Course Listing

Description: This class introduces students of film and video production to Adobe After Effects, long considered the industry standard in motion graphics. It covers the core concepts and skills necessary to work productively in motion graphics animation and visual effects, as well as advanced approaches and techniques to visual effects. In this course students will create compositions applying motion and animated effects to media elements, create transparency in layers using mattes, masks, and stencils, and much more.

Topics: Creating and sequencing compositions, applying effects and motion, blending transparencies with mattes, masks and modes, working with 3D effects and animation, keyframes and velocity control, applying After Effects to current workflow patterns and applications, rendering compositions and advanced rendering topics.