After Effects Bootcamp

This was created for Gracepoint's After Effects Best Practices class (2013). In this repository, you'll find:

• tutorials that teach certain key concepts of After Effects
• all the original assets for you to use as you learn the concepts
• final Premiere + After Effects files (to use as comparison)
• final video (with special effects and all)

Original project template taken from abeyang/video-project-template

Getting Started

1. Go through Art of Motion Graphics presentation
2. Have Premiere and After Effects installed (CC preferred; CS6 would be next best option)
3. Download and unzip this repo
4. Install the fonts inside Extras/Fonts/
5. Understand how the assets are managed
6. Open (AE project file..)

Tutorials

Each tutorial teaches a few key concepts, and it increases with difficulty. They'll also be building on top of each other, so it's important to do this in order. Finally, each tutorial ends with a hands-on lesson.

By the end of the tutorials, you would have recreated the final video.

All tutorials are located inside Extras/Tutorials/:

1. Keyframing + Text Animation Basics
   • Animation principles
   • Keyframes
   • Text animation
   • After Effects Interface
2. Animation Properties
   • Opacity/Position/Scale
   • Pre-composition
   • Corner Pins
3. Your Turn
4. Animation Curves + Trackers
   • Animation Principles
   • Linear vs. easy-ease
   • Understanding the animation graph
   • Null objects and trackers
5. Nesting Layers and Masks
   • Importing assets from Photoshop
6. Motion-tracking + 3D transforms
7. EXTRA Premiere and After Effects
   • Rendering out from AE
   • Workflow between Premiere and AE
     • Dynamic Linking
     • Standards and Best Practices
8. EXTRA Exporting Videos with Transparent Backgrounds

Misc

All images have been optimized by ImageOptim; all video footages have been down-sampled to 720p @ 6kbps. All this was done in order to save space, so that it can fit under Github's 1GB/repo (and 100MB/file) limit.