After Effects Introduction Course

Dates: 16/11/2012 - 14/12/2012 (20% discount)

             14/01/2013 - 11/02/2013    

              27/02/2013 - 27/03/2013

Day: Fridays

Time: 18:30 - 21:00

Duration: 5 weeks

Price was: £184 (Conc. £110)

This course seeks to give you the necessary confidence to take your understanding of this amazingly versatile software one step further. This course is delivered through a set of 'real-world' projects to complete in class. With media (provided on the course CD) and comprehensive accompanying notes, you should be able to re-create the projects completed in class at home on your own system.

Upon completing this course, you will:
• Understand where After Effects is placed in the media workflow
• Be able to animate the main layer properties of a project over time using keyframes and basic helpers, such as the wiggler
• Be aware of the difficulties of editing in After Effects
• Have a basic understanding of layers and compositions
• Be able to create and edit masks and their properties
• Know how to apply effects to layers and to understand when to apply adjustment layers
• Be able to nest compositions
• Have a basic understanding of expressions
• Have an understanding of the paint and clone tools
• Be able to perform basic motion tracking in video footage
• Be confident in creating and manipulating text
• Be able to use the render queue to export multiple versions of completed work
Students will need at least a basic understanding of an editing software package and/or another digital media creation software package (for example, Adobe Photoshop,  Illustrator,
Flash and so on). Students should be fluent in English.