After Effects Masterclass: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners (Udemy.com)
Learn how to use the industry standard motion graphics, animation and visual effects software with this course
Created by: Ozgur Gorgun
Last updated December 2020
What you will learn
- Create eye-catching motion graphics, animations and visual effects
- Text animation
- Motion graphics
- Animating infographics
- Visual Effects
- 2D and 3D animation
- At the end of each chapter, you will have a practical task to complete.
Course Description
After Effects is the software professionals use to create amazing, sometimes dazzling motion graphics. It's used in a vast number of industries, including TV, web and film.
In this course, we will learn how the foundations of this versatile application work. We will start from scratch, with a blank project and start building our own animations. We will also cover the close integration between After Effects, Photoshop, Cinema 4D and Illustrator.
With this hands-on training course, you will learn all the tips and tricks that the professional designers use to create eye-catching motion graphics.
You will master keyframes and become an expert in using the dreaded graph editor. You will also learn how to use After Effects to create 3D compositions.
This masterclass is designed for complete beginners, but even if you are a seasoned After Effects user, we promise you will learn countless tricks that you wish you knew before! You will learn about speeding up your workflow, fixing shaky footage, effects and text animation.
After Effects offers a number of built-in presets when it comes to animating. As well as exploring these presets, we will be learning how to create our own custom presets and animations.
You will also learn how motion tracking works by attaching a piece of graphic or text to a live action video and mask it to make it believable.
With 7 different class projects to complete, you will leave this course feeling confident to tackle any animation challenge that comes your way!
If you are ready to step into the world of animated graphics and visual effects, let's get started.
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
198 Reviews
Ozgur Gorgun
Hello, I'm Ozgur from Digidemy. I'm an award winning filmmaker, photographer and motion designer. I've been been working in the film and TV industry both in the UK and abroad for nearly two decades.
I'm an Adobe Certified Expert, Video Specialist and Instructor. I'm also one of the very few Maxon Certified Cinema 4D Trainers in the world.
I've taught and worked with some of the biggest names in the industry such as SKY, BBC, Sony Pictures, ITV, Google, Microsoft, to name a few.
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Reviews
By Fio Trethewey on 1/30/2025
I had a really great time with this course. I studied animation in 2011 and I needed a refresher on what AE could do after a long time away. Perfect! I think it would be great to add a transcript (or better subtitles) but otherwise, I think this was a very indepth look at AE and left feeling a lot more confident in my skill set!
By Maui Houn on 2/4/2024
clear and to the point. things i thought I knew i didn't. these small details definitely helps. I have slight adhd also and the pace in which its explained really allows me to keep up with the lessons with minimal rewind. I was really dreading learning about camera in 3d space but after his lesson on cameras, I no longer fear the complexity. It was explained to me in a very simple, easily digestible way.
By Kevin Darton on 8/4/2023
Such an easy to follow course which helped to demystify an often intimidating application and make it easy to understand and use thanks to plain english and step by step guidance. My After Effects knowledge and confidence has increased hugely after taking this course.
By NataliiaKhudoliei on 5/18/2023
The course is excellent; I love the way how information was given. Only one thing that I want to improve- please duplicate all buttons that you use on the screen.
By Jarrett Mayo on 10/21/2021
This course struck such a great balance between being in depth and thorough, and maintaining a good pacing. I had been using after effects for about 6 months before this and still learned a ton about how it functions
By Chloe Tangman on 10/22/2019
Tutor has a good work flow. Explanations are clear and concise. However, it really lacks an 'assignments section' after each major video so the student has more practice and does not just repeat what the tutor does. I gave it only 3 stars because in my opinion assignments are crucial when learning new things and also because I would have liked more interesting graphics to demonstrate the various facets of Ae.
By Christian Oette on 10/1/2019
Well explained with a good speed. It is easy to follow. I like the explanation of different methods to achieve the same goal. The course is created for total beginners. For me this was perfect. I miss some basic editing functions and a chapter about sound.
By Musaad Alharbi on 7/31/2019
Thank you for this, am enjoying it to the max. am working on After Effects for years but it's my first time to find someone show you everything from scratch, and let you really understand what you are doing. Very Clear - Very understandable - worth the Price 100%. if you want to learn After Effects, this is what you want to have. Stay Creative always :)
By Desiree Hart on 3/2/2019
This course by Ozgur Gorgun gave me a thorough understanding of After Effects. I've finally learned the basics that I had never quite grasped before, and I also learned many interesting advanced techniques. He's well prepared, organized, and uses compelling examples. I appreciate the instructor's style ... to-the-point without wasting time.
By Samuel Rolli on 2/7/2019
A very good Course for Beginners. After this course, I was able to work in After Effects. And even though I did not new anything perfectly, I knew how to get around it or how to find the right solution to my problem.
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Overall Score : 94 / 100












