After Effects Apprentice 15: Final Project

This course pulls together the skills you’ve been learning in the previous After Effects Apprentice installments to create a real-world video promo. Trish leads you through building the artwork and components used in the final piece, and then Chris shows how to assemble these precompositions into a 3D world, timed to music. Along the way, Trish and Chris also share their thoughts as they design a video project, including unifying the overall look and handling change requests from clients.

Introduction
1m 39s

Welcome
1m 39s

1. The Floor
17m 38s

Building the grid floor
8m 48s

Creating a radar sweep
5m 13s

Adding lightning
3m 37s

2. The Video Wall
14m 18s

Building the video panel
4m 34s

Using the Block Dissolve effect
3m 52s

Stylizing the footage
2m 15s

Duplicating precomps
3m 37s

3. The Dial
21m 22s

Importing Illustrator files
5m 47s

Working with paths and masks
4m 54s

Animating the Stroke effect
4m 20s

Tinting the event names
2m 42s

Wiggling the rings
3m 39s

4. Creating the Main Composition
33m 35s

Starting a new composition
1m 48s

Spotting music
5m 55s

Building the floor
5m 27s

Adding a video panel
3m 40s

Creating a reflection
7m 47s

Adding the dial
4m 7s

Arranging the frame
4m 51s

5. The Camera Move
9m 22s

Setting up the final pose
4m 28s

Keyframing the camera
4m 54s

6. Creating a Title
14m 39s

Adding a text layer
5m 16s

Using text animation presets
3m 16s

Customizing the preset
6m 7s

7. Lighting and Shadows
6m 56s

Adding a Spot light
3m 41s

Casting shadows
3m 15s

8. Further Polish
12m 8s

Improving consistency
2m 44s

Adding a 2D background
4m 29s

Tying up loose ends
4m 55s

9. Finishing the Comps
20m 38s

Overview of Main Comp 2
3m 32s

Grouping layers
4m 39s

Animating the swivel
9m 2s

Assembling the final comp
3m 25s

10. Client Changes
25m 57s

Adding a transition
7m 0s

Keyframing the camera
3m 21s

Adding a filmic glow
4m 0s

Increasing the motion blur
4m 2s

Retiming a video source
7m 34s

11. Render Strategies
13m 4s

Exploring render settings
2m 48s

Outputting for archiving
1m 15s

Outputting anamorphic widescreen DV
1m 57s

Creating a 4:3 center-cut version
2m 31s

Outputting for web
2m 23s

Exploring components for editors
2m 10s

12. Bonus: Creating the Ring inside After Effects
12m 49s

Creating the inner ring
5m 19s

Creating the outer ring
3m 9s

Creating the text ring
4m 21s