After Effects for Beginners Complete Intro to After Effects (Udemy.com)
Complete Intro to After Effects - Learn After Effects CC typography and animation
Created by: Andrew Pach
Last updated November 2025
What you will learn
- Get curious about After Effects and hungry to learn more
- Improve the quality of Your videos by adding animations
- Establish a healthy understanding of motion graphics
- Use After Effects fluently and understand advanced tutorials
- Transition from a graphic designer to a graphic design & motion artist
How it compares
Against the other 118 rated Udemy courses in Adobe After Effects on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 67% of them
- Reviews554#23 of 119 by number of reviews
- Length6.9 hourslonger than 78% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2025more recently than 84% of them
Course Description
This course will teach you all neccesary & most used After Effects tools, a proper workflow, show you real-life examples of animating and various tricks in the program. Watch the above promo video for detailed explanation. This is your one-stop guidance & shortcut to professional motion graphic design.
- Project files included, free to use in your own work
- The [WORKSHOP] section will make sure you stay current and up-to-date with new design trends as I will be adding my tutorials there
In this course I want to teach you everything you need to know to start working in After Effects and becomming a motion graphic artist. We will start with the program interface, going on with keyframing and later creating our first animations. This will be a basic course making a great intro to the motion design world. It doesn't matter if you use After Effects CS6 or After Effects CC (we work on CC 2015, but informations about both are covered).
You don't have to work for Warner Bros right away, but with help of this After Effects course you will be able to prepare simple animations to spice up Your YouTube channel, videos, land more work with clients by expanding your skillset, get creative with your 2D content, be confident that you can use Photoshop / Illustrator files and create animations out of them, produce seamless animations and more.
Some of the things that will be covered during the course:
- Motion Graphics basics
- After Effects program layout and basics
- Working with different types of layers
- Creating our first few animations
- Simple kinetic typography to use
- Real-life examples of lower thirds, logo animations & more
- Cross-usage between Photoshop / Illustrator
- How to add effects to our compositions
- Precomposing, matting, exporting, rendering
- Tons of often used tricks and keyboard shortcuts
- ...the list goes on.
Knowing After Effects is a lucrative skill to have which is in demand especially in 2015 / 2016 and ongoing years where video will grow as the most published type of content across the web.
So why & for what is After Effects used actually:
- Improve video quality,
- Spice up videos with smooth animations,
- Industry standard for animating (TV Shows, News, Video content),
- Enhancing Youtube channels content,
- ...the list is endless.
This course will kickstart your After Effects journey and you will realize that After Effects is and will be one of the most important tools on the market regarding animation & video editing. I want help you achieve your creative goals, wether it's enhancing your Youtube channel, promoting your business or starting your mograph (motion graphics design) career.
So what are you waiting for...Enroll Now!
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
554 Reviews
Andrew Pach
Hi! My name is Andrzej Pach (but Andrew is easier to say ^^) and I spend my daily time with graphic design, presentations, motion & animation, typography, video editing, and online teaching. Most of my work is done in Adobe After Effects & Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 / 2021 / 365 and Camtasia so naturally, this is the software I want to teach about and share my experience with. I have completed more than 5000 graphic projects for clients, mostly including video animations like intros, outros, and transitions for various YouTube channels & marketers. On Fiverr alone (a freelancing website), I have more than 3500 reviews and 4k+ finished jobs. I would like to share with you the knowledge that I was able to "stack up" during the process. I am always willing to help people out by enhancing their brands and projects.
Who am I?
I'm born in 1989, live in a small village in Poland, and graduated from my University in July 2014. A few years back, when I tried to find my "place" after getting hired to prepare a website, flyer, and business card for a local business in my area, I finally "felt it". Since then (2011) I have expanded my skills in this area by completing various graphic, website, and design-related projects. Places like the Warrior Forum, freelancing websites, and graphic contests across the web caught my interest and never let me go. I run my own company since April 2015.
More courses by Andrew Pach
Powerpoint 2019 2021 365 - Master powerpoint presentation
4.6 (24,935 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 10.3h
$15.99
PowerPoint for Beginners - Program & Animation Basics FREE (2025)
4.5 (10,988 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 1.3h
Free
PowerPoint Masterclass - Presentation Design & Animation (2026)
4.7 (7,539 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 10.3h
$14.99
PowerPoint Slide Design - Casual Slides Presentation (2025)
4.7 (6,207 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 42 mins
Free
Powerpoint Presentation - design powerpoint slides (2025)
4.4 (5,349 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 48 mins
Free
Microsoft PowerPoint for 2026 - 3 Hour Crash Course!
