Course Overview

The Visual Effects & Motion Graphics program helps you to learn how to use your creativity to produce attention-grabbing communication design for film, television, and the Web. Visual effects are responsible for movie trailers, opening film credits, television commercials, animated network identities, and short promos. Graduates are prepared to seek entry-level employment such as production assistant, assistant designer, visual effect specialist, or broadcast design assistant.

The Motion Graphics and Visual FX Concentration emphasizes both the artistic and technical aspects of motion design, while also providing students a thorough grounding in traditional filmmaking skills.

Students graduate with the skill set, experience, and professional portfolio necessary to launch successful careers.

COURSE CONTENTS:

1 GETTING TO KNOW THE WORKFLOW
Getting started
Creating a project and importing footage
Creating a composition and arranging layers
Adding eects and modifying layer properties
Animating the composition
Previewing your work
Optimizing performance in After Effects
Rendering and exporting your composition
Customizing workspaces
Controlling the brightness of the user interface
Finding resources for using After Effects
Review questions and answers
2 CREATING A BASIC ANIMATION USING EFFECTS AND PRESETS
Getting started
Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
Creating a new composition
Working with imported Illustrator layers
Applying eects to a layer
Applying an animation preset
Previewing the eects
Adding transparency
Rendering the composition
Review questions and answers

3 ANIMATING TEXT
Getting started
About text layers
Installing a font using Adobe Fonts
Creating and formatting point text
Using a text animation preset
Animating with scale keyframes
Animating using parenting
Animating imported Photoshop text
Animating type tracking
Animating text opacity
Using a text animator group
Animating a layer’s position
Timing layer animations
Adding motion blur
Review questions and answers

4 WORKING WITH SHAPE LAYERS
Getting started
Creating the composition
Adding a shape layer
Creating a self-animating shape
Duplicating a shape
Creating custom shapes
Positioning layers with snapping
Animating a shape
Creating nulls from paths
Previewing the composition
Review questions and answers

5 ANIMATING A MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION
Getting started
Adjusting anchor points
Parenting layers
Precomposing layers
Keyframing a motion path
Animating additional elements
Applying an effect
Animating precomposed layers
Animating the background
Adding an audio track
Review questions and answers

6 ANIMATING LAYERS
Getting started
Simulating lighting changes
Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
Animating movement in the scenery
Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
Animating the shadows
Adding a lens flare effect
Adding a video animation
Rendering the animation
Retiming the composition
Review questions and answers

7 WORKING WITH MASKS
About masks
Getting started
Creating a mask with the Pen tool
Editing a mask
Feathering the edges of a mask
Replacing the content of the mask
Adding a reflection
Creating a vignette
Adjusting the timing
Trimming the work area
Review questions and answers

8 DISTORTING OBJECTS WITH THE PUPPET TOOLS
Getting started
About the Puppet tools
Adding Position pins
Adding Advanced and Bend pins
Stiffening an area
Animating pin positions
Using the Puppet tools to animate video
Recording animation
Review questions and answers

9 USING THE ROTO BRUSH TOOL
About rotoscoping
Getting started
Creating a segmentation boundary
Fine-tuning the matte
Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
Changing the background
Adding animated text
Outputting your project
Review questions and answers

10 PERFORMING COLOR CORRECTION
Getting started
Adjusting color balance with levels
Adjusting color with the Lumetri Color effect
Replacing the background
Color-correcting using Auto Levels
Motion tracking the clouds
Replacing the sky in the second clip
Color grading
Review questions and answers

11 CREATING MOTION GRAPHICS TEMPLATES
Getting started
Preparing a master composition
Setting up a template
Adding properties to the Essential Graphics panel
Providing image options
Protecting the timing of a section
Exporting the template
Review questions and answers

12 WORKING WITH THE 3D CAMERA TRACKER
About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
Getting started
Tracking the footage
Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
Creating additional text elements
Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer
Tidying the composition
Adding a final object
Creating realistic shadows
Adding ambient light
Adding an effect
Previewing the composition
Review questions and answers

13 ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES
Getting started
Stabilizing a shot
Using single-point motion tracking
Using multipoint tracking
Creating a particle simulation
Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
Review questions and answers

14 RENDERING AND OUTPUTTING
Getting started
About rendering and output
Exporting using the Render Queue
Creating templates for the Render Queue
Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
Review questions and answers

TRAINING VENUE
Cr8ive Xpats Academy, 1/3, Olaleye Road, Off Apata Road, Shomolu, Lagos
info@cr8ivexpats.com, +2349086125352