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After Effects Apprentice Complete Bundle (16 courses with Chris and Trish Meyer)TRT:41:12:24 INSTRUCTOR:Meyer, Trish & Chris  After Effects Apprentice 16: Final Project (for CS6) TRT:03:31:42 LIMITED TIME OFFER: Get "AEA: Final Project #16 for CS6" FREE with the purchase of this bundle ($29.95 if purchased separately)! After Effects Apprentice 01: Pre-Roll (101) TRT:00:27:07  This short course is designed for users who have never opened Adobe After Effects before, or who have not used it for some time and need a refresher course on how it is laid out. Chris Meyer will take you on a whirlwind tour through the program, helping overcome the “blank canvas” fear that confronts many the first time they launch the program. It will serve as both an excellent introduction to the After Effects Apprentice lessons on Class on Demand, as well as a preliminary overview for any new user before launching into their first tutorial or class. Topics include: • Understanding the user interface
After Effects Apprentice 02: Basic Animation (101) TRT:02:14:34 Trish Meyer leads beginners through a gentle introduction to Adobe After Effects: from creating a new project and importing sources, through arranging and animating layers, applying effects, and creating variations, to rendering the final movie. However, this is no paint-by-numbers exercise – Trish lets you in on her mental process along the way, demonstrating how she makes creative decisions plus saves time through the use of keyboard shortcuts and smart working practices. Additional movies explain further details about how After Effects works under the hood. Her measured pace helps even those completely new to After Effects understand the program so that they can use it effectively on their own projects. Topics include:
• Starting a project from scratch
• Building a composition
• Arranging and transforming layers interactively and numerically
• Animating parameters including motion paths
• Applying and re-using effects
• Creating variations and rendering the final movie
• Importing layered Photoshop files
• Understanding alpha channels
• Avoiding common mistakes
After Effects Apprentice 03: Advanced Animation for Beginners (101) TRT:02:55:21 Chris Meyer helps beginning After Effects artists take their animations to the next level. Don't settle for mechanical movements, awkward timing, or puzzles that have you chasing your tail around the screen; Chris will show you how to refine your animations to create elegant, coordinated movements with the minimum number of keyframes – as well as slam-downs, whip pans, and other attention-getters. Additional movies challenge you to reverse-engineer existing animations, create variations on a theme, and master other parts of the program. Even though this course is designed for beginners, you will learn tricks that many experienced users are unaware of. Chris' friendly running commentary lets you in on his mental process as he works on an animation. Topics include:
• Understanding how keyframes work under the hood
• Controlling the Anchor Point to create more predictable animations
• Mastering the Graph Editor for the ultimate control over keyframes
• Animating parameters including motion paths
• Hand-drawing motion paths to simplify complex movements
• Applying and tweaking Motion Blur
• Using Hold keyframes
After Effects Apprentice 04: Layer Control - Editing, Blending, and Effecting (101) TRT:02:29:34 In this course, Chris Meyer focuses on ways to edit and enhance layers in After Effects – including looping, sequencing, and frame blending them; employing Blending Modes to create more interesting composites; and applying Effects, Presets, Behaviors, and Layer Styles. Through a series of Quizzler challenges and Idea Corner examples, Chris also shares alternative ways to employ modes, sequencing, and Adjustment Layers, while special sidebar movies cover the subjects of creating seamless loops, animating effects points, understanding pixel aspect ratios, and employing Brainstorm to explore the variety of different looks that effects can create. Chris also shares his favorite trick for enhancing boring footage, and demonstrates how to convert scans into moving sequences. Topics include: • Sliding, trimming, slip editing, and insert editing layers
After Effects Apprentice 05: Creating Transparency - Masks, Mattes, and Stencils (101) TRT:02:24:07 One of the keys to creating an interesting composite of multiple images is to make portions of those images transparent, so that you can see other images behind or through them. In this course, Chris Meyer demonstrates the most common techniques for adding this selective transparency to layers in After Effects: through the use of masking, track mattes, and stencils. A good amount of time is also spent showing how effects interact with these. In addition to explaining the tools and basic theory, Chris also demonstrates several practical applications for these techniques, including isolating objects, creating vignettes, and filling text with visual texture, plus shares ideas for crafting custom transitions and other treatments.
