Readings / Tutorials

These resources are meant to help you and support your learning curves.

Ed’s PINTEREST BOARDS should be a great resource for tutorials and advanced techniques.

First thing is to acquaint yourself with the software.
For a GREAT summary of all that AE can do, watch the short links below from Video Copilot‘s excellent Basic Training Videos.

Go to Video Copilot and do the following tutorials in After Effects Basic Training:

(Best to watch in this order)

CH 1. Introduction

Also see Adobe’s Basic Interface, and AE Workflow Overview and Get to Know After Effects

CH 3. Animation

Also see Adobe’s Understanding Animation, and Keyframe animation in AE and Working with Compostions

CH 8 – Titles – Part 1 and  Part 2 – Don’t worry too much at first about the camera

Might be better to start with Adobe’s Create and animate Text Tutorials

CH 9 – Expressions

CH 10 – Rendering

THEN WATCH Sometime for Project two

CH 2 – EFFECTS

CH 4 – KEYING AND TRANSPARENCY

CH 5 – MOTION TRACKING

CH 6 – TIME REMAPPING

CH 7 – 3D INTEGRATION

The following are from the online resource Safari Online, for which the university has a site license. Log on with a university username and password.