After Effects CC Masterclass: Complete After Effects Course

Welcome to the Adobe After Effects CC course! Learn how this course works, and how to make it a great experience for you!

In this lesson, you can download all of the course project files. 

In this lesson of the Adobe After Effects CC course, you're going to dive right in and animate your name! Sounds fun, right? Don't worry, just follow all of the steps I'm doing and you'll be fine.

Do you have an effect you want to learn? Here's where you can submit your ideas.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll get oriented to the After Effects workspace. Learn where the main tools and menus are. Learn about the major panels and windows such as the project, effects controls, composition, and timeline panels. 

By the end of this lesson, my goal is that you feel confident jumping right in to starting your first composition.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, learn how to start a new composition - choosing the right settings so you have a sequence that matches your quality. Also learn how to make adjustments to the composition panel itself, so you have a better playback experience.

This CC 2018 update allows you to easily create a composition from footage to match settings.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to import media assets into After Effects. This is how you import things like photos, videos, graphics, audio files, etc. to work on in your project. You'll also learn about adding these assets to your timeline - and what you can do with them once they're there.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to start using the tools in After Effects. These tools include:

• Selection
• Move
• Rotation
• Shape & Mask
• Pen
• Zoom
• Pan Behind / Anchor Point Tool
• Text

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to create the perfect square or circle. You'll also learn how to align any layer to the center of your composition. Plus, you'll learn how to change shape layer colors.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to navigate the timeline, such as trimming the comp work area, zooming in and out, turning on and off individual layers, soloing a single layer, and better organization tips.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn about layer properties, and how to adjust things like position, scale, rotation, opacity, and anchor point.

In this lesson of the Adobe After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to create an animation. We'll be using keyframes to animation the opacity of a layer. By understanding how to animate with keyframes, you'll know the basic building block of the most complex animations.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to animate several properties of a layer such as position, size, and rotation.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to make animations look even better and more natural with easy ease and motion blur.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to make your animations look even better by playing with the speed of things using the graph editor.

It's time to challenge yourself to create a 'real world' animation using the skills you have. In this After Effects CC challenge, create a bouncing ball animation.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll follow along with the solution to my bouncing ball animation.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to use solid layers. You'll also learn the difference between solids and shape layers - specifically about how masks are applied to solids.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn more about working with shape layers, including adding dashes to your stroke, and editing the path.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to apply layer styles to layer like drop shadow, inner shadow, bevel and emboss, and gradients.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to add shape effects such as a wiggle effect, trim path animation to a stroke, and even how to group effects.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to easily make layers appear and disappear with a track matte animation.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to easily group multiple layers to use in other compositions.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to quickly reverse any animation in just 3 steps - and no keyframes!

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to affect time - speeding up and slowing down your video, creating custom freeze frames, and much more!

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to use blend modes, which affects how layers look when on top of each other. With these blend modes, you can even create a cut out effect with video showing through your text!

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to quickly stabilize your footage right within After Effects with the warp stabilizer effect.

This CC 2018 update allows you to preview and favorite fonts easier than ever!

Welcome to this new section, where we'll be working through a number of real-world projects using the skills you've learned so far!

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to implement your skills in a new real world project. This is a clean lower third that can be used for any type of video.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to implement your skills in a new real world project. This is a colorful transition that makes any video transition more fun and exciting.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to implement your skills in a new real world project. In this project, you'll learn how to make it look like your text is working with your video environment.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to implement your skills in a new real world project. In this project, you'll learn how to design a text message 'pop on' effect.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to implement your skills in a new real world project. This is part 1 of the weather app user design animation. In this lesson, we'll be designing the app right within After Effects.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to implement your skills in a new real world project. This is part 2 of the weather app user design animation. In this lesson, we'll be animating the app portion of the project.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to implement your skills in a new real world project. This is part 3 of the weather app user design animation. In this lesson, we'll be adding details such as motion and a reflection of the phone itself.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to implement your skills in a new real world project. This is a logo reveal, perfect for video openers, bumpers, and intros.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how Phil designs his own flat animation scene using just shape layers.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to make motion graphic fireworks in After Effects.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to remove a green screen background with the Keylight 1.2 effect. You'll also learn how to fix any issues with spotting and distortion from removing a green screen background.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to add a background to your green screen video, and how to make it look natural with positioning, sizing, and color correction.

Learn how to add motion to a still photo with the puppet tool.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to use the ripple effect to add subtle motion to leaves in a photograph.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll dive into the world of 3D. While After Effects is not a three-dimensional program, you can still work within 3D space. That's what will be covered in this lecture - including how to use the camera tool and view options.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll create a swinging text animation that helps explain 3D in After Effects.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll animate the 3D space scene with a null object and a camera move.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to create stars in After Effects.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to use the rotoscope tool to separate something in the foreground from the background. This is a great way to cut out moving objects in your video without green screen.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to clean up the edges of your rotoscope selection.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to animate the advertisement shot that we used in this section.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to replace a TV screen with whatever content you want and make it look realistic.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn another way to replace a TV screen, that includes 3D rotation, reflections, and overlays to make it look natural.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to replace a screen such as a mobile device, tv, or computer, with the Mocha tool.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to set the pins using the puppet tool, along with adjusting the mesh.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to animate the puppet pins to make a still image look like it's moving.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how I created an animated eye blink for our flying owl. Plus, you'll see the importance of using pre-compositions when doing so.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to create clouds out of a solid layer, and how to animate them to look like the owl is flying right through them.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to apply and adjust text animation presets to your text layers.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to create an animated page flip effect with CC Page Turn. We'll build out a composition that looks like a book's pages are being flipped over.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn a quick way to add a linear and radial wipe to any layer.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to do basic color correction in After Effects.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, we'll dive into motion tracking - how you can attach effects and graphics to something moving in your video. This lesson covers how to use the motion tracker to track the motion, before applying it to any other layer.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to attach text layers and other visual effects to the motion-tracked layer.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to do more advanced motion tracking, by tracking scale and rotation. This allows you to track the motion of video while the camera is moving.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to add more detail to your motion-tracking project to make the text look like it's more a part of the video environment.

Welcome to a new section of the After Effects CC course. This section is all about character animations!

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll design your own superhero character using simple shapes.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to properly rig your body in preparation of animation.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to animate your superhero - making them appear to jump into the sky.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to add a background to your character animation, which gives their motion more context.

In this lesson of the After Effects CC course, you'll learn how to make your character animations look even better with details.