After Effects - Animated Infographic Video & Data Visualisation

Class Project - Data visualization & infographic project in Adobe After Effects

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Course contents
SECTION: 1
Overview 8:27
SECTION: 2
Animating Infographics 54:42
SECTION: 3
Techniques for beautiful animation 44:43
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Camera – 1 Node 9:36
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Preview & Playback 6:45
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Icon build 14:18
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Color & Backgrounds 10:22
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Data Visualization 1:31:50
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Camera – 2 Node 9:54
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Masking 22:31
SECTION: 11
Real life video infographics 28:43
SECTION: 12
Exporting 30:45
SECTION: 13
What next 59:14

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Leigh Armstrong

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Took much longer than I thought it would. Definitely got the hang of it eventually though. I think I'd be much quicker next time.
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Preslav Dobrev

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Hi guys, This is my project.
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Ana Beltrán

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Scott Rook

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Raghad Alqahtani

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all illustrations drawn by me, finland flag from freepik, image from unsplash
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Steve Prince

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Course info

52 lessons / 7 hours 1 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is  Dan. I’m a Adobe Certified Instructor and I LOVE animating infographics & bringing potentially boring data to life using After Effects.

This course is for beginners. You don’t need any previous knowledge in AFX or any motion graphic experience. We’ll start with the super basics, taking simple icons breathing life into to them with After Effects.

We’ll work through a real life projects, connecting Excel into After Effects to transform your boring spreadsheet data into approachable visual information. We’ll experiment with lighting & cameras. We’ll do some fun things with masking, looking at how important sound is in your presentation, all the way through to exporting for Youtube, Powerpoint and all sorts of social media including animated GIFS.  

There are projects for you to complete, so you can practice your skills and use these for your portfolio. There is a cheat sheet and I’ve got exercise files so you can play along. I will also save my files as I go through each video so that you can compare yours to mine - handy if something goes wrong.

Know that I will be around to help - if you get lost you can drop a post on the video 'Questions and Answers' below each video and I'll be sure to get back to you.

What are you waiting for? Lets get making!


What are the requirements?

  • You will need a copy of Adobe After Effects, Illustrator & Photoshop CC 2017 or above. 90% of the course will be done in After Effects but a few things are better done in Illustrator & Photoshop. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.

  • No previous motion graphic skills are needed.

  • No previous After Effects, Illustrator or Photoshop skills are needed.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 48 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content.

  • You'll learn to take Excel spread sheets and animate this in After Effects.

  • You’ll learn how to make animated pie charts, line charts & bar graphs.

  • You’ll learn how to create percentage counters.

  • You’ll learn how to animate icons making beautiful infographics.

  • You’ll learn how to create 'voice over' infographics.

  • You’ll learn all the animation techniques needed to bring your data to life.

  • You will have the finished files so you never fall behind.

  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.

  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.

  • Techniques used by professional motion graphic designers.

  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

  • No previous After Effects experience is necessary.

  • This course is for people completely new to After Effects. No previous animation or motion graphic design experienced is necessary.

  • This is a relaxed, well paced introduction that will enable you to produce impressive video for your business or organization. Only basic computing skills are necessary - If you can send emails and surf the internet then you will cope well with our course.

  • There is a 100% refund if you don’t find this course useful. Just message me, no questions asked, I’ll refund your payment in full.

Course duration 5.5 hours + your study.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

Downloads & Exercise files

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Transcript

All right, so it's Class Project time. What I've done is, in you Exercise Files there's one called '11 Class Exercise', and there is a mp3 in here. It is a voice over for a company named Craft Espresso; it's a fictional company. I'd like you to create an Infographic for that.

So have a listen through, there's no rules, no restrictions. I'd just like to see it at the end. So go through, build an animation. If you run into any problems, or if there's things, and you're like, "I wish I could do that though,” drop me a comment, I'd love to help you out. When you're finished, upload it to either YouTube or Vimeo and send me a link, I want to see it.

And know from me that people that actually bother going and doing these little exercises are the people that really remember the course. It's not until you actually have to do stuff on your own before you're like, "Huh, I thought I knew that," and go through and figure it out, go back to the videos, it creates real learning.

So, send me your files, I'd love to see it. No restrictions on what you can do, it can be simple, it can be amazing. You can spend 10 minutes on it, you can spend an hour. If you think it's lame, don't worry, everybody's going to start somewhere, still send it to me, I'd like to see it.

Remember, you can also use this in your own portfolio. So stick it up on your site, you can use it as an animated GIF, or put it up as a YouTube link. You have total rights to use my voice over. And Craft Espresso doesn't actually insist, but you can create a logo for that if you choose.

All right, let's get on to the last of the video series.

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