Motion Tricks is a medium to advanced After Effects course focused on techniques that will elevate the complexity of your animations. If you know your way around AE but want to take your work to the next level, this course is for you.
Motion Tricks is an After Effects course focused on advanced techniques that will boost the quality of your animations. Over this course, you will learn how to transform your designs into solid drawings and bring that 3D look into your animations. You’ll also learn the importance of following arcs in your animations to achieve smooth and organic movements.
You’ll have many opportunities to practice everything you learn in different scenarios. From single geometric elements to advanced character animation, you’ll have fun working on exercises with a growing level of complexity.
This course requires a basic knowledge of After Effects, so it’s perfect for animators and motion designers that know their way around the software but need that extra push to give more flavor to their animations.
You might think that most of the amazing animations you see on your feed are created using advanced techniques. But the truth is that any animation can be broken down into a few basic actions. In this course we will explore how some simple tricks, when added to each other, can drastically increase the quality of your animations.
Emanuele is well known in the community for his particular style of classy movements, catchy character animation and unexpected transitions. Once we explore some cool animation tricks in the first part of this course, we will study how to apply them to different situations, increasing the complexity with every step.
What makes the difference between a good animation and a loop you just can’t take your eyes off? We will spend some time going through some sweet animations that conquered the Internet and we will try to identify some of the traits they share, applying those same principles to our animations.
9 lectures / 7h+
In our first lesson, you’ll learn how to create gradients
and simulate a light system within AE to give
more depth to your designs.
In this second lesson, you’ll continue working on your visuals
and learn how to create solid shapes, such as spheres, cubes,
or cylinders, and build an authentic 3D look inside AE.
In this chapter, you’ll put your knowledge to the test and use what you learned so far to create and animate a little character. You’ll familiarize yourself in animating 3D shapes while also working on the personality of the character.
In this lesson, you’ll learn the importance of arcs within animation and how to guide your elements through them to reach organic movements and smoother actions.
In chapter 5, you’ll combine using gradients and solid drawing with arcs to build a smooth 3D looking animation within AE. You’ll also add more complexity to the geometric designs by using transparency.
In this lesson, you’ll apply everything you’ve learned so far into building and animating a simple character. This exercise will allow you to start building complexity in your animations by adding gradients and solid drawing to help improve your character.
In these final chapters, you’ll bring all of your knowledge together to create and animate an advanced character. You’ll start by building the head and body of your character, before moving on to the arms and legs, in order to create a run cycle with a frontward perspective.
In this part of the course, we will examine how
the promo video was made.
You can call it Colombo Tools – an exclusive set of tools that will transfer all techniques from the Emanuele Colombo workflow. You will achieve the same results In just one click.
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