本视频教程是由Skillshare机构出品的AE动画技巧实例训练视频教程，Skillshare Introduction to After Effects for Animation Create Your Own Music Inspired Short，时长：2小时43分，大小：2.5 GB，MP4高清视频格式，附工程源文件，教程使用软件：After Effects CC 2015，作者：Claire Pinegar，共17个章节，语言：英语。
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Skillshare Introduction to After Effects for Animation Create Your Own Music Inspired Short
This class is for designers and illustrators that are looking to bring their vector illustration to life covering a range of different animation methods to create a music based sting.
This class is for those of you who are new to After Effects, so we’ll be covering a lot of the basics. However, a good understanding of Illustrator or Photoshop will be useful as a lot of the tools and termonology crosses over into After Effects.
You’ll create a 10-15 second animation that captures the spirit, feel, and excitement of your favorite song, album, record label…you get the idea. I’ve created a simple piece to take you through key skills in After Effects. You will need Adobe After Effects and Illustrator. Trial versions are avalible on the Adobe website.
Class Breakdown:
*A tour of the interface – How to set up your project and composition and importing assets from outside of after effects
*Layer Types An overview of different layer types.
*Introduction to Animation – Covering the basics of animating the transform properties. Explaining the use of pre-composing and animating within these. How to animate masks and when to use them. Lastly a quick run through of how to export your video so you can share your work so far.
*Introduction to shape layers and animating paths – How to convert Illustrator files to After effects shape layers and how to animate paths.
*Working in 3D space: We’ll be covering the basics of the 3D capabilities within After Effects, This isn’t true 3D animation but I’ll be covering tricks such as transforming an object to appear to change to a different perspective.
*We’ll also look into basic text animation and finally some finishing touches to polish your animation.
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