This means that you will have a good foundation for either setting up your own VFX shots, knowing when to use it, working with freelancers or transferring your new knowledge of the principles to similar packages. Even if you decide it’s not quite for you, the course will still give you a good overview of the package while teaching the fundamental principles of post-production visual effects.
The real benefit of this course is it’s flexibility. Once students have completed this course, they will be armed with the basic knowledge to begin using and exploring After Effects on their own. Participants will undertake a hands-on project designed to introduce all the essentials of this powerful package.
You can learn how to treat the footage by ‘grading’ it and learn how to apply titles, motion graphics and visual effects. A knowledge of Adobe Photoshop is useful but not essential. If you haven’t, please take our Adobe Premiere editing or FCPX editing courses first. You MUST have some experience of a professional non-linear editing package ( Premiere, AVID or FCP). This course is for both low-budget filmmakers who want to learn affordable tools, for transforming their own footage and those looking to explore animation, motion graphics, grading or special effects.
What can Adobe After Effects be used for?Īfter Effects resolution is flexible so you can generate and transform moving images for delivery from the smallest mobile device up to movie theater screens. It’s also great for animators who need to need one package that lets them draw, animate and enhance footage. Hand sanitiser, wipes and gloves will be available.Īfter Effects is used by independent Producers to improve their own films, as well as ‘high-end’ specialists like Motion Graphic Designers, Compositors and VFX artists as an essential part of their software toolkit. Learners will be expected to bring their own masks to wear (or be provided with a disposable one). Each learner will have a cleaned computer and individual desk just for them for the weekend. This course will follow social distancing rules, each person will stay 2 meters apart.
While After Effects is sophisticated it is also versatile and can be used for a broad range of purposes from improving the quality of existing footage or generating new content from scratch.įor example, unwanted artefacts can be removed from a scene, new elements can be added and treated with special effects or text can typed and animated with customisable presets to create interesting titles fast.Ĭovid-19: Safety is our number 1 priority. Cost: £165, £149 (early booking discount until 18th Oct.), £124 concessionsĪdobe After Effects is Adobe’s® leading software solution for creating animation, motion graphics and visual effects.