Post Description

In this course, author Ian Robinson introduces Adobe After Effects CS6 and the world of animation, effects, and compositing. Chapter 1 introduces the six foundations of After Effects, which include concepts like layers, keyframes, rendering, and moving in 3D space. The rest of the course expands on these ideas, and shows how to build compositions with layers, perform rotoscoping, animate your composition with keyframes, add effects and transitions, and render and export the finished piece. Two real-world example projects demonstrate keying green screen footage and creating an advanced 3D composition with the expanded 3D toolset, an important addition to CS6.
Topics include:

    Setting up the workspace, important preferences, and the cache
    Importing footage and comps
    Relinking missing footage
    Creating type, shape layers, and masks
    Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush
    Adjusting keyframes in the Graph Editor
    Timing animations to audio
    Building backgrounds with effects
    Rendering with the Render Queue and Adobe Media Encoder
    Animating 3D type
    Smoothing shaky footage and retouching footage
    Keying green screen footage
    Working with 3D: extruding shapes, adding ray-traced lighting, and more