Course curriculum
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Exercise Files
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Exercise Files: Starting from scratch
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Finished Reference Exercise Files
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Lesson 1: Stylize and Animate a Newspaper Page
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Part 1 | Getting started: File management, preferences and keyboard shortcuts
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Part 2 | Preparing files for import into After Effects and Photoshop layer management
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Part 3 | Build a newspaper composite, and generate a large background from a small image
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Part 4 | Stylizing with Effects, masking layers and camera animation
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Lesson 2: Create a Pullquote Animation
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Part 1 | Making selections with channels, setting Brush preferences & working with the Clone Stamp tool
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Part 2 | Creating a clean background and optimizing images through resizing
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Part 3 | Importing layered photoshop documents as compositions and using Pre-compose
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Part 4 | Understanding Clone Stamp options
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Part 5 | Adding and animating Effects, efficient keyframing and smoothing animation using Easy Ease
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Lesson 3: Create a Deep Paper Animation
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Part 1 | Intro to selection tools and layer masks
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Part 2 | Refine selections with Select and Mask, and recreate missing areas of an image
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Part 3 | Reinforcing selection and retouching techniques to separate and prepare the last person before animation
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Part 4 | Animating the scene with a one node camera, layer masks, parenting, and precomposing in After Effects
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Lesson 4: Animate and Stylize a Single Image on Multiple Planes
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Part 1 | Making and refining selections with the Magnetic Lasso tool and the Pen tool
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Part 2 | Recreating missing parts of an image with the Clone Stamp and Spot Healing Brush tools
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Part 3 | Fix cutouts between layers, expand selections, and optimizing layers for the parallax effect
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Part 4 | Optimize layer sizes for animation, using Null Objects for control, animate a 2-Node Camera & applying Puppet Pin
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Part 5 | Generate curtains with the Cell Pattern, adding Noise and Lens Flare to stylize animation
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Lesson 5: Build an Animated and Stylized Scene
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Part 1 | Applied selections, using the Pen tool, Select and Mask, shrinking masks, and optimizing Psds for animation in After Effects
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Part 2 | Content Aware Fill refinement and making final changes between Photoshop and After Effects files and projects
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Part 3 | Adjust animation Motion Paths, stylize with Glow and Tritone effects, and fine tune appearances with lights & light options
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Create a newspaper-style motion graphic by stylizing photos and animating camera moves across newspaper pages.

Create a ‘Pullquote’, a motion graphic where some text is isolated and pulled out of the background as the background blurs.

Create depth and interest in a newspaper animation.

Create depth and interest within a single image using multi-plane techniques, puppet pins, lens flares, and a generated background.

Build a complete animated stylized multi-plane scene. From compositing through final animation, learn new techniques as we build on the knowledge we've learned throughout the course.

Instructor

Ian Robinson