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Inspiration 4:15
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Swinging text 10:36
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Puppet tool 5:54
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Effects & presets 6:56
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What now? 3:56

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Course info

53 lessons / 6 hours

Overview

Motion graphics are an essential part of video creation and editing. From moving titles across the screen to stabilising your footage to smooth out the bumps or replacing a sign in the background. Ubiquitous, subtly powerful, and for the beginner, a bit mystifying. You need to learn motion graphics. You need a tutorial that will help at every step of the way, without leaving you drowning in details.

If you’ve ever made a video, you’ve probably already discovered that it’s all the little extra infographics, titles and animation that make your project look professional – and you’ve probably already wondered which is the right After Effects tutorial that will let you access the potential.

After Effects is the industrial strength tool for putting the motion in your graphic designs and content. It can also appear to be pretty deep, so getting guidance from a pro that understands how to teach, as much as how to use, After Effects is going to be the key that unlocks your potential.

How about a motion graphics tutorial taught by a working professional who just happens to be great at teaching too? Daniel Scott has been working with animation and motion graphics for over a decade and is the founder of Bring Your Own Laptop - they've been helping people learn design and animation all over the world for just as long.

 



 

Daniel, an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, will take you one manageable step at a time through motion graphics in a series of small practical projects that come together to unlock Adobe After Effects, animation, and infographics. These tutorials give you the complete foundation that you can build on for years to come. Learn the principles and the specifics of producing content, in a way that you'll understand and remember. And stay awake.

Just 3 hours long, and very hands on, you’ll take on specific tools and techniques one at a time so you can easily comprehend each aspect of the tutorial, and see all the parts of creating motion graphics before you get intimidated by the scale of what you can do. From zero to hero, as we like to say.

You get downloadable exercise files that match the course, so no time wasted trying to match project settings or finding material to work with. And you can use the end results in your own projects or portfolio – you can customise them to suit your needs as you grow in understanding.

To learn motion graphics is to unlock the door on the magic that makes your video or web content stand out in the crowd. Daniel is going to provide you with the motion graphics tutorial you’ve been looking for to get more than your foot in the door – you’re going to be able to create beautiful animation and infographics. You’ll be empowered to use After Effects the way it was meant to be used, and to create your own creative content, even during the tutorial itself.

What are the requirements?

  • This course is for absolute beginners

  • You'll need a copy of Adobe After Effects CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • Create beautiful motion graphics

  • Animate compelling infographics

  • Choose the correct video settings.

  • You’ll learn how to exporting your video easily.

  • You’ll be able to create slick type animations.

  • Rendering your video for Youtube & Vimeo.

  • Create titles for interviews.

  • Add music to your motion graphics.

  • Trim & editing video.

  • Add watermarking your video.

  • Fixing shaky footage.

  • Color correct & fix any bad footage.

  • Add a vignette to your video.

  • Learn how to use your skills from Illustrator & Photoshop

  • How to use green screen footage

  • How to mask like a pro.

  • How to animate infographics like bar graphs, line graphs & pie charts.

  • How to use camera to make 3D type.

  • Animating static images using parallax

  • Plus basic character animation.

  • + More…

What is the target audience?

Yes:

  • This course is for people who want to start earning money as a motion graphics designer.

  • This course is for beginners wanting to learn to use After Effects for motion graphics and infographics.

  • No previous After Effects or animation skills are necessary.

No:

  • This course is NOT for people who have a good understanding of After Effects already. This is for new people only.

Course duration 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.

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Transcript

All right, so we're at the end, what next? So, what’s next is, you can keep in contact with me, ask me questions. Find out if you're doing all right, or if there's another way of doing it. There's a few different ways now.

What I do is, there is a form on every page. On every page - you're probably on this page - it's down the bottom there. There is a little form you can play around with, it's on our website. And ask questions. The other thing you can do is, there's a live chat. When I'm online, I make sure I click on that little live chat. You might see it off here on the website, down on the bottom right. There is a little live chat thing. If it says I'm available, I actually am. Just sitting here, at my desk, doing stuff.

Drop me a message if things are broken, things aren't working, just want to chat. Have a little bit of a live chat thing going. The other thing you can do is that-- bi-weekly, I have a little live video string thing. I use YouTube. It just means that we can-- I sit there for about an hour, normally by myself. You can jump into the chat, and ask questions, and I'm live, I'll answer them. It's not as scary as it sounds. You just have a little chat window. I don't get to see you and your pretty Janes. It's just me, answering questions. It might be After Effects, it might be Premiere. It might be like, "Hey, I want to get more work,” or, "Hey, After Effects is not working," or, "Hey Dan, just stop ***." I generally sit there by myself, so jump in, have a chat. Yes, it's nice and easy that way.

The other things you can do is that, I've got a cheat sheet. There'll be a link down below here. Just a printable cheat sheet that allows you to-- just got the cool stuff we've gone through. Print it out, stick it next to you. Look pro, it looks pretty.

The last thing, I guess, the second last thing, is the teacher resources, so if you are teaching this, and you've been asked to teach this next week, next semester, or-- and you need to get it up to speed, you do my course, and then there's a Teachers & Resources page. So have a look at that on the website. The cool thing about that is, you can watch the videos, download the exercise files, and use that in your class. It will allow you to.

There's also this thing in there, there's notes. Two sets of notes, ones that you can give to your students. There's a little thing you can get those from. And there's a teachers set as well that you can buy. And we send those out to you, and you can use them in your class. It's heaps cheaper than, say, invest in a book. Follow this tutorial series. Hopefully it will make your life a little easier.

The last thing that I'd like to do is ask you for your help. In terms of what makes me successful in terms of my online training, it's links. So, if you enjoyed this class, you enjoyed my style, I'd love a link. If you have a website, link to me. If you have a Facebook page, link to me. If you've got an easier way of sharing me, or linking me, I'd love you to link to the-- say it's the After Effects page, I'd love you to link to the overview page, or the link to that description as well, the one you can link to. It's the kind of thing where the more links I have, the more views that I have, the more courses I can do.

I'll probably still keep working out of my home office. I'll still keep pretending my desk is always this clean. It's never that clean. My junks just down there. But the more views that I get, the more I get to do. Yes, all that sort of jazz. So that's the end for this course. I will see you. Check out some of my other courses, we've got Photoshop, Dreamweaver. There's UX courses, there's InDesign. There's all sorts of Adobe stuff. Dan loves Adobe. Ta, see you then.

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