After Effects For Graphic Design
After Effects For Graphic Design
After Effects For Graphic Design
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Description
As a designer, you’re constantly challenged to create new and compelling imagery for your projects. That sometimes requires new tools. After Effects is known for animation, but it's also a powerful program for graphic designers. Its panels and basic features are similar to Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, which makes After Effects easier for designers to learn. This course offers a unique workflow, combining Photoshop with After Effects to create stunning, unique, and professional-quality assets for print, web, and photography. Instructor Chris Converse — founding partner of Codify Design Studio — shows how to create special effects, add dramatic lighting to photos, color key images, build textures and patterns, and generate artwork from almost nothing, producing effects like water, bubbles, lightning, and rain. The course is for any designer—even if you’ve never used After Effects before. Chris demos each example step by step, and shows how the results can be used in real-world design projects.
Who is the target audience?
• Graphic Designers
• Photographers
• Illustrators
• Web Designers
• Ayone who wants to create visually stunning artwork
Basic knowledge
• Some knowledge of Photoshop is helpful
What will you learn
• Create jaw-dropping visuals in just a few minutes
• Create unique artwork for any design project
• Enhance photographs with lighting and special effects
• Enhance illustrations and artwork with high quality effects
• Generate unique patterns and textures from any image
• Learn to combine After Effects and Photoshop to design amazing graphics
Course Curriculum
Introduction
• Using After Effects for design projects
• About the exercise files
• A brief intro to After Effects
• Getting comfortable with the After Effects interface
• Importing Photoshop files
• Exporting Photoshop, JPG and PNG files
Creating Special Effects
• Creating an editorial graphic
• Creating an editorial graphic - Resource File
• Add a dramatic lighting effect
• Adding a Page Curl
• Creating a burst of light
• Color keying for transparent imagery
• Color keying for advanced transparency – part 1
• Color keying for advanced transparency – part 2
Creating Patterns and Textures
• Creating a kaleidoscope pattern
• Generating a unique texture
• Create line art from a photo
• Shapes with radio waves
• Interlocking zig zag pattern
Generating Artwork from (Almost) Nothing
• Enhancing an illustration with lightning
• Enhancing an illustration with rain
• Creating a water surface — part 1
• Creating a water surface — part 2
• Creating a water surface — part 3
• Making realistic melted chocolate - part 1
• Making realistic melted chocolate - part 2
• Creating bubbles for champagne — part 1
• Creating bubbles for champagne — part 2
Where to go from here
• Where to go from here