Adobe After Effects CS4: Motion and Sculpting

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Class Date and Time	Price Volume Discounts Students Discounts 2 5% 3-4 10% 5 or more 15% GSA Price: $1,125.75	Register
Apr 5 - 7, 2010 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET	$1,185.00 or 3 vouchers	Register
May 3 - 5, 2010 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET	$1,185.00 or 3 vouchers	Register
Jun 1 - 3, 2010 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET	$1,185.00 or 3 vouchers	Register

Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Learn to use the Paint and Clone.
• Learn to use the Puppet Tool, Brainstorm, Shape Layers.
• Learn to create expressions and timing.
• Learn to use tracking and stabilizing tools.
• Learn to work in 3D.

Class Outline

1. Paint and Clone
   1. Basic painting
   2. Paint Channels
   3. Paint Blending Modes
   4. Animating strokes
   5. Creating organic textures
   6. Tablet settings
   7. Cloning
   8. Transforming strokes
   9. Vector Paint overview
   10. Wiggle control
   11. Onionskin mode
   12. Playback modes
2. CS4 Features: Puppet Tool, Brainstorm, Shape Layers
   1. Using Brainstorm
   2. Brainstorm with keyframes
   3. Puppet Pin tool
   4. Animating Puppet pins
   5. Puppet overlap tool
   6. Recording puppet animation
   7. Puppet starch tool
   8. Shape layers
   9. Multiple shapes
   10. Even-odd fill
   11. Shape effects
   12. Shape repeater
   13. Compound paths
   14. Shape gradients
   15. Shape pen paths
   16. Advanced strokes
   17. Animating a stroke
3. Expressions/Time Games
   1. Using the pick whip to create an expression
   2. Stabilizing shadows
   3. Matching value ranges
   4. Looping keyframes
   5. Wiggle expressions
   6. Expression controllers
   7. Master controller
   8. Converting sound to keyframes
   9. Frame blending/Pixel Motion
   10. Stop motion tricks
   11. Preserve Frame Rate
   12. Freeze frames
   13. Time Remapping
4. Tracking/Stabilizing
   1. Creating track points
   2. Tracker options
   3. Stabilization
   4. Compensation for stabilized footage
   5. Fixing bad tracks
   6. Tracking interlaced footage
   7. Motion tracking
   8. Applying a motion track
   9. Radio Waves effect
   10. Applying tracks to effect points
   11. Perspective corner pin tracking
   12. Bezier Warp effect
   13. Stabilizing position, orientation and scale
   14. Interpolating obscured tracks
   15. Working with high-definition footage
   16. Keylight effect
   17. Improving keyed composites
   18. Garbage mattes
5. Putting it into 3D Space
   1. Enabling layers for 3D
   2. Moving layers in 3D space
   3. Layer stacking in 3D
   4. 3D rotation and orientation
   5. Multi-planing effects
   6. 3D motion paths
   7. Multiple views
   8. Camera settings
   9. Customizing 3D views
   10. Camera track and orbit tools
   11. Moving and animating cameras
   12. Layer and camera
   13. Auto-orientation
   14. 3D lights
   15. Vignettes
   16. Animating lights
   17. Casting shadows
   18. OpenGL and Fast Previews
   19. Adding dimension to stills
   20. Editing stills for 3D

Class Materials

All students receive a course manual or book and all the class examples.

Students in private onsite classes will also receive:

• After Effects Apprentice (DV Expert Series)
• Technical Reference Library

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• Solid grounding in basic After Effects, including: keyframing, masks, mattes, transparency, applying effects, working with layers, importing, exporting, basic type

Technical Requirements

Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.

• Course technical requirements and setup instructions.