After Effects Apprentice 06: Type & Music (201) TRT:03:40:14 One of the cornerstones of motion graphics is creating and animating type. In this course, Trish Meyer will show you how to typeset titles professionally and create your own custom animations, as well as apply and modify the hundreds of text animation presets that After Effects ships with. Additionally, Chris Meyer will show you how to add audio to your projects, including spotting "hit points" to align your keyframes and video action.
After Effects Apprentice 07: Parenting (201) TRT:01:37:06 Parenting is a way to group multiple layers within the same composition inside After Effects. In this lesson, Chris Meyer shows how to set up a parenting chain, discusses what makes a good parent, and demonstrates several techniques using Parenting such as creating a title animation with a minimum number of keyframes, building a geometric construct, and bringing an anthropomorphic robot arm to life. Sidebar topics include avoiding a scaling gotcha with parenting, and creating abstract backgrounds using the Fractal Noise effect.
After Effects Apprentice 08: Nesting and Precomposing (201) TRT:02:22:31 In this course, Chris and Trish Meyer share two of the core secrets required to become an efficient After Effects user: understanding the Render Order (the internal order of operations After Effects uses when calculating masks, effects, transformation, track mattes, and layer styles), and the judicious use of multiple compositions where a composition may be "nested" into one or more other comps. This makes it easier to group layers, efficiently re-use a common element to quickly accommodate client changes, pan around large composites of multiple layers, and solve render order issues. By mastering these concepts, you can take control of what the program does and how it does it to achieve the design in your head, rather than compromising your ideas by just accepting what it gives you.
After Effects Apprentice 10: Time Games (201) TRT:00:59:04 In this breezy course, Chris Meyer demonstrates several ways to manipulate time in After Effects, including how to combine these tools with other tricks you've already learned in this series such as nesting compositions, expressions, and the Graph Editor. Along the way, he reveals several important yet somewhat hidden functions, such as the advanced composition setting that ensures you'll get predictable stop motion, the two different modes of the Frame Blending switch, and the mysterious Time Remap parameter that disappears if you don't have keyframing enabled for it. Although it may sound advanced (and parts of it is), these are all techniques you can easily master, and have a lot of fun with.
After Effects Apprentice 11: 3D Space (201) TRT:04:47:31 The core of this course is a beginner-level introduction to 3D space inside Adobe After Effects. If you've never worked in 3D before, Chris and Trish Meyer build up your knowledge base step-by-step explaining what's different between 2D and 3D, then moving through cameras and lights – including how to build camera rigs and manage shadows. Once you've become familiar with those bedrock skills, Chris then demonstrates several different workflows for creating 3D objects inside Adobe Photoshop and importing them in After Effects. A set of sidebar movies at the end share additional tips on the difference between 3D rotation and orientation, using the different Axis Modes, and how to maintain maximum quality in 3D. As always, Chris and Trish put parameters and techniques in a real-world context, explaining what settings they use and why.
After Effects Apprentice 09: Expressions (301) TRT:01:35:30 One of the most powerful but underused features in After Effects is Expressions: The ability to define how a parameter animates using instructions such as "wiggle" compared to explicitly keyframing every value. One of its strengths is the ability to have multiple parameters and layers follow the lead of a master layer or controller effect, making it much easier to coordinate complex animations and quickly accommodate client changes. In this gentle introduction, Chris Meyer shows you how to let After Effects do most of the work while creating simple but very useful expressions that you can put to work on a wide variety of jobs. After Effects Apprentice 12: Tracking and Keying (301) TRT:03:18:50 Motion tracking: The ability to follow the location of an object in a piece of footage, and use this information to stabilize that shot or animate other layers. Color keying: The ability to make a solid color background transparent so that you can replace it with a new image. Both of these are core visual effects tasks you need to learn if you want to take your After Effects skills to the next level. In this course, Chris Meyer shows you how to use the motion tracker and stabilizer built into After Effects, with loads of advice on how to handle a variety of shots. He also gives a quick tour of the third-party software mocha that is bundled with After Effects. On the keying front, Chris demonstrates the basic workflow for The Foundry's Keylight, which is also bundled with After Effects. By the end of this course, you will be combining these two skills to track greenscreen shot with a handheld camera, and replace its background. Practice is the secret to mastering these skills, but getting to look over someone else's shoulder as they perform these tasks is a great way to jump-start your learning curve.
