After Effects Teacher - Get To Learn After Effects

This 93 minute, in-depth video tutorial is aimed at intermediate to advanced users of After Effects… in particular those who want to broaden their skills and open up the world of workflow and creative possibilities that expressions allow.

While for video production there are two stages – shooting and editing – in animation usually there are no strict distinction between those two. However sometimes you can learn useful things from real video production and apply them to animation. In this post we’ll look at three most common techniques.

Most tutorials teach you software and different techniques how to use it. This one is different. instead of teaching you software – this one teaches you animation principles that involves basic physics and makes your animation appear more realistic. A lot of people know how to add keyframes and get object to move, but only few knows how to make it move realistic. Watch this tutorial and be one of those few that knows.

Have you ever wandered why there are missing audio in your final rendered? Maybe you forgot to add audio in the first place? But most likely that’s not the case. If you’re using audio in After Effects here are some tips you need to know.

One of the most confusing things in After Effects is to find and use the Render function instead of Export. Especially beginners often times mises it as File->Export seams more logic than Composition->Add To render Queue. But even if you’re familiar with render queue there are several tips that will speed up your render time. Tips Presented by one of the VideoHive Top author Felt_Tips

Mostly animations inside After Effects is created with keyframes. It might seam a convenient way to do it, but it’s much easier to achieve some animations with expressions. They give you bigger control or even allow to achieve things that would be nearly impossible to achieve by manual key-framing.

In this tutorial we’ll be creating a stylish and glossy extruded 3D title with advanced lighting effects that can be controlled on the fly or even animated. We will be achieving the lighting effects without a single 3D light. So instead of tinkering the light we will straight be working with the lighting effects the light could have on 3D surface.

Short animations that will help to reveal your logo or title. Fully created and animated in After Effects. You can use them as intro to your videos, tutorials, podcasts. You can also explore those project files to learn techniques behind them. Download and enjoy.

There are several, really handy guides to learn Expressions from, or sharpen you existing skills. Most of them are in written form (instead of video) and might seem harder to follow, but with Expressions that is what you need. The pure code is in front of you, you can read it, copy it, reuse it and learn from professionals.

After Effects Professional and one of the VideoHive top author Felt-Tips gives useful advices on using After Effects in 6 short videos called Quicktips. Quicktips are intended to be short and sweet insider workflow tips, cunning workarounds and cheeky little gems that other tutorials miss. They are intended to be digestible in your coffee break and usable straightaway.