Course Highlights
  • Learn the top techniques to create Professional Motion Graphics
  • Stand out from the crowd and create top notch Motion Graphics Videos and perfectly looped GIF
  • And Yes! You will become a top motion graphics designer and add it to your CV, Confidently!
  • Learn and Practice how to create: Fake 3D, Styling, Bouncing & Overshoot, Loops & Recursions, Morphing, Perfect Conversions...
  • Understand and Apply the most useful Effects for Motion Graphics to create outstanding Motion
  • Conquer importing from Illustrator by learning how to avoid beginners mistakes
  • Learn how to work with shape layers at all levels and how to create Geometric shape Animation
  • Learn and Practice with pro Bounce & overshoot expressions, animation techniques, path animations...
Curriculum

3 Topics
The Ultimate Motion Graphics Design Course
Navigating the Ultimate Motion Graphics Course: A Guide for Learners
Download your course assets

11 Topics
Animation Basics: Transform Properties
Setting Up for Success: Adobe After Effects Interface and Preferences Guide
Looping Animations - Jumpstart your animation skills
How to Create a GIF in After Effects & Adobe Media Encoder
Assembling and Exporting Multiple Animations as a GIF in Adobe After Effects
How to import vector files to After Effects
Creating a Day-to-Night Transition Animation in Adobe After Effects
Enhancing Animation Dynamics with Speed Control in Adobe After Effects
Practice Activity : New Day/Night Village
Practice Activity Solution : Day/Night Village
How to Create a Perfect Legacy GIF with color controls

10 Topics
The Motion Path and Spatial Interpolation
Motion Path animation with Speed Graph
Motion Path animation with Value Graph
The Motion Blur & Platforms Bounce
Practice Activity: Create an awesome Motion Path
Standard Method to create an MP4 in CC 2022
How to create an MP4 in CC 2023
Practice Activity - Shorts
Practice Solution - Bouncing Ball Speed Graph
Practice Activity - Motion Path - Pendulum

6 Topics
Overshoot & Bounce Intro
What is Overshoot and Bounce
Inertial Bounce (Overshoot)
Example of animation with Overshoot
Practice Activities - Pyramid stack - Just for Fun
Practice Activity Solution - Pyramid stack

8 Topics
Geometric Shapes Animation
Single Shape Layers
Compound Shape Layers
Geometric Shapes Part 1
Geometric Shapes Part 2
Geometric Shapes Part 3
Geometric Shapes Part 4
How to assemble in a single composition

5 Topics
Bezier Shapes
Creating Editing & Animating Bezier Shapes
Free form Bezier
Animating Bezier Path
Animating Bezier Path with bounce

10 Topics
Converting vectors to shape layers
How to organize Illustrator Graphics
How to convert vector layers to shapes in After Effects
How to fix conversion problems
When the Artwork is outside the Artboard
Getting help with simple efficient Plugin (1)
Getting help with simple efficient Plugin (2)
Practice Activity - The entire workflow
Practice Activity - Helpful Animation Techniques
Practice Activity: Helpful Styling Techniques

13 Topics
Shape Modifiers
Merge Path
Offset Path
Round Corners
Pucker & Bloat
Twist
Trim Path
Repeaters
Wiggle Path
Wiggle Transform
Zig Zag
Dashes
Taper & Wave

13 Topics
What is styling
Track Mattes in CC 2022 and older
Set Matte Effect
Styling with Tracks & Blending Modes
How to style with Layer styles
How to style with Effects Scatter
How to style with HLS & Blur
How to Style a weird planet
Animated Texture Styles
How to create Cartoon Effect - Turbulent Displace
Professional Fur effect
The Dancing Dissolve
How to create a Scribble style

7 Topics
The LoopOut and its attributes
Looping swing animation - Bend & Loop
Linear Loops
Linear Scaling Loops
How to Loop a Path animation
Recursions Methods 1
Recursions Methods 2

9 Topics
Jump Morph - Morph Concept
Bounce Morph
Path Animation Morphing
Just a simple morphing example
Morphing entire designs
Adding anticipation - First Example
Morphing with shape groups animations
Adding anticipation - Second Example
Adding Motion Lines (trails)

4 Topics
Fake 3D - Basic Techniques
Fake 3D - Going half way
Fake 3D - Face Rotation Techniques
Fake 3D - Path & Jump Techniques

3 Topics
Animation Techniques
Styling Techniques
Practice your skills: Motion Practice - Essentials

17 Topics
Animation Technique - Bend and Rotation
Animation Technique - Concentric Wave and Layer Styles
How to create and Animate with Styles
How to Loop distortion - to Perfection
Styling Techniques with effects
How to create dancing elements
How to create a flowing Animations
Animation Techniques: Not so Symmetric Animation Loops
Animation Techniques: How to connect paths to animations
Animation Techniques: Irregular loops
Animation Techniques: Connecting Motion
Styling Techniques with Mattes and Effects
Animation Techniques: How to create drops
How to create a single sided flowing Animation
How to discover the right matte
Animation Techniques: Setting the rhythm
Animate much better - Please

