulations, you’ve just discovered The Ultimate Guide to Shape Layers in After Effects!