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After Effects Essentials: Complete VFX and Motion GFX Guide (Udemy.com)

Your complete guide to create amazing Visual Effects and Motion Graphics using Adobe After Effects CC 2017.

Created by: Ruan Lotter

Last updated August 2017

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What you will learn

  • Create awesome visual effects and motion graphics using Adobe After Effects
  • More advanced After Effects techniques

How it compares

Against the other 118 rated Udemy courses in Adobe After Effects on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 18% of them
  • Reviews2,025#7 of 119 by number of reviews
  • Length2.6 hoursshorter than 50% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2017earlier than 87% of them

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Course Description

Adobe After Effects Essentials: Complete VFX and Motion Graphics Guide

Are you interested in creating your own amazing Visual Effects and Motion Graphics? Look no further! In this 100% FREE course you will learn all the basics (and some more) of Adobe After Effects CC 2017. You will learn how to do VFX and Motion Graphics using many of the tools in Adobe After Effects. Over 2.5 hours of video content in this course - and yes - it's 100% FREE and will always be free! I have also included 3 bonus tutorials on Mocha Pro! Yup all this for free! :)

Please remember to rate this course as it really helps me a lot.

Over 2 hours and 30 minutes of 100% FREE Adobe After Effects Tutorial Videos!

This course consists of 30 After Effects Tutorials!

==What you will learn==

Adobe After Effects CC 2017

  • How To Create A Cardboard Cutout Animation
  • How To Adjust Exposure On A Face
  • Creating Realistic Camera Shake
  • How To Create A 3D Grid Effect
  • Creating Cool Title Reveals
  • Doing A Crash Zoom Effect
  • Creating The Captain America Intro Animation
  • How To Do Professional End Credits
  • How To Use Mattes In After Effects
  • How To Create Your Own 2D South Park Style Animation
  • How To Create An Easy Lip Syncing Rig
  • LUTS and CG
  • Tracking Outside The Frame
  • Create Audio Waveforms On Text
  • How To Change The Color Of Something In Your Scene
  • Compositing Tips And Tricks
  • Create A Cool Text Stroke Animation
  • How To Create A Pixelated Background Effect
  • How To Remove Anything From Your Shot
  • How To Use The Rotobrush
  • How To Do A Selective Color Effect
  • Creating A Phone Text Message Popup Effect
  • Tracking Masks In After Effects
  • How To Create A Video From A 360 Degree Photo
  • Doing A Video To Newspaper Effect
  • How To Do A Whip Pan Effect
  • How To Create Awesome Light Sabers Using The Free Saber Plugin
  • Bonus Content - Rotoscoping With Mocha
  • Bonus Content - Remove Tattoo Using Mocha Pro
  • Bonus Content - Remove Tracking Markers Using Mocha Pro

***Please remember to rate this course once you have completed it.***

Thanks for watching!

Kind regards,
Ruan Lotter

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Instructor Details

Ruan Lotter

Ruan Lotter is a VFX & 3D Artist, Online Teacher, Music Producer and Author from Cape Town, South Africa. He has worked on many short films and TV commercials for brands such as Hasbro, Lipton, RB, Ryobi and HP doing mostly camera tracking, general 3D work and compositing.

It all started in 1994 when he discovered 3dsmax for DOS! Back then it was called "3D Studio" and that changed everything... A few years later, 3dsmax for Windows was released and the world of online tutorials was born. Ruan instantly started binge watching online tutorials on a website called "3D Buzz" and dove deep into the world of 3D. Over the years he used many different VFX related software such as Adobe After Effects, Maya, Cinema4d, Modo, PFTrack, Boujou and Nuke to name a few and he fell in love with the world of Visual Effects and YouTube became his university of choice.

At the beginning of 2020, after many years of using Maya, he found Blender which quickly became his go-to application for anything 3D or VFX related. In mid 2022 he published his first book "Taking Blender to the Next Level" which is available on Amazon.

