5 Free Animation Online Classes to Learn After Effects From Scratch

Discover this popular software’s advantages and animate your best ideas

As a professional designer and illustrator, or if you wish to pursue a new career in animation, you’ll find a key ally in Adobe After Effects. This software is intuitive and perfect to create all kinds of animated projects, however big or small they might be.

Now animation and motion graphics experts share some tips to start using this program from scratch. To watch each class, just click on its red title.

Free class: Introduction to After Effects

As part of the Animated Collage with Adobe After Effects course, animator and illustrator Joseba Elorza addresses the very basics of After Effects. Learn basic concepts step by step, and start to interact with it right now by trying a simple bouncing animation effect.

Free class: Moving vectors in After Effects

Graphic designer and animator Pablo Cuello shows you some of the basic aspects of After Effects interface. Learn to locate and identify some of the most used tools and discover how to animate with the moving vectors method. This class is part of the Vectorial Animation Frame by Frame Style with After Effects course.

Free class: Counter Animation

As part of the Express Animation for Social Media with After Effects course, motion grapher Yimbo Escárrega will show you how to creare a counter. This is an easy way to edit an animate a graphic piece by using some user-friendly and simple expressions.

Free class: From Illustrator to After Effects

Join animator Andrea Gendusa to discover tow basic techniques to import some of your work done in Adobe Illustrator to After Effects. You’ll work with style frames to add incredible textures and effects and polish your animated piece. This class belongs to the 2D and 3D Animation with After Effects and Cinema 4D course.

Free class: Timing

This class is part of the Creating Loop Animation Stories course. Animator Pablo Cuello will teach you to identify and use some of the fundamental tools to create your very first frame-by-frame animation. Learn some of the key concepts of this animation style and what is the time frame in your software.

These classes will be open until February 22nd, 2021. If after that date you want to want to access the rest of the content, you can do so by signing up for each course.

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