After Effects Apprentice 13: Paint, Puppet, and More (301) TRT:03:12:16 In this lesson, Trish and Chris Meyer introduce you to a series of creative tools inside After Effects: Paint, Puppet, Brainstorm, and Cartoon. The centerpiece is Paint, where Trish will demonstrate how to use the Brush, Eraser, and Clone Stamp tools to draw on a layer, remove portions of it, or repeat elements around a composition. These can be used for artistic purposes as well as to repair problem areas in footage. Chris then shows off the Puppet tools for distorting layers, Brainstorm to break through creative blocks, and the Cartoon effect to lend an illustrative look to live footage or 3D renders. After Effects Apprentice 14: Shape Layers (301) TRT:02:11:45 Shape Layers provide the ability to create and animate vector-based artwork directly inside After Effects. These shapes may be as simple as lines and lower third bars, or as complex as a cartoon character. In this lesson, Chris Meyer walks you through creating shape paths, applying shape effects, and reordering shape operators to get the desired result. After demonstrating the basics, Chris then leads you through a series of exercises using shape layers to create common motion graphics elements. After Effects Apprentice 15: Final Project (301) TRT:03:25:12
AE Apprentice Complete Bundle (CS5 & CS6)$199.95 After Effects Apprentice 101 (with Chris & Trish Meyer)TRT:10:28:19 INSTRUCTOR:Meyer, Trish & Chris After Effects Apprentice 01: Pre-Roll TRT:00:27:07 This short course is designed for users who have never opened Adobe After Effects before, or who have not used it for some time and need a refresher course on how it is laid out. Chris Meyer will take you on a whirlwind tour through the program, helping overcome the “blank canvas” fear that confronts many the first time they launch the program. It will serve as both an excellent introduction to the After Effects Apprentice lessons on Class on Demand, as well as a preliminary overview for any new user before launching into their first tutorial or class. Topics include: • Understanding the user interface
After Effects Apprentice 02: Basic Animation TRT:02:14:34 Trish Meyer leads beginners through a gentle introduction to Adobe After Effects: from creating a new project and importing sources, through arranging and animating layers, applying effects, and creating variations, to rendering the final movie. However, this is no paint-by-numbers exercise – Trish lets you in on her mental process along the way, demonstrating how she makes creative decisions plus saves time through the use of keyboard shortcuts and smart working practices. Additional movies explain further details about how After Effects works under the hood. Her measured pace helps even those completely new to After Effects understand the program so that they can use it effectively on their own projects. Topics include:
• Starting a project from scratch
• Building a composition
• Arranging and transforming layers interactively and numerically
• Animating parameters including motion paths
• Applying and re-using effects
• Creating variations and rendering the final movie
• Importing layered Photoshop files
• Understanding alpha channels
• Avoiding common mistakes
After Effects Apprentice 03: Advanced Animation for Beginners TRT:02:52:57 Chris Meyer helps beginning After Effects artists take their animations to the next level. Don't settle for mechanical movements, awkward timing, or puzzles that have you chasing your tail around the screen; Chris will show you how to refine your animations to create elegant, coordinated movements with the minimum number of keyframes – as well as slam-downs, whip pans, and other attention-getters. Additional movies challenge you to reverse-engineer existing animations, create variations on a theme, and master other parts of the program. Even though this course is designed for beginners, you will learn tricks that many experienced users are unaware of. Chris' friendly running commentary lets you in on his mental process as he works on an animation. Topics include:
• Understanding how keyframes work under the hood
• Controlling the Anchor Point to create more predictable animations
• Mastering the Graph Editor for the ultimate control over keyframes
• Animating parameters including motion paths
• Hand-drawing motion paths to simplify complex movements
• Applying and tweaking Motion Blur
• Using Hold keyframes
After Effects Apprentice 04: Layer Control - Editing, Blending, and Effecting TRT:02:29:34 In this course, Chris Meyer focuses on ways to edit and enhance layers in After Effects – including looping, sequencing, and frame blending them; employing Blending Modes to create more interesting composites; and applying Effects, Presets, Behaviors, and Layer Styles. Through a series of Quizzler challenges and Idea Corner examples, Chris also shares alternative ways to employ modes, sequencing, and Adjustment Layers, while special sidebar movies cover the subjects of creating seamless loops, animating effects points, understanding pixel aspect ratios, and employing Brainstorm to explore the variety of different looks that effects can create. Chris also shares his favorite trick for enhancing boring footage, and demonstrates how to convert scans into moving sequences. Topics include: • Sliding, trimming, slip editing, and insert editing layers
