Cinema 4D and After Effects Training

Curriculum:

Getting to Know the Workflow

• Creating a project and importing footage
  
• Creating a composition and arranging layers
  
• Adding effects and modifying layer properties
  
• Animating the composition
  
• Previewing your work
  
• Optimizing performance in After Effects
  
• Rendering and exporting your composition
  
• Customizing workspaces
  
• Controlling the brightness of the user interface
  
• Finding resources for using After Effects

Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
  
• Creating a new composition
  
• Working with imported Illustrator layers
  
• Applying effects to a layer
  
• Applying an animation preset
  
• Previewing the effects
  
• Adding transparency
  
• Rendering the composition

Animating Text

• About text layers
  
• Creating and formatting point text
  
• Using a text animation preset
  
• Animating with scale keyframes
  
• Animating using parenting
  
• Animating imported Photoshop text
  
• Animating text using a path animation preset
  
• Animating type tracking
  
• Animating text opacity
  
• Using a text animator group
  
• Cleaning up the path animation 
  
• Animating a nontext layer along a motion path
  
• Adding motion blur

Working with Shape Layers

• Adding a shape layer
• Creating custom shapes
• Creating stars
• Positioning layers with snapping
• Incorporating video and audio layers
• Applying a Cartoon effect
• Adding a title bar
• Using Brainstorm to experiment

Animating a Multimedia  

• Presentation
• Animating the scenery using parenting
• Adjusting an anchor point
• Masking video using vector shapes
• Keyframing a motion path
• Animating additional elements
• Applying an effect
• Creating an animated slide show
• Adding an audio track
• Zooming in for a final close-up

Animating Layers

• Simulating lighting changes
• Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
• Animating movement in the scenery
• Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
• Animating the shadows
• Adding a lens flare effect
• Animating the clock
• Retiming the composition

Working with Masks

• About masks
  
• Getting started 
  
• Creating a mask with the Pen tool
  
• Editing a mask
  
• Feathering the edges of a mask
  
• Replacing the content of the mask
  
• Adding a reflection
  
• Creating a vignette
  
• Adjusting the color

Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools 

• About the Puppet tools
  
• Adding Deform pins
  
• Defining areas of overlap
  
• Stiffening an area
  
• Animating pin positions
  
• Recording animation

Using the Roto Brush Tool

• About rotoscoping
• Getting started
• Creating a segmentation boundary
• Fine-tuning the matte
• Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
• Changing the background
• Adding animated text
• Outputting your project

Performing Color Correction

• Adjusting color balance
  
• Replacing the background
  
• Removing unwanted elements
  
• Correcting a range of colors
  
• Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect

Using 3D Features

• Creating 3D Text
  
• Using 3D Views
  
• Importing a background 
  
• Adding 3D Lights
  
• Adding a camera
  
• Repositioning layers
  
• Adding a text layer
  
• Working with Cinema 4D Lite

Working with the 3D Camera Tracker

• About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
  
• Getting started
  
• Tracking the footage
  
• Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
  
• Creating realistic shadows
  
• Adding ambient light
  
• Creating additional text elements
  
• Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
  
• Animating the text
  
• Adjusting the camera’s depth of field
  
• Rendering the composition

Advanced Editing Techniques

• Using Warp Stabilizer VFX
  
• Using single-point motion tracking
  
• Using multipoint tracking
  
• Creating a particle simulation
  
• Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect

Rendering and Outputting

• Creating templates for the Render Queue
• Exporting using the Render Queue
• Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder