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The Essential After Effects Training Series for the Serious Motion Artist

If you’re working in film, web or video, experts agree you have to be familiar with Adobe After Effects.

When you want to learn what industry pros consider to be one of the most powerful and essential software packages on the market, you need the best and most effective training available.

After Effects Essentials was made for you, the busy professional.
Some courses try to teach you EVERYTHING about a program, leaving you bored, overwhelmed, overworked and wondering why they don’t just teach the best things – the coolest things - the essential things needed to truly master a program and get on with working in it.

AE Essentials is Concise and to the point.
You won’t learn every possible way of doing something simple. Instead, you’ll learn the best, most efficient way.

AE Essentials is Productive.
There are many people that have taken training courses and felt like they spent a lot of time and effort yet didn’t learn anything. This course demands that you come out with proof of your learning.

AE Essentials is Inspiring
Jayse uses examples from real projects. You’ll find no hard-to-relate-to silly cartoons in these lessons.

AE Essentials is Rewarding
Through mini-assignments and Jayse’s frequent insistence that you should never learn something unless it can appear on your demo-reel, AE Essentials will ensure that you’ll have actual finished pieces to show the progress you’ve made.

AE Essentials is Worth it
At $99 it won’t waste your money; at a fast paced 9.5 hours that you can skip around in, it won’t waste your time.

In short, AE Essentials is

  • Challenging
  • Real-World
  • Design Driven
  • Effective
  • Efficient
  • ESSENTIAL

 

Benefits of CD/Video learning

  • Work at your own pace
  • Rewind and freeze-frame – Easily Review
  • Learn while traveling, use your laptop
  • Learn side-by-side with the program
  • Portable – 9.5 hours and extra files all fit on two CDs

 

MAIN TOPICS COVERED

Working in AE

  • Quickest way to master After Effects
  • Problem solving – Common issues like Interlacing, audio, etc.
  • Effects – how to maximize them
  • How to work super-efficiently in AE – preview shortcuts and optimization tricks and tips
  • Typography Design Tips
  • Combining Photoshop, Illustrator and AE
  • Transfer-Mode Tricks of Awesomness
  • Mastering Track Mattes to make things look more complex than they really are
  • Why you will learn to LOVE Expressions
  • 3D for dimensional motion magic

 

New Features to AE 5.5

  • Fantastic New Effects and the new Effects Palette
  • Awesome 3D Enhancements
  • SWF Import
  • Automated Proxies for super-fast workflow and more!

 

Extras

  • Lessons in good Typography - in motion
  • Demo Tips – a whole section devoted to maximizing your reel’s impact, with tips from the industry pros
  • Plug-in Demos from Trapcode , Zaxwerks and more!
  • Extra resources, templates, invoice blanks and PDF lessons are also included on the CDs

Reviews: Read what professionals are saying about AE Essentials.

 

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Transfer Mode Enhancements


Masking and Track Mattes


Illustrator Files in 3D


Mood Lighting


Film Look from Video


Complex Compositing


Expression Driven Animation


Animating Photoshop Layers


Camera fly-throughs and Depth of Field


Maximizing Basic Text

 

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