4.7 (4,018 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 2.9h
$11.99
More Adobe After Effects courses
Motion Design & Animation Principles in Adobe After Effects (2025)
4.8 (1,594 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 5.8h
$99.99
Futuristic HUD Motion Graphics in After Effects (2018)
4.7 (664 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 1.5h
$69.99
Course Design - How to Create Impressive Text Animations (2017)
4.7 (207 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 2.7h
$74.99
After Effects Masterclass: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners (2020)
4.7 (198 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 9h
$74.99
Reviews
By Anne Macfarlane on 12/4/2020
This is generally a good course. The tutor is knowledgeable and the course is good for beginners. The first five sections are pretty good indeed. But towards the end of the course the tutor rushes through some of the later modules both in his delivery of the spoken word and the speed of covering the steps needed to complete the task. This is unhelpful. If you don't want to have to replay the video a bunch of times you might look at the transcript to follow along but this is absolutely woeful. It looks like the transcript was done using poor quality speech recognition - here are some examples of what I mean "I set the turkey frame rate 10 seconds" or "since I will not meet my background again". The transcript of this course is arguably a very important element of the course and needs to be checked for accuracy please.
By Michal M on 1/9/2020
Bardzo dobry kurs, mogę go z czystym sumieniem polecić wszystkim początkującym jak i takim którzy mają już jakieś pojęcie o pracy w programie. Tak było w moim przypadku. Kurs pomógł mi wyeliminować wiele błędów, które popełniałem i dał wiele pomysłów jak ułatwiać sobie pracę. Daję 4,5 gwiazdki zamiast 5 ponieważ spodziewałem się, że więcej miejsca będzie poświęcone samym "efektom". Niemniej i tak jestem bardzo zadowolony, pozdrawiam autora!
By Jakub Postawa on 1/3/2020
I recently started actually learning After Effects and I must say I was pretty overwhelmed by the program, even though it wasn't my first time using it. This course helped me be more comfortable with the workspace and even though I'm nowhere near being fluent with it, I feel like I could actually do some work in it, which is a huge step forward. I really enjoyed the course overall. The topics were very well explained and I didn't feel lost at any moment. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and I hope to take part in some of your other courses in the future.
By Chanel Long on 12/7/2016
Great course! Well explained and simplified. Perfect amount of repetitiveness for you to gain the knowledge but also understanding. A lot of pausing in the exercises but that's expected and there's some interesting English (but it's adds a little extra entertainment). He's a great teacher! I would recommend this to any beginner.
By Rafael Beini on 11/30/2016
Exceptionally high quality course. If you are a beginner / know your way a bit around in After Effects this is the right course for you. The teacher is patient, never blabs about unnecessary things and is always straight to the point. He speaks clearly and the audio and video quality is very high, recommended for any aspiring motion graphics artist!
By Kanokorn Photinon on 7/15/2016
Nigel went above and beyond in teaching this course. He is very enthusiastic. He provided all materials that are required for every version of the software! He also boosted students' morale along the way so the beginner like me was not too overwhelmed and be discouraged which is highly appreciated. He also selflessly shared his knowledge, trick and tips with us.
By Anonymized User on 5/31/2016
This course covered everything I needed to learn about AE with a very knowledgable instructor and plenty of lessons to flex new knowledge with. I now have a very good base to launch from and the ability to take on advanced courses with ease. I also have quite a few projects to look back on that remind me of everything I studied throughout the course. I would definitely recommend taking this course if you've never opened AE before and want proficiency and practical knowledge to take with you in creating your own video effects!
By Bulk on 5/25/2016
Excellent course. Well done. He covers a lot in this fast paced course which makes it well worth your investment. Don't worry about the fast pace, you can always go back to a section and pause and play your way through to better learn a specific technique. He explains what he is doing on every move he makes and explains why or why not to do certain things. I'm very impressed. When I first opened After Effects I had no clue. Now after a few short days of watching this course I'm rockin' it.
By Justyn on 4/1/2016
There is a lot of content to absorb here. Andrzej breaks it down well and even though there might be a little rewinding to make sure you don't miss anything you do start to get a basis to build your After Effects knowledge. What I will say I wish there was, was more pieces where there were little projects for you to do. For example when he created the kinetic typography video if we also had to create our own. This would help reinforce the principles he is trying to teach us. Of course this is also hard to do while learning it at the same time so this can be at the end of a section to cement what you learned in that section.
By Kevin Partner on 2/4/2016
I enjoyed the presentation style and Andrzej is a good presenter and host. A long time is spent going through the basics of the interface and basic functions of AE - I would have preferred it if we had got stuck into some simple projects earlier and learned as we went, but that's a minor quibble. My only other criticism is that there's very little here about video and most of my projects will involve importing video and using after effects to finish them off. There's also nothing about particles but I appreciate there's a limit to what can be included in a beginners course. Overall, I enjoyed it - this is one of the first Udemy courses I've completed 100% which is the biggest recommendation I can give - the Lower Third tutorial was worth the price of the course on its own
Quality Score
No CourseDuck member has rated this course yet. Taken it? Give each part a thumbs up or down.
Overall Score : 92 / 100












