Animation is possibly the most important technique in After Effects, and will be present at every point in your motion design or compositing journey.

In this hour-long class I will teach you the foundation of animation in After Effects as we create and animate a bouncing ball scene.

Among other techniques, this class will cover:

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  Creating and Using Shape Layers

  
  


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  Animating Paths with the Pen Tool

  
  


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  Text Animation

  
  


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  Easing with the Graph Editor

  
  


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  Using Adobe Color Themes for Color Pallettes

  
  


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  Timing Interactions between objects

  
  


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  Using 'Trim Paths' to Create Trails

  
  


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  Creating a GIF of the animation in Media Encoder

  
  

This class is for complete beginners to intermediate users of After Effects and I’ll be showing you important shortcuts I’ve learned over the years as a motion designer and 3D artist.

And most importantly, all of these animation principles can be applied to anything you want to do in After Effects going forward.