Adobe After Effects: Flat Animation Buildup

Requirements

• students need no After Effects experience but it will help if they take the previous two Dive into After Effects courses (Learn the Basics, Animating with Keyframes)

This is the third part in my 3-part Dive Into After Effects series. Check out parts 1 & 2 if you haven’t already done so. I created this series to make learning how to use After Effects as easy as possible.

You learn by doing.

In the Dive Into After Effects series, you’ll follow along and work on your own project while learning. In this course, we’ll create our own flat animation buildup – a popular style of animations you see in commercials, television shows, and movies today.

What makes me qualified to teach you?

My name is Phil. I am a professional motion graphics artist and video creator. Plus, I’m the creator of some of the world’s most popular After Effects courses – with over 150,000 students and thousands of 5-star reviews like these ones from this course:

I really enjoyed this course! I’m fairly new to After Effects (minus some light video editing), but I felt like I learned a lot. – Katherine Vargas

Very easy to follow, at this time I did the course with the material given from author, and was simple and got a great animation with AE! – Renato Nakazima

Phill made what is simple… look simple. Great course, great support, easy to follow, I’m really happy with it. – Bartolomeu Jacq

My Promise to You

I’ll be here for you every step of the way. If you have any questions about the course content or anything related to this topic, you can always post a question in the course or send me a direct message.

I want to make this the best course on learning After Effects for beginners. So if there is any way I can improve this course, just tell me and I’ll make it happen.

What’s this course all about?

In this 45-minute course, you’ll learn how to beautifully introduce objects in your After Effects projects. Knowing how to animate the small details of your objects will dramatically improve your After Effects skills. Follow me as I animate the build-up of a polaroid camera graphic.

This class is perfect for video creators, designers, and everyone who wants to learn After Effects in an non-intimidating way. If you’re just starting out, we recommend taking the Dive into After Effects: Understanding the Basics & Working with Keyframes courses first. By the end of this class, you’ll know how to seamlessly animate object buildups for your own video projects.

Who this course is for:

• anyone that wants to learn how to make fun motion graphics videos
• anyone with no knowledge or very limited knowledge of After Effects
• anyone that knows Adobe Illustrator and wants to add motion to their designs

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What you’ll learn

• design an object in Adobe Illustrator
• prepare designs in Adobe Illustrator for animating in After Effects
• animate with the flat buildup style
• export from After Effects