After Effects Apprentice 05: Creating Transparency - Masks, Mattes, and Stencils TRT:02:24:07 One of the keys to creating an interesting composite of multiple images is to make portions of those images transparent, so that you can see other images behind or through them. In this course, Chris Meyer demonstrates the most common techniques for adding this selective transparency to layers in After Effects: through the use of masking, track mattes, and stencils. A good amount of time is also spent showing how effects interact with these. In addition to explaining the tools and basic theory, Chris also demonstrates several practical applications for these techniques, including isolating objects, creating vignettes, and filling text with visual texture, plus shares ideas for crafting custom transitions and other treatments.
AE Apprentice 101 (CS5 & CS6)$79.95After Effects Apprentice 201 (with Chris & Trish Meyer)TRT:13:26:26 INSTRUCTOR:Meyer, Trish & Chris After Effects Apprentice 06: Type & Music TRT:03:40:14 One of the cornerstones of motion graphics is creating and animating type. In this course, Trish Meyer will show you how to typeset titles professionally and create your own custom animations, as well as apply and modify the hundreds of text animation presets that After Effects ships with. Additionally, Chris Meyer will show you how to add audio to your projects, including spotting "hit points" to align your keyframes and video action.
After Effects Apprentice 07: Parenting TRT:01:37:06 Parenting is a way to group multiple layers within the same composition inside After Effects. In this lesson, Chris Meyer shows how to set up a parenting chain, discusses what makes a good parent, and demonstrates several techniques using Parenting such as creating a title animation with a minimum number of keyframes, building a geometric construct, and bringing an anthropomorphic robot arm to life. Sidebar topics include avoiding a scaling gotcha with parenting, and creating abstract backgrounds using the Fractal Noise effect.
After Effects Apprentice 08: Nesting and Precomposing TRT:02:22:31 In this course, Chris and Trish Meyer share two of the core secrets required to become an efficient After Effects user: understanding the Render Order (the internal order of operations After Effects uses when calculating masks, effects, transformation, track mattes, and layer styles), and the judicious use of multiple compositions where a composition may be "nested" into one or more other comps. This makes it easier to group layers, efficiently re-use a common element to quickly accommodate client changes, pan around large composites of multiple layers, and solve render order issues. By mastering these concepts, you can take control of what the program does and how it does it to achieve the design in your head, rather than compromising your ideas by just accepting what it gives you.
After Effects Apprentice 10: Time Games TRT:00:59:04 In this breezy course, Chris Meyer demonstrates several ways to manipulate time in After Effects, including how to combine these tools with other tricks you've already learned in this series such as nesting compositions, expressions, and the Graph Editor. Along the way, he reveals several important yet somewhat hidden functions, such as the advanced composition setting that ensures you'll get predictable stop motion, the two different modes of the Frame Blending switch, and the mysterious Time Remap parameter that disappears if you don't have keyframing enabled for it. Although it may sound advanced (and parts of it is), these are all techniques you can easily master, and have a lot of fun with.
After Effects Apprentice 11: 3D Space TRT:04:47:31 The core of this course is a beginner-level introduction to 3D space inside Adobe After Effects. If you've never worked in 3D before, Chris and Trish Meyer build up your knowledge base step-by-step explaining what's different between 2D and 3D, then moving through cameras and lights – including how to build camera rigs and manage shadows. Once you've become familiar with those bedrock skills, Chris then demonstrates several different workflows for creating 3D objects inside Adobe Photoshop and importing them in After Effects. A set of sidebar movies at the end share additional tips on the difference between 3D rotation and orientation, using the different Axis Modes, and how to maintain maximum quality in 3D. As always, Chris and Trish put parameters and techniques in a real-world context, explaining what settings they use and why.