He currently works as a VFX Artist & 3D Generalist at Accenture, doing mostly 3D and VFX work on TV and Web content for well known brands.

He also runs a YouTube channel called TunnelvizionTV where he teaches VFX and Motion Graphics using a variety of applications.

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Reviews

4.3

2,025 ratings on Udemy

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By Pierre de Witt on 5/21/2021

I believe that this course wasn't made for Udemy, rather, I get the impression it's a collection of YouTube videos (the instructor mentions the description area below YT videos). There are no sections at all, everything is pooled together and the lessons don't follow any kind of outline. The instructor is very knowledgeable and has a lot of experience using the application but it's a shame that most of the videos are done in After Effects CS6 and the course itself wasn't updated in almost 4 years. Also, the footage is in 720p.

By Haider on 4/19/2020

It was really a great tutorial, thank you for creating this. I would like to add two things - one is at some point I felt a little bit faster though I slowed down the speed of the video and the other is the lack of resources. Again this was an absolutely amazing tutorial I ever came across. Thanks once again !

By Mariham Magdy Ahmed on 3/16/2020

This is the second Aftereffects course I have take on Udemy its very creative course i really learn a lot and it include a lot of information and details I really enjoyed the course it was exactly what I needed i Just finished this course and I am really happy with the course's content. I learned a lot from this online course Great job Ruan

By Dewayne McAllister on 2/26/2020

honestly, i feel like in the beginning, things were moving a bit fast, and there wasn't much explanation of the lessons and steps. but as things progressed, the tutorials became more informative. i just with there had been deeper explanation of what a certain effect does, or a property within a layer. but overall, i did learn quite a bit. i enjoyed this set

By John Howe on 4/15/2019

I was not sure about the quick fire short lecture format that this course uses but having gone through all the lectures, it seems to work. It is sometimes nice to learn what an application can do more than how it can be done. This course seems to do both whilst keeping things light and easy to understand. If, like me, you are a complete beginner to After Effects, have a look at this course before any other.

By Daria Afanaseva on 10/24/2018

1r día. Me han encantado las clases tan especificas sobre efectos y trucos. Después de pasar todo el curso: Este curso es una pasada. Lo recomiendo a la gente que ya tienen un poco de experiencia con el AE. La mayoría de las clases contenían info completamente nueva para mí. ¡¡¡Además las clases de BONUS es la leche!!! ¡Gracias Ruan por comprartir tu experiencia! Cuando voy a adquirir un curso de AE, sus cursos serán la primera opción

By Rahul Mallapureddi on 5/29/2018

Great course! It's wonderful to learn After Effects with a better explanation. Also, various effects on nice examples clear your knowledge and increase your interests to learn very fast.The Instructor of the course fulfilled the concept of working with the basics of the After Effect program. Thank you for your efforts in educating the beginner and the politicians in detail.Thanks..

By Florina - Daiana Lates on 3/20/2018

At one point, in the Captain America video the sound was not in sync anymore so it became very hard to follow. Also, there are some steps that he skips over to get to the final point and it would've been nice to see how he got, for example, to the split screen with before and after. He does not explain why he selects certain features so I know how to make the steps but I don't know why I am doing it, this making harder for me to be able to know what to use when I want to do something on my own.

By Charlize Matthee on 1/30/2018

I enjoy how well Ruan has made the first tutorial... extremely easy to follow. It just needs downloadable resources to complete the tutorials with the trainer. I have now completed 13 lessons, and all are very well put together. There are a few things about the coding part of functions that isn't explained, but perhaps that is in a beginners course. For example, when using the slider on the lip syncing rig Ruan uses the coding type language. Perhaps that can also be covered in a lesson. Where can I get the basic background to that.

By Geoff Duke on 11/28/2017

It's a brilliant course. I'll be using it over and over again as a reference tool. I'm very grateful. I would have given it a full five stars but at times the narration goes out of sink with the video (eg lesson 7) and at times the explanations can be a little quick. Great content though and very helpful and actually a lot better than some of the paid courses that are available. Great Work.

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