Adobe After Effects Essentials

About this course

Motion graphics bring logos, titles and ideas to life. This five-day course introduces Adobe After Effects step by step, so you can create smooth, professional animation for video, presentations and social media.

You will build compositions, animate with keyframes, refine timing with easing, design animated text, work with shapes and masks, and apply effects with restraint. Each day ends with a practical exercise, and you finish with a short animated piece of your own and the confidence to keep creating.

What you'll learn

• Navigate the After Effects workspace and manage projects and footage
• Build compositions and organise layers efficiently
• Animate position, scale, rotation and opacity with keyframes
• Refine motion using easing, the graph editor and motion paths
• Create animated titles and kinetic typography
• Use masks, shape layers and track mattes for creative effects
• Apply and customise effects and presets
• Render and export motion graphics for video and social media

Curriculum

Who it's for

For designers, video editors, marketers and content creators who are new to After Effects and want to start producing motion graphics.

Before you start

• Basic computer skills; some familiarity with Photoshop or Illustrator is helpful

Part of these Alalamia diplomas

• Alalamia Diploma in Video Production, Editing and Motion Graphics