Let's Have Fun - Seriously!
What will be covered in this section
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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
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Getting Ready with Footage
Getting Ready to Animate - Assembling Footage
Completing the Animation with more Properties
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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
Practice Activity and Challenge - Section 1
Your Practice Activity Tutorial
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How to Download Animation Lectures
Your Learning take Away from this Section
Adding Graphics - Shapes and How to Create Them
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
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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
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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
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
Practice Activity and Challenge - Section 4
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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
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
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Your Learning Take away from this Section
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Creating Backgrounds with Solids
The Concept of Title Animation
Bringing in Text with Track Mattes
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
Another Method to Get Outline Only Text
Creating a Title Animation to Reverse
Reversing an Animation First Method
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Using Compositions as Track Mattes
Creating a Time Reversible Animation
Using the Time Reverse Technique
Layers at an Angle - the easy way
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How to get the baby Space Ships to follow the Mother Ship
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
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Forward Kinematic Concept
How to animate a group of Layers
Organizing the Robot Body Parts
Your Practice Activity - Have lots of Fun
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The Jumping Worm - A Bezier Pen Tool Animated
They are meeting in the Ring
The Circle and The Square - They Can Bezier Too!!
Homomorphism(ing) into a House
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
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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