Adobe After Effects CC: Create a space scene (Udemy.com)

Learn all the tips and tricks to create an animated visual effects scene that is out of this world!

( 2 Reviews )

Created by: Jonathon Parker

Produced in 2018

What you will learn

After taking this course students will be able to create surreal space scapes in Adobe After Effects
After taking this course student will be able to generate and animate complex scenes
After taking this course students will be able to develop further ideas on where they can use the skills they have learnt

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Course Description

Requirements
In order to take this course you will need the following:

-A computer or Mac
-A working copy of Adobe After Effects (You can download a 7 day trial from the Adobe Website)
-An attitude to learn the techniques to create and animate an environment that is out of this world!

After receiving excellent feedback and five star ratings from my Udemy courses and YouTube Channel, I have decided to widen my audience and reach out to some more of you guys on Udemy. In doing so I have come up with a crazy cool course where I will demonstrate loads of techniques to you guys in assembling a space environment based off the shot of the Planet Morag from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol1! This course is built around helping budding visual Effects artists build up their skills in digital compositing and matte painting.
Below is some student feedback that I have received on my Udemy courses:
I've needed a course like this! My animations have been looking too rigid but looking at some of the lessons I'm so excited for the outcome! I'm learning fast but with time to practice all the skills I've learnt with the assignments. Thank for creating this! Timothy Stone (UDEMY)
So looking forward to this course after watching your YouTube tutorials! Good value with so many resources! Josh Bright (UDEMY)
Really easy to understand. Joe Lee (UDEMY)
Thanks for these amazing Tutorials, great work as always! Never stop posting cause these are all amazing help for beginners like myself! Danny M (YOUTUBE)
Course Description
Adobe After Effects CC: Create a space scene is built around helping Adobe After Effects users and students learn the skills needed to for Digital Matte Painting and Digital compositing. There are many different uses for After Effects which can be covered but this course is focused primarily on Compositing multiple assets together to create a photo-realistic environment.
There are many different effects that I teach you through this course, one of the most interesting is where we will be creating our own Hi-Pass filter to add depth and dimension to the planet surface and clouds!
As I come from a teaching background (teaching visual effects and motion graphics is my day job) I believe in equipping students with the skills needed and then letting student put their skills to the test, so as I say in some of the final videos, once you have created your scene, feel free to share your work with me in the question room or on social media and then I can provide feedback and help you further! (Details of Creative Tap's social media can be found in my profile).
This course covers the following areas:
-Intro
-Creating the Planet surface
-Creating the Planet Clouds
-Compositing an atmosphere and atmospheric Haze
-Compositing BG elements into our scene
-Adding and animating a lens flare and a camera move
-Creating and animating Guardians of the Galaxy style text
-Hi-Pass Filter creation
-Colour adjustment and matching techniques
-Outro

This course comes with a PDF Handout uploaded a with various lessons along the way which links you guys to where you can get the project files from so please feel free to download these.
If you have signed up to this course I strongly advise you to use the Q+A board if needed and you can also tweet any feedback to me via my twitter, which is found on my profile. It would also be useful if you could leave a review/rating on the course. These are just some ways that I can get feedback of you to further improve my courses in the future!
Main Key Points
-Adobe After Effects Environment Design
-Advanced use of Compositiong
-Creating a futuristic realistic environment
-PDF handout
Target Audience
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to learn how to create 'out of this world' photo-realistic environments in Adobe After Effects!
-After taking this course student will be able to generate and animate complex scenes
-After taking this course students will be able to create surreal space scapes in Adobe After Effects
-After taking this course students will be able to develop further ideas on where they can use the skills they have learnt

-After taking this course students will be able to create stunning visual effects shots

I really hope you enjoy this free course and get a lot of valuable information from it.

Who this course is for:

Students who want to expand their digital environment skill should take this course
Students who want to create stunning visual effects should take this course

Time: 1.5h

Instructor Details

Jonathon Parker

5.0 Rating
2 Reviews

My name is Jonathon Parker, a Motion Graphics and Visual Effects lecturer from the UK.

Firstly, a little background about me! I have always been the creative type and always strive to improve and push my creative skills further and further.

As stated above I am already teaching in the UK as a Motion Graphics and VFX lecturer The difference with my courses will be the fact that they come from an educator, not someone doing this just in their spare time! All my courses focus on teaching and assessment. I will teach you a few skills and then set you an assignment to check that those skills have been learnt. I also see the importance of generating handouts and resources for the student, so I have included these in my courses also!

I have a First-Class BA (HONS) in Visual Effects and motion graphics, and also a Masters in Animation. After working a few years in industry, I would occasionally guest lecture at the college I used to attend. After doing this I decided to go into teaching full time where I achieved my teaching qualification.

Now that I am here on Udemy I hope to further spread my extensive knowledge through my teaching practice! Check out the social media links on my profile and get involved!

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By Anonymized User

The course is really thorough. The pace, the thoughtfullness with regard to the materials and the workflow are perfect. One really gets to know the innards of a beast like After Effects and I really like the result as well. One can feel the tutor is passionate about it. That only leaves us trying to find a matching passion in this program.

By Brian Little

Overall a really great course. I learned some new tricks and thought the whole lesson was really fun! My only critiques are that short cut keys should either be repeated or put up on screen. This helps me to remember them better over time. The project files within the project, could've been more organized too. i.e. create an "assets" folder etc.

Describe the things you're doing more. I might know what you're doing, but it's better for "following along" with you. So I have both audio and visual input. Then there's less chance of confusion.

It's always helpful to see a professionals work flow! Thanks so much for your time and efforts!! Well worth my money! Cheers!