142 Topics
The old course
Let's Have Fun - Seriously!
What will be covered in this section
Download your graphics for this section
Getting the Graphics from Adobe Illustrator
Animate! Ease! and Sequence!
Motion Graphics Tips: Applying Effects
Create your Video or Gif and upload to Social Media
Practice Activities - Have fun Animating
What you will cover in this section
Download Your Section Footage to Follow Along
Getting Ready with Footage
Getting Ready to Animate - Assembling Footage
Animating Your Graphics
Completing the Animation with more Properties
Download the Practice Activity Challenge Footage
Your Practice Activity and Challenge for this Section
Your Practice Activity Tutorial
When your footage links break - Re-linking
Intro to Graphics in After Effects
After Effects Interface a Quick Overview
How to Create Motion Graphics Animation- A Structured Approach
Create Your Graphics with After Effects Tools
Animating Your Graphics
Practice Activity and Challenge - Section 1
Your Practice Activity Tutorial
Download the Project Files for this Section
How to Download Animation Lectures
Your Learning take Away from this Section
Adding Graphics - Shapes and How to Create Them
The Easy Way to Add Text
Adding Pen Drawings
Designing Your Phone
Animating Your Phone
Animating the Rest of the Phone
Tweaking your Phone Animation
Let's Go Pro - It's easy - Nesting and Precomposing
How about adding Some Visual Effects
Create your first Video and Upload
How to Get H.264 if you don't have it
Practice Activity and Challenge - Section 2
Download the Project Files for this Section
Your Learning Take Away from This Section
What is inside a Shape Layer
Let's Create this Walking Guy - Simple Compound Shapes
Let's Get Walking - Part One
He is Walking!! Beginner's Style
Walking with a Scenery
Download the Project Files for this Section
Your Learning Take Away from This Section
Download the Angry Birds Images to create your project
How to Import Your Asset and Footage
Importing from Illustrator - It doesn't matter if you know Illustrator
Designing Your Scene
How does Animation Work in Space - The Motion Path in Details
Animating in Space - Motion Path with the Black Bird
Animating in Space - Motion Path with the Yellow Bird
Easing these fellows - Manipulate Time on a Motion Path - (Download Enabled)
Let's get them to Ease - Application
Slow them Down - An Intro to the Motion Graph
Take Control of Easing: How to Manipulate the Graph Editor
How about Speeding In and Speeding Out
Lets Go Bezier
Practice Activity and Challenge - Section 4
Download the Project Files for this Section 4
The Confused Guy - Your Learning Take Away from this Section
Let's Dig Deeper in Shapes and Add more
The Circle and The Stroke
Here is Shadow Effects Explained in Detail
The Circle and The Fill
How to Repeat and Repeat and Repeat - The Repeater Concept
This is How to Animate Your Repeats
Get this Confused Guy Home - Trimming the Path
Parametric Shapes and Trim Path
My Dream House - Wireframes Drawings - You gotta see this!
Here is How you Trim the Pen and Repeat it
I couldn't Stop - Another Trim Pen and Repeat
How to Walk the Confused Guy Home
Download the Project Files for Section 5
Your Learning Take away from this Section
Download your First Project Files for this section
Creating Backgrounds with Solids
The Concept of Title Animation
Bringing in Text with Track Mattes
The Inverse Method
How to use Luminosity on Text and Mattes
Using Pre-Comps to Pop Text
Changing Text Layer Content with Time
Rolling Text on its own Path
Text Climbing Mountains
Texturing your Text
Another Method to Get Outline Only Text
Creating a Title Animation to Reverse
Reversing an Animation First Method
Your Second Project Files for this section
Using Compositions as Track Mattes
Creating a Time Reversible Animation
Using the Time Reverse Technique
Layers at an Angle - the easy way
Download your Space Ships Assets
How to get the baby Space Ships to follow the Mother Ship
The Anchor Point Effect
Children Don't Stay Still
Even a Comp can become a Child
The Rowdy Child - Breaking off the Parent
Your Practice Activity - Adding a Space Dimension
Download your complete Project files for Section 7
What it is all about
Download the Asset files for this section
Forward Kinematic Concept
Animating a Robotic Arm
Animating a Simple Robot
How to animate a group of Layers
Scaling the Robot
Organizing the Robot Body Parts
Rigging Becomes a Breeze
Your Practice Activity - Have lots of Fun
Download your Project files for this section
The Jumping Worm - A Bezier Pen Tool Animated
They are meeting in the Ring
The Circle and The Square - They Can Bezier Too!!
The Boxing Match
The First Vertex Theory
How to Damage Your Path
Homomorphism(ing) into a House
Morphing Colors
What you will learn in this Section
The Wrong Way to Import your Vector File
Setting your AI Layers and Groups
How to Create Shape Layers from Vector Graphics
Download your final project file
The 4 Phase Walk
Download the start up project
Animating the Banana Back Foot
Animating the Front Foot - Completing the Foot Cycle
Connecting the Feet to the Legs - Now the Banana is Walking
Animating the Hands - An easier Approach
Bouncing the Banana for a more Natural Walk
Taking the Banana for a walk
Taking the Banana for a walk - First Method
Taking the Banana for a walk - Second Method
Final Project Download - Banana Man Animation

1 Topic
The Way Forward

1 Topic
Bonus: Your Next Step.

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