AE Apprentice 201 (CS5 & CS6)$79.95After Effects Apprentice 301 (with Chris & Trish Meyer)TRT:13:43:33 INSTRUCTOR:Meyer, Trish & Chris After Effects Apprentice 09: Expressions TRT:01:35:30 One of the most powerful but underused features in After Effects is Expressions: The ability to define how a parameter animates using instructions such as "wiggle" compared to explicitly keyframing every value. One of its strengths is the ability to have multiple parameters and layers follow the lead of a master layer or controller effect, making it much easier to coordinate complex animations and quickly accommodate client changes. In this gentle introduction, Chris Meyer shows you how to let After Effects do most of the work while creating simple but very useful expressions that you can put to work on a wide variety of jobs. After Effects Apprentice 12: Tracking and Keying TRT:03:18:50 Motion tracking: The ability to follow the location of an object in a piece of footage, and use this information to stabilize that shot or animate other layers. Color keying: The ability to make a solid color background transparent so that you can replace it with a new image. Both of these are core visual effects tasks you need to learn if you want to take your After Effects skills to the next level. In this course, Chris Meyer shows you how to use the motion tracker and stabilizer built into After Effects, with loads of advice on how to handle a variety of shots. He also gives a quick tour of the third-party software mocha that is bundled with After Effects. On the keying front, Chris demonstrates the basic workflow for The Foundry's Keylight, which is also bundled with After Effects. By the end of this course, you will be combining these two skills to track greenscreen shot with a handheld camera, and replace its background. Practice is the secret to mastering these skills, but getting to look over someone else's shoulder as they perform these tasks is a great way to jump-start your learning curve.
After Effects Apprentice 13: Paint, Puppet, and More TRT:03:12:16 In this lesson, Trish and Chris Meyer introduce you to a series of creative tools inside After Effects: Paint, Puppet, Brainstorm, and Cartoon. The centerpiece is Paint, where Trish will demonstrate how to use the Brush, Eraser, and Clone Stamp tools to draw on a layer, remove portions of it, or repeat elements around a composition. These can be used for artistic purposes as well as to repair problem areas in footage. Chris then shows off the Puppet tools for distorting layers, Brainstorm to break through creative blocks, and the Cartoon effect to lend an illustrative look to live footage or 3D renders. After Effects Apprentice 14: Shape Layers TRT:02:11:45 Shape Layers provide the ability to create and animate vector-based artwork directly inside After Effects. These shapes may be as simple as lines and lower third bars, or as complex as a cartoon character. In this lesson, Chris Meyer walks you through creating shape paths, applying shape effects, and reordering shape operators to get the desired result. After demonstrating the basics, Chris then leads you through a series of exercises using shape layers to create common motion graphics elements. After Effects Apprentice 15: Final Project TRT:03:25:12
AE Apprentice 301 (CS5 & CS6)$79.95After Effects Apprentice 16: Final Project for CS6TRT:3:31:42 INSTRUCTOR:Meyer, Trish & Chris  After Effects Apprentice 16: Final Project for CS6 TRT:03:31:42 AE Apprentice 16: Final Project (CS5 & CS6)$29.95After Effects CS5.5 and CS6 New Creative Techniques (with Chris & Trish Meyer)TRT:4:15:12 INSTRUCTOR:Meyer, Trish & Chris CS6 Creative Techniques TRT:02:16:10 Get up to speed quickly with the new features in After Effects CS6. Join veteran After Effects user Chris Meyer as he explores the key enhancements to this industry standard visual effects and motion graphics software. CS5 and 5.5 Creative Techniques TRT:01:59:02 Chris Meyer, one of the world's foremost After Effects experts, teaches you how to take advantage of his favorite features from the CS5.5 release in this training series. AE CS5.5 & CS6 New Creative Techniques$11.95 |
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