After Effects Class Recordings 2019 Q1 Hamburg

Here you will find all the recordings of the After Effects Basic course 2019 Q1 in Hamburg.


Installation / General Settings / Overview

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In the first session we installed a couple of plugins and tools. After that we had a quick overview of the interface, and learned about the basics of keyframes.



Text animations – part 1

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In this session we started with a little animation project where we focus on text animations.



Text animations – part 2 / 3D Map animation

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We finished our text animation and learned how to change numbers like magic.
Then we covered some additional topics, like changing a website with CSS and I showed an extension for Chrome that you can use to alter website permanently to your liking. Here the link, if you are interested:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha?hl=en
After that we learned how to stitch images with Photoshop, and how to use Rove across keyframes.



Tracking and Stabilizing

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This class we talked about different techniques when it comes to tracking. We used the 3D Camera Tracker and the Warp Stabilizer.



More tracking

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We took our tracking skills a bit further and created a playful animation.



Website animation in 2.5D Part 1

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In todays session we started with a website animation and we learned about Master Properties.



Website animation in 2.5D Part 2 / Numbers and Bars

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After we finished our website animation I showed you how we can animate a loading bar and have everything interactively connected to a slider. I showed you also some other examples of creating different types of graphs.



Animating to Music – Part 1

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We learned how to animate to music, learned a basic glitch technique and multiple other animation tricks.



Animating to Music – Part 2

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We continued with our project from the previous session.